Maddox v. Industrial Insurance Commission

— The plaintiff, Maddox, commenced

this action in the superior court for Pierce county by summons and complaint as an ordinary action, seeking a judgment directing the industrial insurance commission to reclassify his injury, received in an extra-hazardous occupation, as one of total disability, and to make him an award accordingly; his injury having theretofore been classified by the commission as one of lesser degree and he having been awarded compensation accordingly. The commission demurred to plaintiff’s complaint upon the ground, among others, of want of jurisdiction in the superior…