Cooper v. Department of Labor & Industries

This appeal is from a judgment disallowing appellant’s claim for a pension.

Appellant’s husband, John M. Cooper, who will be designated as “decedent,” had been in the employ of the Mason County Logging Company for more than twenty-five years, and was engaged by that company at the time of the alleged accident in the capacity of a donkey engineer. On Monday, April 8, 1935, while engaged in the discharge of his duties in an admittedly extrahazardous employment, decedent was struck with a donkey line across the back just below the shoulders. As a result, he suffered a small abrasion over his…