Parks v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal by a workman from a judgment entered on a jury verdict sustaining the ruling of the board of industrial insurance appeals denying a claim for aggravation.

Plaintiff sustained an industrial injury on November 30, 1945. His claim, based on that injury, was closed on January 23,1946. In 1947, the department reopened his claim, and on May 24, 1948, it was closed with a permanent partial disability award of twenty-five per cent of the maximum allowed for unspecified disability. Plaintiff again applied to reopen his claim for aggravation on April 17, 1951. The department, in June…