Ames v. Department of Labor & Industries

(dissenting) — As I see it, this decision proscribes traumatic neurasthenia as a compensable injury under • the industrial insurance act, notwithstanding the court has long recognized the condition as an injury for which alone substantial damages should be allowed. Edwards v. Seattle etc. R. Co., 62 Wash. 77, 113 Pac. 563; Eoff v. Spokane etc. R. Co., 70 Wash. 270, 126 Pac. 533; Pierce v. Seattle Electric Co., 78 Wash. 167, 138 Pac. 666; Mickelson v. Fischer, 81 Wash. 423, 142 Pac. 1160; Carton v. Eyres & Seattle Drayage Co., 117 Wash. 536, 201 Pac. 737.

That claimant is suffering from what we…