Petersen v. Department of Labor & Industries

This appeal is from a judgment for the department of labor and industries entered on a motion for nonsuit at the close of claimant’s case upon his appeal to the superior court.

On January 26, 1934, appellant, a logger, scratched his left hand, which subsequently became infected. He consulted Dr. H. L. Kennedy, of Shelton, who hospitalized him and treated the infection, which had spread to his forearm. The department paid him time loss, and his claim was closed without disability award February 18, 1934, when he returned to work. At this time, he did not have neuritis.

For the next twelve years,…