Kendall v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal by the state department of labor and industries from a judgment of the superior court for Pierce county, rendered upon a verdict of a jury directing the awarding of compensation to respondent, Mrs. Kendall, for the death of her husband, resulting, as she claims, from an injury occurring to him while he was engaged in an extra hazardous employment at the plant of his employer. The trial and disposition of the case in the superior court was upon an appeal taken by Mrs. Kendall from the rejection by the department of her claim for compensation.

The only contention here made in…