Merritt v. Department of Labor & Industries

This case arises out of a claim for a pension filed with the department of labor and industries by the surviving widow of Caleb H. Merritt. The claim was rejected by the supervisor of industrial insurance, and the supervisor’s action was sustained by the board of industrial insurance appeals. The case next came before the superior court, where, after a trial by the court without a jury, the order of the board was reversed. The department and the employer, Bay City Lumber Company, have appealed to this court.

Merritt was sixty-eight years old at the time of his death on November 25, 1949. He…