Zankich v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court reversing an order of the joint board of the department of labor and industries and directing the department to reclassify a workman’s claim for compensation as one of total and permanent disability.

The respondent workman was, at the time of receiving the injury complained of, about fifty-seven years of ag'e. He had been employed for many years as a bucker in various logging camps in western Washington. On May 13,1932, he was working as a fireman for Schafer Bros. Logging Company at its camp near Aberdeen. His claim is that, while…