Nash v. Department of Labor & Industries

The Department of Labor and Industries appeals from a judgment on a verdict increasing a permanent, partial disability award of 45 per cent to a pension for permanent and total disability.

The issues decided on appeal are whether there was a legally sufficient rating of disability in the board record to support an increased award, whether the court should have instructed the jury relating to the action of a hearing examiner 'and whether an instruction explaining the nature of the act should have been given.

Claimant injured his low back on July 14, 1959, while at work as a carpenter’s helper.…