Smith v. Department of Labor & Industries

W. B. Smith, age sixty-eight years, a sufferer from chronic myocarditis, died June 21, 1933, while employed as a teamster by a firm of contractors engaged in road construction. Alleging that her husband’s death was caused by the exertion incident to driving and loading and helping to unload scrapers which were used in moving earth, the widow of the deceased filed a claim with the department of labor and industries for compensation. On the ground that the death of the claimant’s husband was not the result of an injury as defined by the workmen’s compensation act, the claim was denied by the…