Yeck v. Department of Labor & Industries

Plaintiff’s husband was injured on November 12, 1942, while engaged in an extrahazardous occupation. He died on December 4, 1942.

Laws of 1941, chapter 209, p. 624, § 1 (Rem. Supp. 1941, § 7679 [P.P.C. § 705-1]), went into effect on December 3, 1942. This act relates to the schedule of awards to be allowed as industrial compensation and has particular reference under our present inquiry to the awards allowable to widows of deceased workmen killed in extrahazardous employment. After the enactment of this law, which was an amendment to the workmen’s compensation act, a petition for referendum…