Department of Labor & Industries v. Cook

— The only question before us in this case is whether the department of labor and industries has the right to appeal to the superior court from an adverse decision of the board of industrial insurance appeals.

On June 20, 1949, the department paid Eula A. Cook the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars, as a lump sum settlement of a claim for permanent total disability. Nearly a year later, on May 8, 1950, Cook disputed the department’s calculation of the settlement, and requested an additional three hundred dollars. The department denied his request, and Cook appealed to the board of industrial…