Ek v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal from a judgment of the superior court sustaining the rejection by the department of a claim for a widow’s pension under the industrial insurance act.

The facts found and the conclusions drawn by the trial court are sufficiently shown by the following excerpts from the court’s findings of fact and conclusions of law:

‘ ‘ That on the 22nd day of May, 1931, the said Charles Ek, was employed by Tom Drylie at a daily wage to dig a cess-pool and connect a sewer drain from an old cess-pool to the new one; that the said Tom Drylie was the sole owner of the property on which the work…