Rehberger v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal from a final judgment, adverse to the department, based upon the verdict of a jury.

By its assignment of errors, the appellant seems to raise but two questions, i. e., the sufficiency of the evidence and the amount of the attorney’s fees properly allowable, but in tbe briefs and argument certain instructions to tbe jury are criticized, and we shall therefore consider them.

It appears that respondent, while so employed as to come under the workmen’s compensation act, in September, 1927, suffered an injury which resulted in the amputation of his right leg below the knee at about…