Anderson v. Industrial Insurance Commission

Citations

• 116 Wash. 421
• 199 P. 747
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 857

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant (121-2)—Workmen's Compensation—Proximate Cause of Death—Evidence—Sufficiency. A widow is entitled to compensation under the workmen’s compensation act, where a cut in the foot received by a workman in an extra-hazardous occupation bled profusely, leaving him in a weakened and fainting condition, and after removal to his home, twelve miles distant, in cold and inclement weather, pneumonia developed from which he died; the imprudence of the deceased in exposing himself to the weather in his weakened condition not barring her right, if the axe wound was the proximate cause which directly set in motion a train of events resulting in death (Mackintosh, J., dissents).</p>