Kline v. Industrial Insurance Commission

Citations

• 101 Wash. 365
• 172 P. 343
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 837

Syllabus

<p>■ Master and Servant-—Injury to'Servant—Compensation Act-^Pebmanent Partial Disability—Conclusiveness oe Judgment. Under Rem. Code, § 6604-5, providing that compensation under the workmen’s compensation act shall he made in a lump sum for “permanent partial disability,” which is defined as the loss of certain members “or any other injury known in surgery to be permanent partial disability,” the industrial insurance commission cannot, after a judgment of the superior court has determined that an injury to an employee suffering from hernia has resulted in “permanent partial disability,” refuse to make compensation in a lump sum because of its promulgated rules regarding hernia, which required the injured employee to submit to an’operation and take pay for loss of time only.</p>