Whipple v. Industrial Insurance Commission

Citations

• 116 Wash. 341
• 199 P. 455
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 837

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant (121-2)—Workmen’s Compensation—Remedies—Appeal—Review. Under Rem. Code, §§ 6604-5, 6604-20, an award by the industrial insurance commission for an- injury, properly classified as “permanent partial disability” not being subject to review by the courts, except for arbitrary or capricious action on its part, an award of $400 will not be disturbed where it appears the commission acted upon the testimony of competent physicians, some of them considering plaintiff’s injury to be very severe and probably lasting, while others concluded that his injury was not so severe.</p>