Case Name: Blanco Delpach, Appellant, v. E. S. Gill, as Supervisor of Industrial Insurance, Respondent
Court: Washington Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Washington
Decision Date: 1923-06-22
Citations: 125 Wash. 699
Docket Number: No. 17950
Parties: Blanco Delpach, Appellant, v. E. S. Gill, as Supervisor of Industrial Insurance, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Washington Reports
Volume: 125
Pages: 699–700

Head Matter:
[No. 17950.
Department One.
June 22, 1923.]
Blanco Delpach, Appellant, v. E. S. Gill, as Supervisor of Industrial Insurance, Respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Thurston county, Wright, J., entered November 1, 1922, dismissing an action to compel the payment of compensation under the industrial insurance act, tried to the court.
Reversed.
Wesley Lloyd, for appellant.
The Attorney General and John H. Dunbar, Assistant, for respondent.
Reported in 216 Pac. 21.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This case presents but a question of fact; i. e., whether the appellant, who had been classified as a temporarily disabled workman, had received notice from the department of labor and industries of a change in his classification, under the provisions of § 7697, Rem. Comp. Stat. [P. C. § 3488], calling for the rendition of a decision and a "communication thereof to the person affected thereby." We are satisfied from an examination of the testimony (consisting largely of correspondence between the industrial insurance department and the attorney for the appellant) that no notification such as is contemplated by the statute has ever been given to appellant. The judgment of the lower court, therefore, was in error, and it is reversed and judgment is now entered directing the department to. pay to the appellant the compensation as fixed by the order of the commission in October, 1921, from the date of the last payment to the date of the commencement of this action.