Claim for Compensation of Ikoma v. Oahu Sugar Co.

Citations

• 23 Haw. 291
• 1916 Haw. LEXIS 12

Syllabus

<p>Statutes — Workmen’s Compensation Act — construction.</p> <p>One purpose of the Workmen’s Compensation Act is to provide compensation to a workman for injuries received while working in the business of the owner or operator thereof, from such owner or operator, regardless of questions of negligence, whether the injured workman is employed directly by the owner or operator of the business, or indirectly through a contractor, and the act must be broadly and liberally construed in order to effectuate such purpose.</p> <p>Same — same—same.</p> <p>A sugar company let a contract to H to build a road-bed on its plantation to be used in its business, furnishing H with camps, tools and appliances, the work to be to the satisfaction of the company’s engineer; the claimant, a workman employed by H who alone had the right to discharge him, was injured while working on the road-bed and filed with the industrial accident board his claim for compensation against the company and H; the question of the liability of the company was reserved to this court: Held, that the company is liable, it being an employer of claimant within the language and intent of the act.</p>