Gowey v. Seattle Lighting Co.

Citations

• 108 Wash. 479
• 184 P. 339
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 887

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant (20-1)—Workmen’s Compensation Act — “Workshop”—-Statutes. A gas company’s» general office for clerical work in which a clerk operated a power-driven machine to make zinc plates or stencils for printing gas bills is a “factory” or workshop, within the meaning of the workmen’s compensation act, Rem. Code, §§ 6604-3, 6604-4, precluding actions for personal injuries by employees.</p> <p>Same (20-1)—Extra Hazardous Employment—Operating Stencil Imprintor. The operation of a power-driven machine to make zinc plates or stencils for printing gas bills, by a woman clerk employed in the general office at clerical work for the larger part of the time, is “extra hazardous,” within the workmen’s compensation act, Rem. Code, §§ 6604-3, 6604-4, precluding actions for personal injuries by employees: and it is immaterial that, when the machine was in perfect order, injury was practically impossible.</p> <p>Same (121-2)—Workmen’s Compensation Act—Remedies—Statutes—Amendment. Laws 1917, p. 487, amending Rem. Code, § 6604-8, relating to employers who are in default in contributing to the accident fund, does not preserve to the injured workman a right of action against such an employer.</p>