Miller v. Union Mill Co.

Citations

• 45 Wash. 199
• 88 P. 130
• 1907 Wash. LEXIS 443

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Assumption of Risks — Violation of Statutory Duty — Repeal of Statute — Retroactive Operation. The factory act of 1903, which required employers to safeguard dangerous machinery and imposed a penalty for failure so to do, having deprived the master of the defense of assumption of risks, the repeal of the act in 1905, did not operate retroactively, or affect causes of action that arose under the Law of 1903 prior to its repeal.</p>