Peet v. Mills

Citations

• 76 Wash. 437
• 136 P. 685
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1834

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injuries — Remedies — Workmen’s Compensation Law. Tbe workmen’s compensation act, Laws 1911, p. 345 (3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6604-1 et seq.), reciting in § 1 that the common law system of actions by employees against employers for personal injuries is inconsistent with modern industrial conditions, and declaring the policy of the state to withdraw all phases of the premises from private controversy, and to that end abolishing all civil actions for personal injuries, to the exclusion of every other remedy except as in the act provided, in connection with § 5, providing a schedule of awards that injured workmen shall recover in lieu of “any and all rights of action, whatsoever against any person whomsoever” must be liberally construed as a remedial statute to further the legislative intention to make the industry bear the burden of injuries; and is not confined to the abolishment of-rights of action by injured workmen against the employer, but extends to actions against third persons whose negligence caused injuries to workmen while engaged in their employment.</p> <p>Statutes — Title and Subject. The title of the workmen’s compensation act, Laws 1911, p. 345 (3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6604-1 et seq.), “relating to the compensation of injured workmen” and “abolishing the doctrine of negligence as a ground for the recovery of damages against employers” is broad enough to embrace provisions abolishing all rights of civil action for such injuries, whether against employers or third persons.</p>