Replogle v. Seattle School District No. 1

Citations

• 84 Wash. 581
• 147 P. 196
• 1915 Wash. LEXIS 811

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Injuries to Servant — Workmen’s Compensation Act — Civil Action. A person whose usual or regular employment, that of a truck driver and storekeeper’s helper, was not extra-hazardous, but whose duty it was when called upon, to assist and work under the direction of an electrician in the installation of electric motors, classed as an extra-hazardous employment in the workmen’s compensation act (3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6604-4), is subject to the provisions of that act, while engaged in such extra-hazardous work; and hence cannot maintain an action for personal injuries, against his employer who had fully complied with the act, in view of Id., § 6604-1, withdrawing all phases of the subject from private controversy, and abolishing all civil causes of action for personal injuries sustained in extra-hazardous employment, where the employer had complied with the act.</p>