Talbot v. Industrial Insurance Commission

Citations

• 108 Wash. 231
• 183 P. 84
• 1919 Wash. LEXIS 845

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant (121-2)—Injuries to Servant—Remedies Under Workmen’s Compensation Act—Retroactive Effect. Laws of 1917, p. 76, amending the workmen’s compensation act and providing that, if the injury renders the workman so helpless as to require the services of a constant attendant, the monthly payment shall he increased twenty dollars, applies from the date of the passage of the act to injuries that occurred previously; and to so apply it does not give the act a retroactive effect contrary to the intention of the legislature.</p>