Welden v. Skinner & Eddy Corp.

Citations

• 103 Wash. 243
• 174 P. 452
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1069

Syllabus

<p>Master and Servant — Relation oe Parties — Independent Contractors — Workmen’s Compensation Act. Constructing engineers, supervising the work of putting up buildings on a percentage basis, under a contract whereby they had no money invested and assumed no liability on contracts or pay-rolls in their name, although they employed laborers and paid them with the owner’s money, are agents and employees and not independent contractors, so that the laborers were servants of the owners, within the industrial insurance act, Rem. Code, § 6604-1 et seg., and not entitled to maintain actions at law for personal injuries at the plant.</p> <p>Same — Workmen’s Compensation — Extra Hazardous Work — Employment at “Plant.” A carpenter on the construction of a shipbuilding plant who, on his way to the toilet, passed near a galvanizing tank in the vicinity of his work when the tank exploded, is engaged in an “extra hazardous” employment within the industrial insurance act, and was injured at the employer’s plant in the course of his employment.</p>