Hand v. Greyhound Corp.

(dissenting) — The majority admit that § 2, Laws of 1939, chapter 41, p. 121 [cf. RCW 51.24.010], may be arbitrary and unreasonable under the results reached in Latimer v. Western Machinery Exchange, 42 Wn. (2d) 756, 259 P. (2d) 623, and Jewett v. Kerwood, 43 Wn. (2d) 691, 263 P. (2d) 830, but decline to declare the statute invalid because they conclude that such an attack upon the statute is hypothetical and not necessarily pertinent to the instant case.

In the Jewett case, we held that an employer driving his own truck in an extrahazardous occupation who negligently injured an employee…