Machenheimer v. Department of Labor & Industries

— On December 10, 1921, while riding-on one of the logging- trains belonging to the Port Discovery Bay Logging Company, Henry Machenheimer was killed, and his widow, the respondent, filed a claim for compensation with the state department of labor and industries against the industrial compensation *260fund. The claim was rejected by the department on the basis that Machenheimer was an independent contractor, and not a workman as the term is defined in the workmen’s compensation act. An appeal was taken from the decision of the department to the superior court of Clallam county, where the injury…