Cox v. Sanitarium Co.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment of involuntary nonsuit which terminated an action, based upon charges of negligence, in which the relationship of the parties at the time of the injury was that of employee and employer.

The defendant operates a sanitarium in Portland in which it cares for the insane of Alaska. A laundry of a non-commercial character constitutes a part of the sanitarium and in it the work is performed by patients as a phase of their therapy. The plaintiff, as the defendant’s employee, supervised the women patients in the laundry and occasionally operated some…