State ex rel. Hawksworth v. Clifford

Tbis matter is here upon application for a writ of mandamus. George Hawksworth, tbe husband of relator, was killed on July 9, 1923, while engaged in extra-hazardous work in tbis state. Thereafter his widow applied for compensation under onr workmen’s compensation act. Tbe department allowed *104her fifty per cent of the compensation which would ordinarily he allowed under the act to a resident of the state. At the time of his death, both Mr. Hawksworth and the relator, his widow, were subjects of Great Britain and residents of Vancouver, B. C. Section 7684, Rem. Comp. Stat. [P. C. § 3478], being…