Freeman v. Rinkel

Quaere: Can an elective adoption workman under the workmen’s compensation act, injured in the course of his employment, maintain a common-law action for negligence against a defendant who, at the time of the injury, is an employer under the act and is engaged in extrahazardous employment as defined by the act?

Answer: The elective adoption workman cannot maintain such an action.

Facts Which Raise The Issue: C. E. Freeman, office manager of W. P. Fuller & Co., who came under the workmen’s compensation act by virtue of the elective adoption section, was driving an automobile in the course of…