Craine v. Department of Labor & Industries

(concurring) — I concur with the majority, but for reasons somewhat different from those expressed in the majority opinion.

As stated in Thurston County Chapter, American Nat. Red Cross v. Department of Labor & Industries, 166 Wash. 488, 7 P. (2d) 577, the workmen’s compensation act repeatedly uses the word “industries,” and the whole theory of that act is to the effect that it was intended to apply to a trade or business which is operated for profit or pecuniary gain. That concept and that interpretation of the act were later forcefully emphasized in the Carsten, Dalmasso, and Jannak cases,…