Rorvik v. North Pac. Lumber Co.
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Robert Tucker, Judge. Department 2. This is an action brought under the Oregon Employers ’ Liability Act (Laws 1911, p. 16) for damages for the death of C. P. Rorvik. The plaintiff is the widow of deceased.
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From Multnomah: Robert Tucker, Judge. Department 2. This is an action brought under the Oregon Employers ’ Liability Act (Laws 1911, p. 16) for damages for the death of C. P. Rorvik. The plaintiff is the widow of deceased. The defendant corporation is extensively engaged in the business of manufacturing and dealing in lumber in the City of Portland, and maintains on its premises, and adjoining the Willamette River, a dock, upon which it stores its lumber for. sale, and from which the lumber is transferred-to vessels for shipment to ports on the Pacific and elsewhere. At the time of the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcBRIDE, C. J.
This case presents many intricate propositions, and for that reason we have given a more than usually extended statement of the contentions of the parties as they appear from the pleadings.
1. It is first contended that plaintiff cannot recover under the employers’ liability law of this state, because neither the complaint nor the evidence show that the deceased was an employee of defendant, or that he sustained to it any such relation as brings him within the terms of such act. The complaint and *69the uneontradicted testimony disclose the following facts:
The evidence indicates that at the time…
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