F. W. Woolworth Co. v. Davis

McDERMOTT, Circuit Judge.

The appellee, plaintiff below, recovered a judgment for injuries received from a fall down an elevator shaft in his employer’s place of business. Several errors are assigned.

I. It is claimed that there was error in the overruling of defendant’s special plea to the jurisdiction, which1 presented the proposition that the injury was compensable only under the Workmen’s Compensation Laws of the state of Oklahoma. The state compensation statute provides that the remedies therein provided for shall be exclusive in cases where the statute applies. The statute provides:

“Compen…