Blake v. Department of Labor & Industries

(concurring in the result) — We held in Garney v. Department of Labor & Industries, 180 Wash. 645, 41 P. (2d) 400, that it was sufficient to create the relationship of employer and employee within the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act if the county is engaged in extrahazardous work and the worker be engaged for compensation in the performance of such work by someone authorized by the county to hire him; that it was no concern of the department of labor and industries as to how the workmen were paid — whether it be by cash, warrant, scrip, or supplies. Thurston Co. Chap. Amer. etc.…