Garney v. Department of Labor & Industries

On November 25, 1932, and for several days prior thereto, plaintiff was engaged in working or public roads in commissioner’s district No. 3, of Skagit county. He was hired by the commissioner who had charge of road work in that district, and was under the immediate direction of a foreman employed by the county. He was paid from moneys in the indigent relief fund, which had been augmented that year by the issuance by Skagit county of its general obligation bonds in the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. It seems that plaintiff was paid by some sort of a voucher, which was redeemable in…