Lopez v. Allen

The Employers’ Liability Act, I.C. § 44— 1401 et seq., was enacted by the legislature in 1909 and has remained intact without amendment. When Idaho first enacted workmen’s compensation laws in 1917, most of the coverage of § 44-1401 et seq., was impliedly repealed because it was covered by the Workmen’s Compensation Act. Consequently, there has been very little application or judicial construction of the Employers’ Liability Act.

The majority having concluded, and correctly so, that defendant respondent Allen was not operating a “warehouse” within the meaning of I.C. § 44-1401 of the act, and…