Boeing Aircraft Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries

This case involves the construction and application of the appeal provisions of Rem. Rev. Stat. (Sup.), § 7676, and Rem. Supp. 1943, § 7697 [P.P.C. §§ 717-1, 704-1]. The factual and legal background of the entire inquiry grows out of our decision in Boeing Aircraft Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries, 22 Wn. (2d) 423, 156 P. (2d) 640. That case had its origin in a serious airplane tragedy in Seattle in which a testing and engineering crew of Boeing Aircraft Company and twenty employees of Frye & Company, a meat-packing plant, were killed when an airplane, on a test run, crashed into Frye…