Guerrieri v. Industrial Insurance Commission
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Webster, J., entered December 13, 1913, sustaining an order of the industrial insurance commission rejecting a claim for personal injuries sustained by an elevator boy.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
The only question raised by this appeal is whether one who is engaged in operating a passenger and freight elevator or lift in a mercantile establishment is a workman engaged in an extra hazardous employment and entitled to compensation under the workmen’s compensation law, ch. 74, Laws of 1911, p. 345 (3 Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6604-1 et seq.).
It is the holding of the industrial insurance commission and of the Attorney General that operators of elevators are *267not within the terms of the law. It was so held by the court below.
Section 2 (Id., § 6604-2) of the act classifies employments “inherently…
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