Stertz v. Industrial Insurance Commission
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Thurs-ton county, Mitchell, J., entered September M, 1915, in favor of the defendant, in an action for death under the workmen’s compensation act, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBausman, J.
This is a proceeding by the widow and minor children of Stertz, foreman of a logging camp, to recover through the industrial insurance commission statutory compensation for death.
This foreman had suspended for misconduct a workman named Steel but had reinstated him. Steel, discharged - a few days later by the president, waylaid the logging train and, wounding one, killed others of the workmen including Stertz, who was in charge of the train as foreman. Only those were assailed with whom Steel while a workman had *590had quarrels concerning his tasks. The present claimants are not shown to have…
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