Hammack v. Monroe Street Lumber Co.

Appellant Hammack sued the respondent, Monroe Street Lumber Company, for personal injuries and damages to his automobile resulting from an automobile accident. Appellant’s employer, Union Iron Works, and *582the respondent and its employees were engaged in extra-hazardous employment under the compulsory provisions of the industrial insurance act. The court found, however, that appellant himself was covered only by the elective adoption provisions of that act.2 By answer, respondent pleaded immunity to the action pursuant to Laws of 1939, chapter 41, § 2, p. 121 [cf. RCW 51.24.010], set out in the…