Stark v. State Industrial Accident Commission
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: Robert Gr. Morrow, Judge. Department 2. Upon the trial of this cause in the lower court a stipulation of the facts was entered into relative to the following questions: “First: Whether or not decedent, Ray E. Stark, met his death as a result of an accident arising out of, and in the course of, his employment under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Oregon.
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From Multnomah: Robert Gr. Morrow, Judge. Department 2. Upon the trial of this cause in the lower court a stipulation of the facts was entered into relative to the following questions: “First: Whether or not decedent, Ray E. Stark, met his death as a result of an accident arising out of, and in the course of, his employment under the Workmen’s Compensation Law of Oregon. “Second: In case the first question is answered in the affirmative, is Wanda Stark, widow of decedent, entitled to compensation on her own behalf as distinguished from compensation on behalf of her child, in view of the facts…
1Opinion of the CourtBean, J.
— By Chapter 112, General Laws of Oregon, 1913, the legislature, recognizing that the prosecution of the various industrial enterprises which must be relied upon to create and preserve the wealth and prosperity of the state, involves the injury of large numbers of workmen resulting in their partial or total incapacity or death, that under the law as it then existed an unequal burden was cast upon its citizens, that the adjudication of the responsibility of the employer on account of injuries sustained by his workmen, entailed unnecessary cost divided between the workmen, the employers and the…
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