Gordon v. Burgess Construction Company

OPINION

Before NESBETT, C. J., RABINO--WITZ, J., and SANDERS, Superior Court-Judge. NESBETT, Chief Justice.

The question presented is whether the scope of employer coverage originally provided by the Defective Machinery Act has-been retained, separate from and undiminished by the coverage provided by the later enacted Workmen’s Compensation Act, or whether its coverage has been correspondingly reduced by each extension of coverage given to the Compensation Act, during the-fifty years of their coexistence.

In 1913, the Alaska Territorial Legislature enacted the Defective Machinery Act which made…