Rumsey v. Department of Labor & Industries

Plaintiff is engaged in business as a construction contractor, and as such, during the month of November, 1935, was awarded a contract for the performance of a Federal Aid project, which included the construction of a roadway across the Nisqually flats, comprising a section of the new state highway from Olympia northerly to an intersection with the Pacific highway a short distance north of the Nisqually river. Under his contract, plaintiff was to construct approximately two thousand feet of the roadway, part on the south side of the Nisqually river, the remainder to the north. This portion of…