Spokane & Inland Empire Railway Co. v. Wilson

These three actions against the industrial insurance commission, where the appellants seek to be excluded from the operation of the workmen’s compensation act, all call for the interpretation of the amendment to §18 thereof (Rem. Code, §6604-18), contained in Laws of 1917, page 96, which reads as follows:

“Inasmuch as it has proved impossible in the case of employees engaged in maintenance and operation of railways doing interstate, foreign and intrastate *176commerce, and in maintenance and construction of their equipment, to separate and distinguish the connection of such employees with…