Legal Opinion
Davis v. Department of Labor and Industries of Wash.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 21, 1942No. 86PublishedCited by 354 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
In this case the Washington Supreme Court held that the State could not, consistently with the Federal Constitution, make an award under its state compensation law to *251the widow of a workman drowned in a navigable river. The circumstances which caused the court to reach this conclusion were these:
The petitioner’s husband, a structural steelworker, was drowned in the Snohomish River while working as an employee of the Manson Construction and Engineering Company, a contributor to the Workmen’s Compensation Fund of the State of Washington. Contributions of Washington employers to this Fund are…
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