Murray v. Pacific Coast S. S. Co.
District Court, W.D. Washington
At Law. Action by John Murray against the Pacific Coast Steamship Company.
1Opinion of the Court
CUSHMAN, District Judge.
This cause is for decision upon plaintiff’s demurrer to the defendant’s answer, alleging the unc.onstitutionality, as between plaintiff and defendant, of the Workmen’s Compensation Act of the state of Washington (Daws of 1911, p. 345), under which it is claimed plaintiff sues.
The action is one in personam to recover damages for an injury to plaintiff, received, while in the employ of the defendant as a longshoreman, at work stowing away wheat then being loaded in the hold of one of defendant’s vessels lying at the wharf in Tacoma. The injury is charged to have been…
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