Pacific Coast Coal Co. v. Brown

In denying the petition for rehearing it need hardly be said that neither in the decision nor in the opinion filed herein did this court refuse to follow the construction placed by the Supreme Court of Washington upon a statute of the state. In none of the decisions of the Supreme Court of that state reférred to by counsel do we understand the court to have held that the amended statute of the state found in section 7381 of Rem. & Bal. Code makes of such an emi-ployé as Righi in the present case the representative of the master. On the contrary, that court in the late case of Delaski et al.…