State v. Cowlitz County

This action was brought in the name of the state to recover from Cowlitz county an amount equal to the liability imposed upon the accident fund, under the workmen’s compensation act, for the death of Eobert A.. Titland. To the complaint, a demurrer was interposed and sustained. The plaintiff refused to plead further and elected to stand upon the complaint, and from the judgment entered dismissing the action, appeals.

Only a brief summary of the facts alleged in the complaint is necessary to present the question here for determination. Eobert A. Titland was killed on January 3,. 1923, when the…