De Leon v. Doyhof Fish Products Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Hall, J., entered March 11, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury rendered in favor of the plaintiff, in an action in tort.
1Opinion of the CourtChadwick, J.
The appellant conducts a cannery at Scow Bay, Alaska. One James H. Scott was superintendent. Respondent worked at the cannery during the season of 1917. He was under the immediate direction of a Chinese boss. It was the duty of the superintendent to look after the general conduct of the business; to have general charge over labor and of production; to maintain discipline and quell strikes or *338any uprisings that occurred at the cannery. The cannery was situate at such a distance from the home office, which is in Seattle, that it was oftentimes, if not altogether, necessary to allow Scott a…
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