Monroe Calculating MacHine Co. v. Department of Labor & Industries

This is an appeal by the department of labor and industries of the state of Washington (hereinafter referred to as the department) from a judgment entered by the superior court for Pierce county, in favor of plaintiff, Monroe Calculating Machine Company, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the company).

On February 21, 1940, and again on March 14, 1940, the department informed the company, whose main office is at Orange, New Jersey, that its operations in its three branch offices in Tacoma, Seattle, and Spokane, Washington, came under the workmen’s compensation act of this state, and that it…