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49 Wash. 2d 171 - Hand v. Greyhound Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

1956

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 1967
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Mountain Timber Company v. State of Washington · State ex rel. Davis-Smith Co. v. Clausen · Grasse v. Dealer's Transport Co. · Stertz v. Industrial Insurance Commission

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “Right of action against third party — Compromise and settlement, repayment to state. If the injury to a workman is due to negligence or wrong of another not in the same employ, the injured workman . . . shall elect whether to take under this title or seek a remedy against such other .... (Italics ours.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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