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WASHINGTON v. DAWSON & CO.

Nos. 366 and 684.

264 U.S. 219 (1924)

STATE OF WASHINGTON v. W.C. DAWSON & COMPANY. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ET AL. v. JAMES ROLPH COMPANY ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 25, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John H. Dunbar, Attorney General of the State of Washington, with whom Mr. Raymond W. Clifford, Assistant Attorney General, was on the brief, for plaintiff in error in No. 366.

Mr. Warren H. Pillsbury for plaintiffs in error in No. 684.

Mr. Robert S. Terhune and Mr. Howard G. Cosgrove, for defendant in error in No. 366, submitted.

Mr. G. Bowdoin Craighill, Mr. L.A. Redman and Mr. Chas. B. Tebbs, for defendants in error in No. 684, submitted. Mr. Jewel Alexander and Mr. W.C. Bacon were also on the brief.

Mr. Alfred J. Schweppe, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

Mr. Henry C. Hunter and Mr. Joseph P. Chamberlain, by leave of Court, filed a brief as amici curiae.

MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

These causes turn upon the same point, were heard together and it will be convenient to decide them by one opinion.

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