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GORDON v. BURGESS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY

No. 716.

425 P.2d 602 (1967)

Joyce Gail GORDON, Administratrix of the Estate of Timothy Taylor Gordon, Deceased, Appellant, v. BURGESS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, an Alaska corporation et al., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

April 3, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Parrish, Fairbanks, for appellant.

George M. Yeager and David H. Call, Fairbanks, for appellee, Howard Staley, of Merdes, Schaible, Staley & DeLisio, Fairbanks, filed a brief in support of appellee's legal position.

Before NESBETT, C.J., RABINOWITZ, J., and SANDERS, Superior Court Judge.

OPINION

NESBETT, Chief Justice.

The question presented is whether the scope of employer coverage originally provided by the Defective Machinery Act has been retained, separate from and undiminished by the coverage provided by the later enacted Workmen's Compensation Act, or whether its coverage has been correspondingly reduced by each extension of coverage given to the Compensation Act, during the fifty years of their coexistence.

In 1913, the Alaska...

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