Court Opinion

ID: 6714988
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 22:45:17.016039+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:30.958958
License: Public Domain

JONES (E. H.), J.
The receipt of money by an injured employe from the state liability board of awards by virtue of the workmen’s compensation law is not a bar to an action for damages against a person other than the employer whose negligence contributed to the injury, there being no provision in said act making the remedy therein provided exclusive. The rule that settlement with one joint tort-feasor is a bar to recovery from the other has no •application and can not be invoked in such a case.
The presence of the piece of timber in the court room was within .the discretion of the trial judge, and, while the prominence given it during the trial may have been unusual, it was not error upon which a reviewing court could bottom a judgment of reversal.
We find no error in the proceedings in the superior court, and its judgment will be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.
Jones (O, B.), and Gorman, JJ,, concur.