Kentucky State Journal Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Board

Opinion of the Court by

Special Judge J. L. Dorsey*

■ — Reversing.

This ease was brought to this court by appeal from a judgment of the Franklin Circuit Court to test the constitutionality of an act generally known as the Workmen’s Compensation Act, passed by the Legislature and approved by the Governor, March 21,1914.

By the provisions of this act a Board of Commissioners is created, composed of the Attorney General, the Commissioner of Insurance, and the Commissioner of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics, and to be known as the “Workmen’s Compensation Board.”

This act creates a Workmen’s…