Johnson v. Hardy-Burlingham Mining Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

This proceeding chiefly involves the procedural provisions of onr Workmen’s Compensation Act, being sections 4880, 4987 inclusive of the 1922 edition of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes. Such statutes have for their pur*753pose the furnishing of a speedy and scientific adjustment of compensation for industrial injuries arising out of and occurring in the course of the servant’s employment. Besides abolishing the old common law remedies as well as defenses for the recovering of compensation to the injured servant, the statutes provide entirely new machinery…