McCamey v. Payer

By the Court.

In considering this appeal, the important question for determination is whether the contract involved was authorized or valid.

The State Insurance Fund possesses peculiar charac teristics. It owes its existence to legislative action by the General Assembly of Ohio and is created through compulsory contributions by certain employers of labor for the beneficient and salutary purpose of compensating workmen and their dependents for accidental injuries, disabilities or death occasioned to the workmen by their engagement in industrial pursuits.

Negligence and contributory negligence do…