Louis v. Smith-McCormick Construction Co.

Poffenbarger, Judge:

Tbis writ of error brings up for review tbe trial court’s rulings upon tbe legal sufficiency of an original and an amended declaration for damages for a personal injury, sustained by an employee, demurrers to both having been sustained and the action dismissed.

A threshold inquiry is tbe character of the liability tbe pleadings in question seek to enforce. A declaration for *161common law liability differs in its requirements from one for a statutory liability. Tbe enactment of the Workmen’s Compensation Act applicable only to certain classes of employers, subjects them to…