Travelers Insurance v. Williamson

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The ruling set forth in the syllabus may not be altogether, free from doubt and difficulty. We do not think that a dependent can recover under the workmen’s compensation act except by virtue of rights and remedies therein provided. Section 12 of the act provides that “the rights and remedies herein granted to an employee where he and his employer have accepted the provisions of this act respectively to pay and accept compensation on account of personal injury or death by accident shall exclude all other rights and rem*218edies of such employee, his personal…