Smith v. International High Speed Steel Co.

This action was brought to recover the pecuniary loss sustained by the widow and next of kin of one Harvey D. Slockbower, an employee of the defendant company. His work was the polishing and boring of steel tubing, and his death resulted from the breathing into his lungs' of fine particles of metallic and mineral substances which were thrown into the air as a result of that work, thereby causing a congested and diseased condition, from udiich he finally died.

The appeal is rested solely upon the proposition that the Workmen’s Compensation law of this state provides the exclusive remedy for a…