Quong Ham Wah Co. v. Industrial Accident Comm'n of Cal.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. This was a writ of error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of California affirming an award made by the State Industrial Accident' Commission under a Workmen’s Compensation Law. The judgment of the court below that plaintiff- in error,' although a resident of California, could nevertheless attack the validity of the statute, is clearly correct.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. This was a writ of error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of California affirming an award made by the State Industrial Accident' Commission under a Workmen’s Compensation Law. The judgment of the court below that plaintiff- in error,' although a resident of California, could nevertheless attack the validity of the statute, is clearly correct. Buchanan v. Warley, 245 U. S. 60; Heim v. McCall, 239 U. S. 175; Crane v. New York, 239 U. S. 195; New York Life Ins. Co. v. Hardison, 199 Massachusetts, 190. If the statute gives a right…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr; Chief Justice White
delivered the opinion of the court.'
The Quong Ham Wah Company is engaged in the business of supplying to canneries in California and else where the labor required by them to carry on their canning operations. The Company in 1918 hired in the city of San Francisco one Owe Ming, a resident of. California, under an agreement that he was to work as its employee at' -the cannery of the Alaska Packers Association at Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, during the canning season, and that upon his return to San Francisco he would be paid off by the Quong Ham Wah Company and his employment…
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