Morgan County v. Craig

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

To the claim for workmen’s compensation by one of its employees, the County of Morgan filed its motion to dismiss, asserting that the Workmen’s Compensation Act (Ga. L. 1920, p. 167), as amended by the 1943 act (Ga. L. 1943, p. 401), offended and offends Art. 7, Sec. 6, Par. 2, of the Constitution of 1877; and that there has been no re-enactment of the workmen’s compensation law in so far as counties generally, or Morgan County in particular, are concerned, subsequent to the adoption of the Constitution of 1945.

That the 1920 act, supra, was unconstitutional, as…