Strong v. Sonken-Galamba Iron & Metal Co.

(dissenting) : After about twenty-five years of European experiment, this country began to enact workmen’s compensation laws. In 1884, Germany by an accident insurance act began the change which has thus developed. Maryland enacted a statute of this kind in 1902, followed by Montana in 1909, and New York in 1910. Ours was passed in 1911. In Germany seven hundred thousand accidents with ten thousand fatalities occurred annually. The situation was less startling than in the United States 'where there were from two million to three million accidents with from twenty-five thousand to thirty…