Tinker v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.

OPINION

By STEVENS, J.

Article II, §35, of the Constitution of Ohio, provides:

“For the purpose of providing compensation to workmen and their dependents, for death, injuries or occupational disease, occasioned in the course of such workmen’s employment, laws may be passed * *

Sec 1465-68, GC, passed in pursuance of the above constitutional authority, provides:

“Every employe * * * who is injured "• * * in the course of employment, wheresoever such injury has occurred, provided the same was not purposely self-inflicted, * * * shall be entitled to receive * * * sucli compensation * * * as provided…