Tarrant v. Helena Building & Realty Co.

Mr. Justice Anderson,

specially concurring:

In the eases in other states holding the Workmen’s Compensation Law inapplicable there was question as to what the legislature had in mind — whether it intended to deal with contracts of employment that were prohibited by law. As illustrative, I refer to the following:

In Hetzel v. Wasson Piston Ring Co., 89 N. J. L. 201, 98 A. 306, 307, L. R. A. 1917D, 75, a leading case, the court says: “It can hardly be doubted that the Legislature * * * had in mind contracts which were valid in law or, at least, contracts the making of which was not prohibited by…