Highway Oil Co. v. State Ex Rel. Bricker

In conformity with modem sociological concepts, the people of Ohio by constitutional amendment (Section 35, Article II, Constitution of Ohio) authorized the passage of laws “establishing a state fund to be created by compulsory contribution thereto by employers, and administered by the state” “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.”

Obedient to this implied mandate, the General Assembly promptly enacted the legislation known as the Ohio Workmen’s Compensation…