Hawkins v. Bleakley

SMITH McPHERSON, District Judge.

This is an action by a _ bill in equity exhibited by complainant against State Auditor Bleakley and State Industrial Commissioner Garst seeking to enjoin the enforcement of chapter 147 of the Eaws of the Thirty-Fifth General Assembly of Iowa (1913) known as the Employer’s Liability or Workmen’s Compensation Law. The complainant, being an employer of labor and within the terms of the statute, contends that the statute in unconstitutional and void. The defendant moves to dismiss the case, equivalent to'a demurrer, on the grounds that the bill is without equity…