Arizona Employers' Liability Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA AND TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA. Concurring opinion op Holmes, J.:— The cases are stated in the opinion.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA AND TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA. Concurring opinion op Holmes, J.:— The cases are stated in the opinion. In reaching the conclusion that the workmen’s compensation acts of New York, Iowa and Washington were a valid exercise of legislative power, this court was influenced by two considerations: one, involving a legal principle, that in taking away the common-law defenses, or some of them, from the employer, the- legislature had substituted a substantial equivalent, inlimiting the liability of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
In each of these cases, a workman in a hazardous industry in the . State of Arizona, having received in the course of his employment a personal injury through an accident due to a condition or conditions of the occupation, not caused by his own negligence or so far as appears by that of his employer or others, brought action under the Employers’ Liability Law of Arizona, and recovered compensatory damages against the employer ascertained upon a consideration of the nature, extent, and disabling effects of the injury in each particular case. And the question is raised whether the statute…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Second Employers'liability CasesSupreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Seaboard Air Line Railway v. HortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- New York Central Railroad Company v. WhiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Hendrick v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1915
- Northern Pacific Railroad v. HerbertSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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3Cited by162 opinions
- Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Truax v. CorriganSupreme Court of the United States · 1921
- Pennekamp v. FloridaSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Montgomery v. DanielsNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
- Cudahy Packing Co. Of Nebraska v. ParramoreSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
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