Cermak v. Milwaukee Air Power Pump Co.

The following opinions were filed December 7, 1926:

Stevens, J.

The plaintiff seeks to recover damages from a person other than his employer for the same injuries for which compensation had been paid to him by his employer under the workmen’s compensation act.

So far as the workmen’s compensation act determines the procedure by which an employee may recover for injuries sustained in the course of his employment, that act provides the workman’s sole and exclusive remedy. But in all cases that do not come within the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act the injured employee may still resort…