Essick v. City of Lexington

On this appeal we have to deal with a variety of unusual claims set up by the appellees and controverted by the appellants, and quite a number of novel concepts of applicable law relating to the defenses available in the instant case. The legal controversy arises in part over the apparent inability to reconcile provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act with the common law, which it very substantially amends, and in many particulars, indeed those most essential to the effectiveness of the act, it abrogates.

•We may observe initially that the very life of the Workmen’s Compensation Act lies…