Janney v. Fullroe, Inc.

We concur in the opinion of Mr. Justice BICKLEY except the portion which denies liability of the insurer for the fifty per cent, additional award arising from employer’s failure to use a safety device required by law. In our opinion, it -misconstrues the statute. In its original form the statute first appears as L.1917, c. 83, § 7, a part of the Workmen’s Compensation Act as first enacted. It bears the same section number in the reenactment of the law, with changes and additions in certain respects but not in this respect, as L.1929, c. 113, 1929 Comp., § 156-107. In both the 1917 and 1929…