Legal Opinion
R. E. Sheehan Co. v. Shuler
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 26, 1924No. 593PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sanford
This case involves the question of the constitutionality of two recent amendments to the Workmen’s Compensation Law of New York. Enacted, Laws, 1913, c. 816; reenacted, Laws, 1914, c. 41.
This is a compulsory law establishing in certain employments classed as hazardous an exclusive system governing compensation for injuries to employees resulting in disability or death, irrespective of negligence, and requiring compensation to be paid to injured employees or, in case of death, to designated beneficiaries, 1 according to prescribed scales gauged by the previous wages and the extent of the…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- New York Central Railroad Company v. WhiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Mountain Timber Company v. State of WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Hodges v. SnyderSupreme Court of the United States · 1923
- Matter of State Industrial Comm. v. . NewmanNew York Court of Appeals · 1918
- Claim of the Claim for Compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Law, on Account of the Death of Watkinson v. Hotel PennsylvaniaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1921
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3Cited by29 opinions
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- Subsequent Injuries Fund v. Industrial Accident CommissionCalifornia Supreme Court · 1952
- B. F. Sturtevant Co. v. Industrial CommissionWisconsin Supreme Court · 1925
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