observing that the purpose of workers’ compensation law- is “to secure to injured employees reasonable compensation so as to prevent them from becoming public ■ charges”
How later courts described this case
- observing that the purpose of workers’ compensation law- is “to secure to injured employees reasonable compensation so as to prevent them from becoming public ■ charges”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Justice Bachman
dissents. He is of the opinion that the act, exempting as it does coal mine operators and their employees from its operation, is arbitrary, discriminatory, and unreasonable because of this classification.