NEW YORK CENT. R.R. CO. v. BIANC

Nos. 374-376.

250 U.S. 596 (1919)

NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY v. BIANC. AMERICAN KNIFE COMPANY ET AL. v. SWEETING. CLARK KNITTING COMPANY, INC., ET AL. v. VAUGHN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 10, 1919.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert E. Whalen, with whom Mr. Frank V. Whiting was on the brief, for plaintiff in error in No. 374;

Mr. E.C. Aiken, Deputy Attorney General of the State of New York, with whom Mr. Charles D. Newton, Attorney General of the State of New York, was on the briefs, for the State Industrial Commission.


MR. JUSTICE PITNEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The Workmen's Compensation Law of the State of New York (c. 816, Laws 1913, as amended and reenacted by c. 41, Laws 1914; Cons. Laws, c. 67), which was sustained by this court against attacks based upon the Fourteenth Amendment in New York Central R.R. Co. v. White, 243 U.S. 188, was amended by Laws 1916, c. 622, among other...

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