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SHEEHAN CO. v. SHULER

No. 593.

265 U.S. 371 (1924)

R.E. SHEEHAN COMPANY ET AL. v. SHULER, AS STATE TREASURER OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 26, 1924.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. William H. Foster for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. E. Clarence Aiken, Deputy Attorney General, with whom Mr. Carl Sherman, Attorney General of the State of New York, was on the brief, for defendants in error.

MR. JUSTICE SANFORD delivered the opinion of the Court.

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 of death, irrespective of negligence, and...

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