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Author: {"author": "\n      MATTHIAS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 547
    No. 18937
    The Foundry Appliance Co. v. Corbett Ratliff, et al.
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Butler County.
    264. COMPENSATION ACT—1. Minor employees of complying employers, within provisions of.
    2. May plead absence of contributory negligence, in any action for damages.
   MATTHIAS, J.

. . 1. By virtue of the provisions of Sections 1465-61 and 1465-93, General Code (108 O. L. 316,324), all minor employes of employers complying with the Workmen’s Compensation Act are brought within the provisions of that act.

2. The provisions of Section 1465-76, General Code, that, “The defendant shall be entitled to plead the defense of contributory negligence” is available to an employer, who has complied with the Workmen’s Compensation Act, in a suit brought under favor of that section to recover damages for the injury or death of any such employe.

Judgment reversed.

Marshall, CJ., Jones, Day, Allen, Kinkade and Robinson, JJ., concur.