Court Opinion

ID: 9418441
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 22:25:33.680876+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:03.022509
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*370The Chief Justice,
concurring.
To compel an employer to insure his employee against loss from injury sustained in the course of the employment' without reference to the negligence of the employee and at the same time to prohibit the employer from insuring himself against the burden thus imposed, it seems to me, if originally considered, would be a typical illustration of the taking of property without due process and a violation of the equal protection of thé law.
But in view, of the decision in Mountain Timber Co. v. Washington, 243 U. S. 219, sustaining the constitutionality of a law of the State of Washington which necessarily excluded the possibility of the insurance by the employer of the burden in favor of his employees, which the statute in that case imposed, I do not think I am at liberty to consider the subject as an original question, but am constrained to accept and apply the ruling in that case made, and for that reason I concur in the judgment now announced.
Mr. Justice McReynolds dissents.