workmen's compensation act
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From 286 U.S. 145 - Bradford Elec. Light Co. v. Clapper · 1932Most cited · 535 citing opinions
Workmen's compensation acts are treated, almost universally, as creating a statutory relation between the parties-not, like employer's liability acts, as substituting a statutory tort for a common-law tort.