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· 2/28/1916

Clyde Steamship Company v. Walker

Citations

  • 244 U.S. 255
  • 37 S. Ct. 545
  • 61 L. Ed. 1116
  • 1917 U.S. LEXIS 1629

Syllabus

<p>Upon the authority of Southern Pacific Co. v. Jensen, ante, 205., Held, that the New York Workmen’s Compensation Act is unconstitutional as applied to the case of a longshoreman employed by a steamship company engaged in interstate transportation by sea, who was injured while on board a vessel unloading her at her wharf in-navigable waters in New York.</p>

Judges: McReynolds, Holmes, Pitney, Brandéis, Clarke

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