Earl Ives, Respondent v. the South Buffalo Railway Company, Appellant

Summary

The New York Court of Appeals held that article 14‑a of the Labor Law, which imposes strict liability on employers in certain dangerous employments regardless of fault, violates the due‑process clause of both the Federal and State Constitutions and therefore is void; the judgment of the Appellate Division was reversed. Justice Cullen, Ch. J., filed a concurring opinion that agreed with the reversal but argued that the statute is a taking of property rather than a permissible exercise of police power.