. Electric railway journal . heldthat the workman was not killed in the course of em-ployment. There are decisions from the courts of seven Statesupholding the constitutionality of compensation laws,and it is plain that they have not only come to stay, butthat their scope will be extended not so much by changein existing laws as by liberal interpretations based uponthe ground, as stated in a New York decision, that Anopinion has gradually developed which almost univer-sally favors a more just and economical system of pro-viding compensation for accidental injuries to em-ployees as a substitute
. Electric railway journal . heldthat the workman was not killed in the course of em-ployment. There are decisions from the courts of seven Statesupholding the constitutionality of compensation laws,and it is plain that they have not only come to stay, butthat their scope will be extended not so much by changein existing laws as by liberal interpretations based uponthe ground, as stated in a New York decision, that Anopinion has gradually developed which almost univer-sally favors a more just and economical system of pro-viding compensation for accidental injuries to em-ployees as a substitute for wasteful and protracted dam-age suits, usually unjust in their results either to theemployer or to the employee, and sometimes to it is competent for the state in the promotion ofthe general welfare to require both employer and em-ployee to yield something toward the establishment of aprinciple and plan of compensation for their mutualprotection and advantage. 132 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLVIII, No. 4. Cleveland Operating Stations—Front View of Denison Station Building Cleveland Completes Two More Terminals Four New Operating Stations Have Been Built by the Cleveland Rail-way Company at a Cost of $1,000,000—Permanency and ArchitecturalAttractiveness Governed the Design of the Station Buildings, andLoop-Yard Tracks Were Adopted for Car Storage Purposes
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