A Treatise on the Law of Fellow-servants: Embracing a Collection of Statutes, English and American, Changing Or Abrogating the Common Law Rule, Together with an Appendix Relating to Employes' Insurance SocietiesEdward Thompson Company, 1889 - 515 pages |
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... agent or servant , on behalf and for the benefit of another . Under certain conditions , how- ever , responsibility goes further . A man subject to a positive duty is held liable for failure to perform it . The absolute character of the ...
... agent or servant , on behalf and for the benefit of another . Under certain conditions , how- ever , responsibility goes further . A man subject to a positive duty is held liable for failure to perform it . The absolute character of the ...
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... agent , he who directs , counsels or procures another to commit a tort is liable as a principal . where this relation exists , it is not necessary that the prin- cipal or master should expressly direct or have knowl- edge of the act ...
... agent , he who directs , counsels or procures another to commit a tort is liable as a principal . where this relation exists , it is not necessary that the prin- cipal or master should expressly direct or have knowl- edge of the act ...
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... agents . If the owner of the carriage is therefore responsible for the suffi- ciency of his carriage to his servant , he is ... agent . " Beach , Contrib . Neg . 98 . example , would be liable to the servant for the $ 41 5 ORIGIN OF RULE ...
... agents . If the owner of the carriage is therefore responsible for the suffi- ciency of his carriage to his servant , he is ... agent . " Beach , Contrib . Neg . 98 . example , would be liable to the servant for the $ 41 5 ORIGIN OF RULE ...
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... agent , for any injury , provided the company can only show that another of its agents has inflicted it . Would it do to say , for example - and upon what princi- ple could it be said - that a superin- tendent of the hands engaged in re ...
... agent , for any injury , provided the company can only show that another of its agents has inflicted it . Would it do to say , for example - and upon what princi- ple could it be said - that a superin- tendent of the hands engaged in re ...
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... agent against the principal by whom such servant was himself employed.1 The rule is clearly a just one . ployer from liability to a servant for the negligence of. § 14. Common Master.— painter was thrown down and in- jured ; a miner and ...
... agent against the principal by whom such servant was himself employed.1 The rule is clearly a just one . ployer from liability to a servant for the negligence of. § 14. Common Master.— painter was thrown down and in- jured ; a miner and ...
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Page 221 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any persons entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer, nor engaged in his work.
Page 242 - Employers' liability for injuries. — When personal injury is caused to an employee who is himself in the exercise of due care and diligence at the time: 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 224 - Notice in respect of an injury under this Act shall give the name and address of the person injured, and shall state in ordinary language the cause of the injury and the date at which it was sustained...
Page 225 - The notice may also be served by post by a registered letter addressed to the person on whom it is to be served...
Page 224 - ... preventing multiplicity of such actions, rules and regulations may be made, varied, and repealed from time to time in the same manner as rules and regulations for regulating the practice and procedure in other actions in county courts. "County court" shall, with respect to Scotland, mean the "sheriff's court," and shall, with respect to Ireland, mean the "civil bill court.
Page 222 - Proceedings for the recovery under this Act of compensation for an injury shall not be maintainable unless notice of the accident has been given as soon as practicable after the happening thereof and before the workman has voluntarily left the employment in which he was injured, and unless the claim for compensation with respect to such accident has been made within six months from the occurrence of the accident...
Page 226 - workman " does not include a domestic or menial servant, but save as aforesaid, means any person who, being a labourer, servant in husbandry, journeyman, artificer, handicraftsman, miner, or otherwise engaged in manual labour, whether under the age of twenty-one years or above that age, has entered into or works under a contract with an employer, whether the contract...
Page 234 - ... when such wrongs are in any manner connected with the use and operation of any railway on or about which they shall be employed, and no contract which restricts such liability shall be legal or binding.
Page 241 - Where after the commencement of this act personal injury is caused to a workman (1.) By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant connected with or used in the business of the employer; or (2.) By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has any superintendence entrusted to him whilst in the exercise of such superintendence...
Page 242 - ... under the provisions of this section shall be deemed to be invalid or insufficient solely by reason of any inaccuracy in stating the time, place or cause of the injury if it be shown that there was no intention to mislead and that the party entitled to notice was not in fact misled thereby.