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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... consequences of negli- gence in a matter in which he is the principal , is respon- sible for the negligence of all his inferior agents . If the owner of the carriage is therefore responsible for the suffi- ciency of his carriage to his ...
... consequences of negli- gence in a matter in which he is the principal , is respon- sible for the negligence of all his inferior agents . If the owner of the carriage is therefore responsible for the suffi- ciency of his carriage to his ...
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... consequences , afford a sufficient argument against the application of this principle to the present case . But , in truth , the mere re- lation of the master and the servant never can imply an obligation on the part of the master to ...
... consequences , afford a sufficient argument against the application of this principle to the present case . But , in truth , the mere re- lation of the master and the servant never can imply an obligation on the part of the master to ...
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... consequence of his own unskillful- ness or negligence . He then continued : " The difficulty is as to the principle applicable to the case of several ser- vants employed by the same master , and an injury result- ing to one of them from ...
... consequence of his own unskillful- ness or negligence . He then continued : " The difficulty is as to the principle applicable to the case of several ser- vants employed by the same master , and an injury result- ing to one of them from ...
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... consequences of which therefore they are not re- sponsible . The declaration indeed states the accident to have arisen from the combined neglect of the servants who were managing the carriages in which the deceased was travelling , and ...
... consequences of which therefore they are not re- sponsible . The declaration indeed states the accident to have arisen from the combined neglect of the servants who were managing the carriages in which the deceased was travelling , and ...
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... consequence of the negligence of the engin- eer , the defendants would not be liable , unless they under- took to answer for his diligence and skill . Is that implied ? I think not . The law never implies an obligation in re- lation to ...
... consequence of the negligence of the engin- eer , the defendants would not be liable , unless they under- took to answer for his diligence and skill . Is that implied ? I think not . The law never implies an obligation in re- lation to ...
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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.