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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... months and is known to the fore- man of the roundhouse , whose duty it is to repair such defect , and which is unknown to plaintiff , the railroad company is liable for the injury , thereby occasioned . Central Trust Co. v . Texas & St ...
... months and is known to the fore- man of the roundhouse , whose duty it is to repair such defect , and which is unknown to plaintiff , the railroad company is liable for the injury , thereby occasioned . Central Trust Co. v . Texas & St ...
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... months , and was fully informed as to the location and use of the trap - door and the man- ner of its construction . Defendant had given instruc- tions that the trap - door should not be opened from be- low , and the employe who opened ...
... months , and was fully informed as to the location and use of the trap - door and the man- ner of its construction . Defendant had given instruc- tions that the trap - door should not be opened from be- low , and the employe who opened ...
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... months before the accident , after having been employed as brakeman for a somewhat longer period , and that he had once by ' mistake carried a passen- ger by his stopping - place , and had for that reason spoken disparagingly of himself ...
... months before the accident , after having been employed as brakeman for a somewhat longer period , and that he had once by ' mistake carried a passen- ger by his stopping - place , and had for that reason spoken disparagingly of himself ...
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... months while in the employment of the railroad company , and no actual notice or knowledge ever reached any superior officer of the engineer , a jury will be justified in finding that the company was negligent in fail- ing to learn such ...
... months while in the employment of the railroad company , and no actual notice or knowledge ever reached any superior officer of the engineer , a jury will be justified in finding that the company was negligent in fail- ing to learn such ...
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... months . Held , that the question of B.'s competency must relate to the time of the injury ; and , as he had performed the duties of switchman for three months , so far as appeared , without fault or neglect , and was a man of ordinary ...
... months . Held , that the question of B.'s competency must relate to the time of the injury ; and , as he had performed the duties of switchman for three months , so far as appeared , without fault or neglect , and was a man of ordinary ...
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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.