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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... performance in itself , not the causes or conditions of non - performance , is the ground of liability . Special duties created by statute , as conditions , attached to the grant of exceptional rights or otherwise , afford the chief ...
... performance in itself , not the causes or conditions of non - performance , is the ground of liability . Special duties created by statute , as conditions , attached to the grant of exceptional rights or otherwise , afford the chief ...
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... performance , by each , of his several duties . If the fireman neglects his part , the engine stands still for want of steam ; if the engineer neglects his , every- thing runs to riot and disaster . It seems to me it is , on the part of ...
... performance , by each , of his several duties . If the fireman neglects his part , the engine stands still for want of steam ; if the engineer neglects his , every- thing runs to riot and disaster . It seems to me it is , on the part of ...
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... performance of specified duties and services , for compensation , takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services . The perils arising from the carelessness and negligence of ...
... performance of specified duties and services , for compensation , takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services . The perils arising from the carelessness and negligence of ...
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... performance of duties towards the inferior servant which the law imposes upon the master . " And in Texas Judge Thompson's rule is substantially reiterated : " Where two servants are employed by the same master , labor under the same ...
... performance of duties towards the inferior servant which the law imposes upon the master . " And in Texas Judge Thompson's rule is substantially reiterated : " Where two servants are employed by the same master , labor under the same ...
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... performance of such duties as the law implies from the contract of service , does not rest upon the ground of guaranty of their performance , but upon the ground . whether the master was negligent or not in their perform- ance . This ...
... performance of such duties as the law implies from the contract of service , does not rest upon the ground of guaranty of their performance , but upon the ground . whether the master was negligent or not in their perform- ance . This ...
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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.