 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 996 pages
...for the safety of employes contributed to the injury or death of such employe. ' ' Section 5. That any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...created by this act shall to that extent be void: Provided; That in any such action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any... | |
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 584 pages
...injury or death for which said action was brought." We think that no evasion of the provision that "any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...of which shall be to enable any common carrier to 93 NJL Drago v. Central Railroad Co. of NJ exempt itself from any liability created by this act shall... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 804 pages
...enacted for the safety of employes contributed to the injury or death of such employe. " SEC. 5. That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void : Provided, that in any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1921 - 688 pages
...also the law that such a contract is not binding. Section 5 of the Federal Liability act provides : "Any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void." There was/ no impropriety in the giving of the instruction, as it stated the law correctly. The seventh... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 644 pages
...under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. Section 5 of that act, as amended in 1908, is as follows : "Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void: Provided, That in any Rep.] April Term, 1916. action brought against any such common carrier under... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 572 pages
...the Federal Employers' Liability Law, which it is contended have this effect, are as follows : "Sec. 5. Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this Act, shall to that extent be void: Provided, That in any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 506 pages
...services are performed cannot be regarded as an evasion of | 5 of such Act, •which provides "that any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...created by this Act shall to that extent be void." If a contract, that is to have, if valid, the necessary effect to exempt the carrier from such liability,... | |
 | Law - 1916 - 502 pages
...been passed upon by US Supreme Court. The provision in the federal Employers' Liability Act is that : "Any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...itself from any liability created by this act, shall be to that extent void." The Mondou case did not have before it any question of insurance in the relief... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1058 pages
...existing as to future contracts and regulations of the described character cannot be doubted. The words, 'the purpose or Intent of which shall be to enable...exempt itself from any liability created by this act,' do not refer simply to an actual intent of the parties to circumvent the statute. The 'purpose or intent'... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1230 pages
...Employers' Liability Act of 1908, which provides: "That any contract, rule, regulation, or devic« whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be...act, shall to that extent be void." 35 US Stat. at L. 66, c. 149, § б (DS Сотр. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1324). We are now to reconsider the remaining... | |
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That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this act, shall to that extent be void... 
