Opinions of the Solicitor for the Department of Commerce and Labor Dealing with Workmen's Compensation: Under the Act of Congress Granting to Certain Employees of the United States the Right to Receive from it Compensation for Injuries Sustained in the Course of Their Employment, Approved May 30, 1908. From August 1908, to August, 1912 |
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15 days able to resume accident occurred accident was due accidental appears approved artisan or laborer attending physician August August 11 cause certificate child circumstances claim for compensation claim is submitted claimant was employed Commerce and Labor compensation act condition continued course of employment death decedent December 12 Department dependent parent disability disease duties engaged in hazardous engine entitled to compensation evidence examination fact February February 26 filed foreman furnished hazardous employment held hernia immediate report incapacitated incapacity injured employee injury received Isthmian Canal Commission January June 12 labor train lead poisoning letter manufacturing establishment meaning ment naval navy yard negligence or misconduct November October October 17 office with special official superior opinion performed period person present question reason record result right to compensation Secretary of Commerce special reference statement statute tion widow word workman yard surgeon
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Page 155 - If in any employment to which this Act applies personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to a workman, his employer shall, subject as herein-after mentioned, be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the First Schedule to this Act.
Page 312 - Negligence,' has been defined to be 'the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something, which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 509 - By the constitution, a treaty is placed on the same footing, and made of like obligation, with an act of legislation. Both are declared by that instrument to be the supreme law of the land, and no superior efficacy is given to either over the other. When the two relate to the same subject, the courts will always endeavor to construe them so as to give effect to both, if that can be done without violating the language of either: but. if the two are inconsistent, the one last in date...
Page 627 - No Executive Department or other Government establishment of the United States shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made 'by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract or other obligation for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations unless such contract or obligation is authorized by law.
Page 145 - August first, nineteen hundred and eight, any person employed by the United States as an artisan or laborer in any of its manufacturing establishments, arsenals, or navy yards, or in the construction of river and harbor or fortification work, or in hazardous employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands or the management and control of the same, or in hazardous employment under the Isthmian Canal Commission...
Page 56 - ... or migration of any alien or aliens, any foreigner or foreigners, into the United States, Its Territories, or the District of Columbia, under contract or agreement, parol or special, express or implied, made previous to the importation or migration of such alien or aliens, foreigner or foreigners, to perform labor or service of any kind in the United States, its Territories, or the District of Columbia.
Page 168 - accident' is used in the popular and ordinary sense of the word as denoting an unlocked for mishap or an untoward event which is not expected or designed.
Page 5 - An act granting to certain employees of the United States the right to receive from it compensation for injuries sustained in the course of their employment...
Page 163 - ... shall die during the said year by reason of such injury received in the course of such employment...
Page 154 - ... happening by chance; unexpectedly taking place; not according to the usual course of things; or not as expected;' that, if a result is such as follows from ordinary means, voluntarily employed, in a not unusual or unexpected way, it cannot be called a result effected by accidental means ; but that if, in the act which precedes the injury, something unforeseen, unexpected, unusual occurs which produces the injury, then the injury has resulted through accidental means.