 | Law - 1896 - 542 pages
...relation of master and servant existed between them. So that a person employing a contractor to do work is not liable for the negligence of that contractor...something to be done, the doing of which casts on bim a duty, cannot escape from the responsibility attaching to him, of seeing that duty performed,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 702 pages
...relation of master and servant existed between them. So that a pei-son employing a contractor to do work is not liable for the negligence of that contractor...duty performed by delegating it to a contractor." Then Lord Watson also says, " Upon the point of law which was not remitted to the learned Judges who... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 632 pages
...obligation to repair to the road authority as contractors. In Angus v. Dalton (3) Lord Blackburn says, " A person causing something to be done, the doing of...duty performed by delegating it to a contractor." [LORD COLERIDGE, CJ — There is an express power here given to the defendants to contract with a particular... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 1214 pages
...relation of master and servant existed between them. So that a person employing a contractor to do work Is not liable for the negligence of that contractor or his servants. Oh the other hand, a person causing something to be done, the doing of which casts on. him a duty,... | |
 | Maurice Powell - Evidence (Law) - 1891 - 936 pages
...Jackson, 40 Ch. D. 71, and further cases cited infra, and post, p. 730. And where a person causes " something to be done, the doing of which casts on him a duty, he cannot escape from the responsibility attaching to him of seeing that duty performed by delegating... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 830 pages
...relations of master and servant existed between them. So that a person employing a contractor to do work is not liable for the negligence of that contractor...other hand, a person causing something to be done, the the doing of which casts on him a duty, cannot escape from the responsibility attaching on him of seeing... | |
 | Robert Campbell, Irving Browne - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1896 - 932 pages
...relation of master and servant existed between them. So that a person employing a contractor to do work is not liable for the negligence of that contractor...his servants. On the other hand, a person causing No. 8. — Ballon y. Angus, 6 App. Cas. 829, 830. something to be done, the doing of which casts on... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 712 pages
...relation of master and servant existed between them. So that a person employing a contractor to do work is not liable for the negligence of that contractor...hand, a person causing something to be done, the doing (,f which casts on him a duty, cannot escape from the responsibility attaching on him of seeing that... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 770 pages
...plaintiff. Ever since the case of Quarman v. Burnett, 6 Mees. & W. 499, it has been considered that a person causing something to be done, the doing of...duty, cannot escape from the responsibility attaching to him of seeing that duty performed, by delegating it to a contractor. He cannot thereby relieve himself... | |
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On the other hand, a person causing something to be done, the doing of which casts on him a duty, cannot escape from the responsibility attaching on him of seeing that duty performed by delegating it to a contractor. 
