 | 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
...Ann. Gas. 1912B, 156), and quotes the language of Mr. Justice Werner, beginning with the words : " When our Constitutions were adopted, it was the law...liable in damages for injuries sustained by another." In that case the constitutional limitations upon the police power are discussed at great length. The... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 644 pages
...imposing the ordinary risks of a business (which under the Opinion of the Court. common law the employe was held to assume) on the employer. The court states...in the progress of the enterprise, even though he have no part or connection with the negligent act itself which caused the injury. Such for instance,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1912 - 790 pages
...liberty, or property, without due process of law." The decision was placed squarely upon the ground that " When our Constitutions were adopted it was the law...liable in damages for injuries sustained by another." 8 This is in absolute conflict with the line of reasoning developed in the present article. However,... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1912 - 372 pages
...is, because, to state, in the court's own language, the proposition upon which its view is rested: "When our Constitutions were adopted it was the law...liable in damages for injuries sustained by another." It is entirely true that due process of law means in accordance with the law of the land at the time... | |
 | Labor - 1913 - 1314 pages
...unconstitutional by the court of appeals of that State. Of this the Ohio court said : The [New York] the justice shall examine under oath such person...refused without reasonable cause or legal excuse to be mav sustain such relation to the inception of an undertaking that he will be held liable for negligence... | |
 | Labor - 1911 - 1202 pages
...of every citizen is to hold and enjoy his property until it is taken from him by due process of law. When our constitutions were adopted it was the law...liable in damages for injuries sustained by another. That is still the law, except as to the employers enumerated in the new statute, and as to them it... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1332 pages
...are directed principally against the assumption found in the statement made in the opinion therein: "When our Constitutions were adopted, it was the law...liable in damages for injuries sustained by another." To this it is objected that at common law, in many instances, a voluntary connection with the agency... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1911 - 728 pages
...clause. The basis of the decision of the New York Court of Appeals is found in the following statement: "When our Constitutions were adopted it was the law...liable in damages for injuries sustained by another." 8 The examples of absolute liability above are quite inconsistent with this. The court dismisses the... | |
 | Economics - 1911 - 952 pages
...that the method adopted by the act is arbitrary or unreasonable. The gist of the objection is that — When our constitutions were adopted it was the law...liable in damages for injuries sustained by another, and the reversal of this rule by the Compensation Act is so revolutionary a change as not to afford... | |
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When our constitutions were adopted it was the law of the land that no man who was without fault or negligence could be held liable in damages for injuries sustained by another. 
