The general rule resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy is that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks... Political Science Quarterly - Page 2581902Full view - About this book
| William Paley - Agency (Law) - 1847 - 732 pages
...an action, though certainly not a decisive oue, that no such action has before been maintained. — The general rule, resulting from considerations as...takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services, and in legal presumption, the compensation is... | |
| 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 - 1886 - 744 pages
...Met. 49 : 2 Thompson on Negligence 924. A person " who engages in the employment of a railroad company for the performance of specified duties and services,...takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such service," and these include the perils arising from the... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Thomas Durfee - Highway law - 1857 - 484 pages
...the opinion, that there was nothing in that relation from which such a contract could be inferred ; the general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, being, that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties and... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 654 pages
...Boston and Worcester Railroad Co., 4 Met. 49, SHAW, CJ, in delivering the opinion of the Court, says: "The general rule resulting from considerations, as...justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the emplorment of another for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 712 pages
...'the latter is engaged. The rule established in such cases from considerations of justice, as well as policy, is, that he who engages in the employment...specified duties and services, for compensation, takes tipon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of Young r. New... | |
| Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Thomas Durfee - Highway law - 1868 - 628 pages
...inferred ; the general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, being, that he who engages in the employment of another for...services, for compensation, takes upon himself the natural ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services, and, in legal presumption,... | |
| Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Leading cases - 1870 - 708 pages
...Priestly v. Fowler, 3 Mees. & Welsh. 1 ; Murray v. South Carolina Railroad Company, 1 McMullen, 385. The general rule, resulting from considerations as...takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services, and in legal presumption, the compensation is... | |
| New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 712 pages
...Farwell v. The Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation (4 Met., 49), lays down the general rule, " that he who engages in the employment of another for...takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services, and, in legal presumption, the compensation is... | |
| Law - 1886 - 548 pages
...Chief Justice Shaw, in the leading case of Farwell v. Boston, etc., R. Corp., 4 Mete. 49, as follows: 'He who engages in the employment of another, for...takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services.' But there are well-defined exceptions to this... | |
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