 | Electronic journals - 1915 - 884 pages
...from liability.24 This defense is not available under the act, the fifth section expressly providing "that any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which is to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this act, shall, to... | |
 | Washington (State). Supreme Court, Arthur Remington, Solon Dickerson Williams - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 840 pages
...contractor. But that fact is unimportant, because § 5 of the Federal employers' liability act provides that: "Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void."* Comp. St. 1913, § 8661. If the purpose of employing the Bates & Rogers Construction Company to repair... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1356 pages
...22, 1UOS (35 Stat. L. 65, c. 149, Сотр. Stat. 1913, § SG57), which provides that any contract, the purpose, or intent of which shall be to enable...created by this act, shall to that extent be void. It was decided by the Supreme Court that the porter, who was employed by and was under the control... | |
 | Administrative law - 1916 - 576 pages
...1908, was under consideration by the Supreme Court of that State. The Georgia Act reads as follows : "Any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by the three preceding sections, shall to that extent be void : Provided, that in any action brought against... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1346 pages
...approved April 22, 190S. 35 Stat at Large, 65; US Сотр. St. 1913, § 8661. That section provides: "That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from, anv liability created by this act, shall to that extent be void: Provided, that in any action brought... | |
 | Homer Richey, Daunis McBride - Employers' liability - 1916 - 858 pages
...comprehensive by a generic, rather than a specific, description. It thus brings within its purview 'any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...of which shall be to enable any common carrier to 21. 215 US 87, 54 L. Ed. 106, 30 adelphia, etc., R. Co. v. Schubert, 224 S. Ct. 21. US 603, 56 L. Ed.... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 874 pages
...1908, 35 Stat. at L. 66, ch. 149 (US Comp. St. 1913, sec. 8661), which provides that any contract, the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from liability created by this act, shall to that extent be void. But the court held that the Pullman porter... | |
 | Oklahoma. Supreme Court, Edward Bell Green, Frank Dale, John Henry Burford, Robert Lee Williams, Matthew John Kane, Howard J. Parker, Charles Winfield Van Eaton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 680 pages
...Act (Act April 22, 1908. c. 149, 3") Stat. 05 [TJ. S. Cornp. St. 1913, sec. 8(561]"), which provides that: "Any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall ho to enable any common carrier to exempt Itself from any linhility created by this act. shall, to... | |
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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... 
