 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1138 pages
...bar the action." The federal act does nbt avail the appellant. That act, after declaring the contract void, provided : "That, in any action brought against any such common carrier under and by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum... | |
 | 1917 - 262 pages
...could, perhaps, in some measure, be reached by making section 5 of such act read, in part, as follows : Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void, except that In States having adequate workmen's compensation laws applicable to employees of railroads... | |
 | Kansas - Labor laws and legislation - 1918 - 268 pages
...void; carrier may set off sum paid to insurance, relief, benefit or indemnity of injured employee, etc. That any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...void: Provided, That in any action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, such common carrier may set... | |
 | William Otis Badger - Courts - 1918 - 1030 pages
...the subject, it would be set at rest by the provision of the act itself, which reads (section 5) : "Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void." 35 Stat. 66 (US Comp. St. 1916, § 8661). [2] The negligence for which the judgment was recovered was... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1918 - 1276 pages
...the provision of the act itself, which reads (section 5): "Any contract, rule, regulation, or din-ice whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be...created by this act, shall to that extent be void." 35 Stat. 66 (US Comp. St. 1916, § SCG1). [2] The negligence for which the judgment was recovered was... | |
 | United States - Law - 1918 - 1192 pages
...independent 1917E 900. Invalidating relief department contracts — The section of the Act of 1908, declaring that any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any carrier to exempt itself from liability created by the act, to be void, is valid. Philadelphia, etc.,... | |
 | Arthur B. Honnold - Employers' liability - 1918 - 1014 pages
...amount of negligence attributable to such employé. § 8. No contract exemption — Set-off. — Thnt any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any employer to exempt himself or itself from any liability created by this chapter, shall to that extent... | |
 | Virginia - Law - 1919 - 1856 pages
...Va. L. Reg. NS 661. Sec. 5794. Contracts exempting from liability void ; set-off of insurance. — Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by section fifty-seven hundred and ninety-one, shall to that extent be void ; but in any action brought... | |
 | William Otis Badger - Courts - 1919 - 852 pages
...be left to the jury, as provided in section 5 of article XVIII of the state Constitution. "Sec. 8. That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any employer to exempt himself or itself from any liability created by this act, shall to that extent be... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1206 pages
...agents, or employés of such carrier," etc. Section 5 (article 8661, TJ. S. Compiled Statutes) provides: "Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...of -which shall be to enable any common carrier to exexcept in so far as it prohibits a limitation upon liability by contract, rule, regulation, or device,... | |
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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... 
