| Employers' liability - 1915 - 1518 pages
...Liability Act declaring that any contract, rule, regulation or device, the purpose or intent of which will be to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by the company, shall be void, includes agreements made before the statute was enacted as well as future... | |
| United States - 1938 - 1408 pages
...of section 5 of the Federal act. That section provided : Any contract, rule, regulation, or devicej whatsoever the purpose or intent of which shall be...created by this act shall to that extent be void. In other words, such a scheme of charging notice to an employee is a device to escape liability. There... | |
| North Carolina - Session laws - 1913 - 542 pages
...That any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever, the purpose and intent of which shall be to exempt itself from any liability created by this...void: Provided, that in any action brought against such common carrier, under and by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, such common carrier... | |
| New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1098 pages
...upon the subject it would be set at rest by the provision of the act itself, which reads (§ 5) : " Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this Act, shall to that extent be void." (35 US Stat. at Large, 66, § 5.) The negligence for which the judgment was recovered was that of a... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1942 - 936 pages
...was void under § 5 of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, 35 Stat. 65, 66, which in part provides: "Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this Act, shall to that extent be void . . ." Opinion of the Court. 315 U. S The trial judge held the agreement did not bar Duncan's suit,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1948 - 968 pages
...invalid. Pp. 629-630. 3. Section 5 of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, providing that any contract to enable any common carrier to "exempt itself from any liability created by this chapter shall to that extent be void," does not prevent a railroad from compromising or settling claims... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1953 - 894 pages
...systematic solicitation of such agreements would run afoul of § 5 of the Federal Employers' Liability Act. "Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...to exempt itself from any liability created by this chapter, shall to that extent be void . . . ." 45 USC § 55. 367 DOUGLAS, J., dissenting. private arrangements... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1953 - 912 pages
...systematic solicitation of such agreements would run afoul of § 5 of the Federal Employers' Liability Act. "Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...to exempt itself from any liability created by this chapter, shall to that extent be void . . . ." 45 USC § 55. 367 DOUGLAS, J., dissenting. private arrangements... | |
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