 | William Paley - 1847 - 732 pages
...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...perils incident to the performance of such services, and in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly. And we are not aware of any principle,... | |
 | 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 - 1886 - 744 pages
...924. A person " who engages in the employment of a railroad company for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes upon...risks and perils incident to the performance of such service," and these include the perils arising from the carelessness and negligence of those who are... | |
 | 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 - 1859 - 654 pages
...as of policy, is, that he who engages in the emplorment of another for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes upon...perils incident to the performance of such services; and, in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly." In the case of Seymore v. Maddox,... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour - 1860 - 712 pages
...employment of another, for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes tipon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of Young r. New York Central Rail Road Company. such services, and in legal presumption the compensation... | |
 | 1874 - 436 pages
...ruling: "If the plaintiff ran the engine when it was not in good working order, knowing it to be such ; and the particulars in which it was not in good working...uses due diligence in the selection of competent and trust- worthy servants, and furnishes them with suitable means to perform the service in which he employs... | |
 | 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 - 1870 - 712 pages
...the general rule, " that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties and services for compensation, takes upon himself...perils incident to the performance of such services, and, in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly." If a contract may be implied... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - 1870 - 708 pages
...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...perils incident to the performance of such services, and in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly. And we are not aware of any principle... | |
 | 1886 - 546 pages
...Conversely, the servant who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks...perils incident to the performance of such services, and in legal presumption his compensation is adjusted accordingly. Among these risks are those arising... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1864 - 674 pages
...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...perils incident to the performance of such services,, and in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly. And we are not aware of any principle... | |
 | 1874 - 778 pages
...plaintiff held himself out as such a competent Vol. I.] FOED V. FlTCHKCEG RAILROAD CoMPANY. [No. I 1. engineer when he entered into the employment of the...perils incident to the performance of such services, erabracing perils arising from the negligence of those in the same employ as incident to the service."... | |
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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... 
