 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...  Report - Page 75by United States. Industrial Commission - 1900Full view - About this book
 | William Paley - 1847 - 732 pages
...been maintained. — The general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice, as of policy is, that he who engages in the employment of another...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
...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,...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... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Thomas Durfee - 1857 - 484 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 the performance of specified duties and * Murray v. South Carolina Railroad Co. 1 McMullen, (So. Car.) R. 385 ; Coon v. The Syracuse and Utica... | |
 | 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
...resulting from considerations, as well of justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the emplorment of another for the performance of specified duties...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
...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 of another,...specified duties and services, for compensation, takes tipon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of Young r. New... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, Edwin Tyrrell Hurlstone, Francis Joseph Coltman - 1866 - 662 pages
...said his Honour in that ease, " resulting from consid112a erations as well of justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the employment of another...performance of specified duties and services, for liff lays down the proposition distinctly that the servant must encounter the ordinary risks of his... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell, Thomas Durfee - 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 - 1870 - 708 pages
...Company, 1 McMullen, 385. The general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the employment of another...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... | |
 | 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
...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...perils incident to the performance of such services, and, in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly." If a contract may be implied... | |
 | 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...perils incident to the performance of such services.' But there are well-defined exceptions to this general rule, one of which arises from the obligation... | |
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