 | 1920 - 932 pages
...provisions of the federal Employers' Liabiliry Law, which it is contended have this effect, are as follows: "Sec. 5. Any contract, rule, regulation, or device...the purpose or intent of which shall be to enable aiiy common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this act, shall to that extent be... | |
 | 1920 - 1206 pages
...agents, or employés of such carrier," etc. Section 5 (article 8661, US Compiled Statutes) provides: "Any contract, rule, regulation, or device •whatsoever,...to exempt itself from any liability created by this шогГтспГьиЛаГыаЬиеЕ andllald threToth" act, shall to that extent be void. er gervants... | |
 | 1916 - 1350 pages
...(35 Stat L. 65, c. 149, Сотр. Stat. 1913, § S657), which provides that any contract, the purposQ or intent of which shall be to enable any common carrier...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... | |
 | 1915 - 880 pages
...defense, if indeed its basis is an implied contract, renders nugatory the fifth section of the act, that "any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which the jury should be instructed regarding the legal consequences of such knowledge as justifying the... | |
 | 1918 - 1258 pages
...upon 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 Oornp. St. 1016, § 8GG1). [2] The negligence for which the judgment was recovered... | |
 | William John Tossell - 1920 - 706 pages
...585, and known as the second employer's liability act. It reads as follows: "That any contract, role, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent...carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by Franklin County Appeals. this act, shall to that extent lie void; provided, that in any notion brought... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - 1916 - 886 pages
...interstate carriers liable for certain negligent injuries to employes. Section 5 reads as follows: "That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from liability created by this act, shall to that extent be void ; Provided, that in any action brought... | |
 | Charles Richmond Henderson - 1908 - 472 pages
...enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee. SEC. 5. That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...void : Provided, That in any action brought against anysuch common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act, such common carrier... | |
 | 1908 - 1296 pages
...employees by such common carrier contributed to the injury or death of such employee. SEC. 5. That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...act, shall to that extent be void: Provided, That upon the trial of any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the... | |
 | 1908 - 1210 pages
...employees by such common carrier contributed to the injury or death of snch employee. SEC. 5. That any "Contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void i Provided, That upon the trial of any action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue... | |
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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... 
