 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 286by Connecticut. Bureau of Labor Statistics - 1896Full view - About this book
 | 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 - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 696 pages
...Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad Company t;. Rowan. etc., RR Co., 4 Met. (Mass.) 49, as follows : " He who engages in the employment of another for the...perils incident to the performance of such services." But there are well denned exceptions to this general rule, one of which arises from the obligation... | |
 | Law - 1886 - 646 pages
..."The general rule," says Shaw, C. J., "resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy is, that he who engages in the employment of another...services, for compensation, takes upon himself the natural i°f>Exeh. 343 (1850). » 1 McMullan's Law, 386. « 4 Mete. 49. and ordinary risks and perils incident... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1886 - 780 pages
...Shaw, in Farwell v. Boston & Worcester RR Corporation, reported in 4 Mete. 49, says the general rule is that ''he who engages in the employment of another, for the performance of specified duties for compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1116 pages
...Wheatley v. P., W. & BRR Co., reported in 1 Marvel, 305, 30 Atl. 660, the court said: " "The señera! rule is that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specific duties for compensation takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1172 pages
...said conductor your verdict should be In favor of the defendant [9] The general rule upon the subject is that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specific duties for compensation takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils Incident... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 642 pages
...proper discharge, precisely as though he personally were to discharge them. Conversely, the servant who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services,... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 934 pages
...Justice SUAW, in the leading case of Farwel v. Boston, etc., R. Co., 4 Mete. (Mass.) 49, as follows: ' He who engages in the employment of another for the performance of special duties and services, for compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1406 pages
...this guarded way: "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." But philosophizing about the... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1016 pages
...fairly be said that when the express messenger enters the service, he can easily foresee, and therefore "takes upon himself, the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such service," including the perils arising from the negligence of those engaged in operating the trains,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 884 pages
...general rule governing the relation between master and servant in this respect is, that the servant takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such service, and the law presumes that the contract is adjusted upon this principle. This doctrine has... | |
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