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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... "
The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ... - Page 95
edited by - 1881
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American Negligence Cases: A Complete Collection of All Reported ..., Volume 14

Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 864 pages
...W. & W. R'y Co., 67 111. 498, supra, it was said, " by so entering into this employment " he " took upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the service in which he engaged, among which was the carelessness of his fellow-servants." The same suggestion...
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The Law of Torts: A Concise Treatise on the Civil Liability at Common Law ...

Francis Marion Burdick - Torts - 1905 - 604 pages
...declared that " the rule resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy is, that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance...are not aware of any principle which should except those perils arising from the carelessness and negligence of those who are in the same employment....
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Trade Unionism and Labor Problems

John Rogers Commons - Industrial relations - 1905 - 668 pages
...Met. 49 : " 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...incident to the performance of such services, and, in a legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly." fiction,1 however, has no basis in...
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Lawyers' Reports Annotated, Book 16

Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1042 pages
...fellow servant of the injured party, is the nature of his duties. See ßishop, Non-Cont. Law, 665. He who engages in the employment of another for the performance...perils incident to the performance of such services, including the perils arising from the carelessness and negligence of those who are in the same employment...
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The Encyclopedic Digest of Virginia and West Virginia Reports ..., Volume 6

Thomas Johnson Michie - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 868 pages
...Risks. — 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...perils ^incident to the performance of such services. The perils arising from the carelessness and negligence of those who are in the same employment, are...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determined by the Supreme ..., Volume 118

Iowa. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 870 pages
...breach. The employe undertakes the performance of duties and services for compensation, and in doing so takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks...to the performance of such services, and, in legal assumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly. Farwell v. Corporation, 4 Mete. (Mass.) 49, 55...
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Annual Report of the Illinois State Bar Association

Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1909 - 510 pages
...he said, "resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy is that he who has engaged in the employment of another for the performance of...incident to the performance of such services and in legal contemplation the compensation is adjusted accordingly. And we are not aware of any principle which...
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The Southeastern Reporter, Volume 62

Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1276 pages
...himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services, iind. In legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly. And we are not ¡i\vare of any principle which should except the perils arising from the carelessness and negligence...
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The Liability of Railroads to Interstate Employees: A Study of Certain ...

Philip Joseph Doherty - Employees' liability - 1911 - 388 pages
...Shaw, in the case of Far-well v. Boston & Worcester Railroad Corporation, 4 Mete. 49, says that "... he who engages in the employment of another for the performance...presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly. . . . They are perils incident to the service, and which can be as distinctly foreseen and provided...
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History of Work Accident Indemnity in Iowa

Ezekiel Henry Downey - History - 1912 - 364 pages
...no ' ' ^6 generai rale, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance...presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly." — Chief Justice Shaw's opinion in Farwell vs. Boston and Worcester Railroad Corporation, 4 Metcalf...
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