Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Indiana State Bar AssociationIndiana State Bar Association., 1910 - Bar associations Cumulative lists of papers and addresses in volumes for 1910-24. |
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Page 50 - Act to' recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 53 - It must be conceded that there are such rights in every free government beyond the control of the State. A government which recognized no such rights, which held the lives, the liberty, and the property of its citizens subject at all times to the absolute disposition and unlimited control of even the most democratic depository of power, is after all but a despotism. It is true it is a despotism of the many, of the majority, if you choose to call it so, but it is none the less a despotism.
Page 229 - God, That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 53 - There are limitations on such power which grow out of the essential nature of all free governments. Implied reservations of individual rights, without which the social compact could not exist, and which are respected by all governments entitled to the name.
Page 86 - To employ, for the purpose of maintaining the causes confided to him, such means only as are consistent with truth, and never seek to mislead the judge or any judicial officer by an artifice or false statement of fact or law; 5.
Page 252 - The Association shall meet annually at such time and place as the Executive Committee may select...
Page 80 - The court shall, in every stage of an action, disregard any error or defect in the pleadings or proceedings which shall not affect the substantial rights of the adverse party, and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.
Page 258 - Committee, and if the said committee shall find the complaint or any material part of it to be of such a nature as to require action by the Association, it shall so report to the Association, with its recommendation as to the action to be taken thereon, and it may also report the evidence taken, or any part thereof. The reasonable disbursements of the Committee on Grievances for expenses incurred in any trial, prosecution or investigation may be paid out of the funds of the Association under the...
Page 50 - August first, nineteen hundred and eight, any person employed by the United States as an artisan or laborer in any of its manufacturing establishments, arsenals, or navy-yards, or in the construction of river and harbor or fortification work or in hazardous employment on construction work in the reclamation of arid lands or the management and control of the same, or in hazardous employment under the Isthmian Canal Commission...
Page 161 - Every material allegation of the petition, not controverted by the answer, and every material allegation of new matter in the answer, not controverted by the reply, shall, for the purposes of the action, be taken as true...