 | Railroad law - 1913 - 854 pages
...Contracts. — Construing the condemnation in the employers' liability act of April 22, 1908, § 5, of "any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...common carrier to exempt itself from any liability Philadelphia, etc., R. Co. v. Schubert created by this act" as embracing an existing agreement under... | |
 | Francis Buchanan Tiffany - Death by wrongful act - 1913 - 734 pages
...any fraud or misrepresentation made by such employe. Sec. 6245 — 3. That in all such actions any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever, the...purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any employer to exempt himself or itself from any liability created by this act, shall to that extent be... | |
 | Wisconsin - Bills, Private - 1913 - 1472 pages
...enacted for the safety of employes contributed to the injury or death of .such employe. * * * (4) Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any railroad company to exempt itself from any liability created by this section shall to that extent be... | |
 | Wisconsin - Railroad law - 1913 - 266 pages
...shall be to enable any railroad company to exempt itself from any liability created by this section shall to that extent be void: Provided, that in any action brought against any such railroad company under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this section such railroad company... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1913 - 552 pages
...because he knew the defective condition ol the machinery. The employers' liability act provides that any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose, or intent of which shall he to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from any liability created by this act shall to that... | |
 | United States - Panama Canal (Panama) - 1914 - 64 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,...under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief... | |
 | United States - Law - 1914 - 1272 pages
...of sums contributed or paid to insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity to injured employe, etc. Any le the court to have the property appraised for the...the Government, the Department for whose use it is Act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1914 - 1296 pages
...made more emphatic by section 5 of the Employers' Liability Act of 1908, which provides: "That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void." 35 US Stat at L. 66, c. 149, § б (US Сотр. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1324). We are now to reconsider... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1948 - 968 pages
...invalid. Pp. 629-630. 3. Section 5 of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, providing that any contract to enable any common carrier to "exempt itself from any liability created by this chapter shall to that extent be void," does not prevent a railroad from compromising or settling claims... | |
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That 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... 
