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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... "
Laws Passed by the ... Legislature of the State of Texas - Page 280
by Texas - 1909
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Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the ..., Volume 5; Volume 153

Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - 1913 - 996 pages
...enacted for the safety of employes contributed to the injury or death of such employe. ' ' Section 5. That any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...shall to that extent be void: Provided; That in any such action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court And ..., Volume 93

New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1920 - 584 pages
...of the injury or death for which said action was brought." We think that no evasion of the provision that "any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...of which shall be to enable any common carrier to 93 NJL Drago v. Central Railroad Co. of NJ exempt itself from any liability created by this act shall...
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Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in ..., Volume 294

Illinois. Supreme Court - 1921 - 688 pages
...also the law that such a contract is not binding. Section 5 of the Federal Liability act provides : "Any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void." There was/ no impropriety in the giving of the instruction, as it stated the law correctly. The seventh...
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Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 106

South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - 1916 - 644 pages
...under the Federal Employers' Liability Act. Section 5 of that act, as amended in 1908, is as follows : "Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...shall to that extent be void: Provided, That in any Rep.] April Term, 1916. action brought against any such common carrier under or by virtue of any of...
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Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Supreme Court of ..., Volume 104

South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - 1916 - 634 pages
...bar the action." The Federal act does not avail the appellant. That act, after declaring the contract void, provided : "That, in any action brought against any such common carrier under and by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 82

1916 - 506 pages
...such services are performed cannot be regarded as an evasion of | 5 of such Act, •which provides "that any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...created by this Act shall to that extent be void." If a contract, that is to have, if valid, the necessary effect to exempt the carrier from such liability,...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 83

1916 - 502 pages
...not been passed upon by US Supreme Court. The provision in the federal Employers' Liability Act is that : "Any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...itself from any liability created by this act, shall be to that extent void." The Mondou case did not have before it any question of insurance in the relief...
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The Federal Reporter, Volume 264

1920 - 1058 pages
...existing as to future contracts and regulations of the described character cannot be doubted. The words, 'the purpose or Intent of which shall be to enable...exempt itself from any liability created by this act,' do not refer simply to an actual intent of the parties to circumvent the statute. The 'purpose or intent'...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 224

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1912 - 790 pages
...comprehensive by a generic, rather than a specific, description. It thus brings within its purview "any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...exempt itself from any liability created by this Act." It includes every variety of agreement or arrangement of this nature; and stipulations, contained in...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 142

1914 - 1230 pages
...Employers' Liability Act of 1908, which provides: "That any contract, rule, regulation, or devic« whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall be...created by this act, shall to that extent be void." 35 US Stat. at L. 66, c. 149, § б (DS Сотр. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1324). We are now to reconsider...
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