A Treatise on the Law of Personal Injuries: Including Employer's Liability, Master and Servant and the Workmen's Compensation Act, Volume 1

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Callaghan, 1912 - 2819 pages
 

Contents

Servants injured on train vessel or other conveyance
68
Servants of another working upon train or vessel
74
Servants of lessee
81
Authority of employee to employ assistants
88
Public officers
94
CHAPTER IV
100
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS 3744
101
Relation ordinarily determined by contract between
116
Character of appliances
125
PROXIMATE AND CONCURRING CAUSES 4554
137
Intervening efficient cause
143
Rule stated
146
Illustrations of concurrent negligence
161
CHAPTER VI
173
CONTRACTS LIMITING MASTERS LIABILITY 5559
175
CONTRACTS LIMITING LIABILITY 88 5559
179
Validity in general
181
CONTRACTS RELEASING CLAIMS 6065
188
Sufficient that is suitable must be provided
199
Rule where representative of master plans and super intends
200
Rule where furnished as a completed structure
201
Rule where complete appliances for construction are furnished
202
Permanent scaffold
203
Effect of custom
204
74a Safe place improperly used
205
F Elevator shafts 126 In general G Quarries 127 Masters duty
207
Where work is required in a trench prepared Sufficiency of material furnished Covering Guarding 151 Pits 152 Tunnels VIII NOTICE OR KNOWL...
208
General rule
222
Unexploded blasts
230
New Jersey
236
Danger incident to work
237
Duty of warning where exposed to danger from doing of work by other servants
238
Unsafe condition created by third person as result of malicious act of trespasser 88 Doctrine of Kentucky Court 89 True doctrine stated
239
Length of time unsafe condition exists as charging master with notice
241
Permanent structures
242
Rules requiring servant to inspect
256
Customary inspection effect
257
Duty when and when not delegable
258
Ordinary care the rule
259
CHARACTER OF PREMISES A In general 93 Introductory
260
Scope of subdivision B Bridges 95 In general
261
Width
262
Height
263
Customary inspection effect
264
Official inspection 266 Illustrations
265
Mines 98 In general
266
Timbering
267
As a place of work
268
Setting and repair of timbers 102 Precautions to prevent material falling from roof
269
Water in adjacent mine
270
Oregon
273
Tracks
278
Fencing
288
Wisconsin
291
E Side tracks
294
Adoption by
300
Steps
307
In general
311
H Tracks 129 In general 130 Warning effect
314
Extraordinary storms and freshets
315
Depressions or holes in 133 Open ditch
316
Defects in rail 135 Control of power while repairing electric railway
317
Telltale condition of 137 Ties condition
318
Side tracks Rails condition
319
Obstructions upon Piles of sand Clinkers
320
Obstructions at side Lumber piles and rails
321
Truck left near Wagon left near
322
Ice and snow
323
Temporary tracks
324
Private tracks
325
Tracks owned by third person
326
TRENCHES PITS AND TUNNELS 145 In general 146 Excavating and shoring
327
Length of time
338
Time to remedy defects
340
Dangers not reasonably anticipated
342
CHAPTER III
343
Machinery and appliances defined Arrangement and adjustment of parts
344
158a Statutory provisions 159 Enumeration of particular appliances and machinery a Car stakes
346
b Coupling pin c Hand
347
d Horses and mules e Lodging furnished servant f Logging road
348
Ordinary tools
349
Illustrations relating to common tools
351
General rule and illustrations
354
CHARACTER AND EXTENT OF DUTY 162177
364
CHARACTER OR KIND AS QUESTION FOR JURY 178
415
SAFEGUARDS AND PRECAUTIONS 179193
424
184
430
IMPROPER USE OF APPLIANCES 194195
459
SERVANTS SELECTING UNFIT APPLIANCES 196
466
STAGING AND SCAFFOLDS 197221
477
Selection by employee
484
Scaffold known to be defective by viceprincipal directing its use 210 Scaffold designed for other purposes than ordinary
485
Temporary uprights used to support permanent tie beams 212 Employees working near but not upon injured by 213 Taking down defective scaffold
486
Rule in Illinois 217 Rule in North Carolina 218 Rule in Michigan
488
Rule in Missouri
489
New York Labor
490
Pleading Temporary staging in room
491
Masters duty as absolute Construction of wood structure
492
Ohio statute
493
DEFECTS AND REPAIRS
494
A IN GENERAL 222224
495
Delegation of duty as dependent on particular rule
497
B STATUTORY PROVISION AND COMMON LAW RULE IN DIFFERENT STATES 225240
504
Massachusetts
514
Mississippi
526
INSPECTION A EXISTENCE OF DUTY 241258
532
Duty as dependent upon ownership
541
Duty as a continuing
548
Inspection of common tools
554
B SUFFICIENCY 259266
562
INSPECTION OF FOREIGN CARS 267278
577
Duty as performed by employment of competent
578
spectors Contrary doctrine
579
Character of ordinary
580
Expression duty same as if owned explained 271 Distinction between foreign and domestic cars 272 Duty upon discovery of defects
582
Reasonable time to inspect 274 Duty on part of delivering company
583
Rule as applicable to sidings where delivered 276 Rule in South Carolina 277 Foreign cars used in companys own business
584
PROXIMATE CAUSE 279
585
KNOWLEDGE OR NOTICE OF MASTER 280291
586
When chargeable with knowledge
588
Failure to discover
611
General rule
618
Dangers resulting from negligence of fellowservants
628
299a Obvious risks and dangers
634
Experienced servants
642
Where servant holds himself out as experienced Servant transferred to other work
651
Knowledge of master of defect or danger
652
Knowledge of master of incapacity or inexperience of servant
655
Knowledge of servant of danger
658
Particularly hazardous agencies 306 Promise to warn
662
Proximate cause 308 Presumption as to warning having been given
663
Sufficiency of instructions or warning 310 Duty to warn infants
673
310a Duty as applicable to particular acts appliances or em ployees
713
Scope of work
715
master to his servant for personal injuries received while
721
CHAPTER V
750
Preliminary statements 312 System
752
Supervision
756
Danger not anticipated from system used 315 Customary methods
758
Electrical appliances
760
Explosives
761
Operating factories
762
Particular instances and articles
763
Direction of foreman or superior
776
Masters duty to promulgate
778
Reasonableness Question of law ordinarily
795
Sufficiency
798
Promulgation
802
Knowledge by employee
803
Duty of master to enforce
811
Waiver by habitual or customary violation
812
Effect of failure to observe by servant injured
823
Construction
847
Pleading
850
Evidence relating
851
CHAPTER VII
854
What constitutes ordinary care
858
Duty personal to the master Illustrations of rule
862
Retention of servant
864
Masters knowledge of incompetency
866
Presumptions Burden
867
Insane employees
872
Use of intoxicating liquors
874
General reputation
875
What costitutes incompetency 341 Reputation as proof of incompetency
898
Specific acts as proof of incompetency
904
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Page 506 - ... 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer which arose from or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer or of any person in the service of the employer and intrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant, were in proper condition; 2.
Page 102 - The test to determine whether one who renders service to another does so as a contractor or not is to ascertain whether he renders the service in the course of an independent occupation, representing the will of his employer only as to the result of his work, and not as to the means by which it is accomplished.
Page 515 - ... the workman, or in case the injury results in death, the legal personal representatives of the workman, and any persons entitled in case of death, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the workman had not been a workman of nor in the service of the employer, nor engaged in his work.
Page 514 - Under sub-section one of section one, unless the defect therein mentioned arose from, or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer, or of some person in the service of the employer, and entrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant were in proper condition.
Page 102 - So it is said that an independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to the result of the work: Powell v.
Page 507 - When personal injury is caused to an employee who is himself in the exercise of due care and diligence at the time: 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 187 - PL 151, provides, in section 1, " that whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action, and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 514 - ... (1.) By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, or machinery connected with or used in the business of the employer, which arose from or had not been discovered or remedied owing to, the negligence of the employer, or of any person in the service of the employer and intrusted...
Page 93 - The members of the fire department of New Bedford, when acting in the discharge of their duties, are not servants or agents in the employment of the city for whose conduct the city can be held liable, but they act rather, as officers of the city, charged with the performance of a certain public duty or service; and no action will lie against the city for their negligence or improper conduct while acting in the discharge of their official duty.
Page 123 - Where the obstruction or defect caused or created in the street is purely collateral to the work contracted to be done, and Is entirely the result of the wrongful acts of the contractor or his workmen, the rule Is that the employer is not liable; but where the obstruction or defect which occasioned the Injury results directly from the acts which the contractor agrees and Is authorized to do, the person who employs the contractor and authorizes him to do those acts is equally liable to the injured...

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