| New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1916 - 848 pages
...a verdict upon the ground stated was properly denied. The first section of the federal act provides that every common carrier by railroad while engaging in commerce between any of the several states or territories * * * shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injurywhile he is employed... | |
| New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1920 - 584 pages
...cases." 35 Stat. at L., p. 65, cli. 149; Com/?. Stai. 1913, § 8057. Section 1 of the act is as follows : "Every common carrier by railroad while engaging in commerce between any of the several States or Territories, or between any of the States and Territories, * * * shall Lie liable in damages to... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1917 - 806 pages
...taken a somewhat different view of the Federal employers' liability act. The first section of that act reads as follows : "SECTION 1. That every common carrier...engaging in commerce between any of the several States or Territories, or between any of the States 542 189 MICHIGAN REPORTS. [Dec. and Territories, or between... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1916 - 806 pages
...a common carrier railroad, while engaged in interstate commerce — 442 185 MICHIGAN REPORTS. [Apr. "shall be liable in damages to any person suffering...while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce * * * for such injury * * * resulting * * * by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence,... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1917 - 824 pages
...liability upon which plaintiff bases his case: "SEC. 2. That every common carrier by railroad * * * shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in any. of said jurisdictions, * * * for such injury or death resulting in whole or in part from the negligence... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1918 - 854 pages
...Section 2 of the so-called Federal employers' liability act provides: "That every common carrier * * * shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier * * * for such injury * * * resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers,... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1913 - 804 pages
...enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, that every common carrier by railroad while engaging in commerce between any of the several States or territories, or between any of the States and territories, or between the District of Columbia and... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1918 - 716 pages
...Federal Employers' Liability act, which provides that every common carrier by railroad, while engaged in commerce between any of the several States, shall...in such commerce, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative," etc. It is the employment that determines whether... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1917 - 724 pages
...Liability act, which provides that every common carrier by railroad engaged in inter-State commerce shall be liable in damages to any person suffering...in such commerce, or, in case of the death of such employee, to his or her personal representative for the benefit of the surviving widow or husband and... | |
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