The general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks... Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York - Página 233por New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - 1870Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - 1887 - 1016 páginas
...fairly be said that when the express messenger enters the service, he can easily foresee, and therefore "takes upon himself, the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such service," including the perils arising from the negligence of those engaged in operating the trains,... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1911 - 686 páginas
...Corp., 4 Met. 49: "The general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, is that he who engages in the employment of another for...to the performance of such services ; and in legal contemplation the compensation is adjusted accordingly. And we are not aware of any principle which... | |
| Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield - 1888 - 720 páginas
...Coldw. 611). "The general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the employment of another for...incident to the performance of such services, and in a legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly. And we are not aware of any principle... | |
| 1888 - 966 páginas
...the defendant? One who engages in the employment of another for the performance of certain duties lor compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of the service, and the pay is presumed to be regulated to cover compensation for such risk. This is a... | |
| 1888 - 912 páginas
...Corporation, 4 Mete. (Mass.), 49, "resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, is that he who engages in the employment of another for...to the performance of such services, and in legal contemplation the compensation is adjusted accordingly. And we are not aware of any principle which... | |
| John Davison Lawson - 1889 - 920 páginas
...liability. He says: "The general rule resulting from considerat1ons as well of justice as of policy is, that he who engages in the employment of another for...compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary r1sks and perils incident to the performance of such services; and, in legal presumption, the compensation... | |
| William Mark McKinney - 1889 - 560 páginas
...not only in this court, but in almost all the courts of the several States and in England, and took upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the service in which he engaged, among which was the carelessness of his fellow-servants." § 22. Illegal... | |
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