 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1920 - 584 páginas
...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... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1921 - 688 páginas
...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... | |
 | 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 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1916 - 506 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1916 - 502 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1920 - 1058 páginas
...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'... | |
 | 1914 - 1230 páginas
...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... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1912 - 790 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1916 - 1232 páginas
...to are the following: "(4) You are instructed that under the federal law it is further provided that any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from liability from negligence of the kind here charged by the plaintiff against the defendant, shall to... | |
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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... 
