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... Reports of Cases Determined in the Appellate Courts of Illinois - Página 459por Illinois. Appellate Court, Martin L. Newell, Mason Harder Newell, Walter Clyde Jones, Keene Harwood Addington, Basil Jones, James Max Henderson, Ray Smith - 1914Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| United States. Supreme Court - 1867 - 732 páginas
...contractor or his workmen, the rule is that the employer is not liable; but where the obstruction or delect which occasioned the injury results directly from...those acts is equally liable to the injured party.* Implied authority was doubtless shown to construct the area, if it was done with proper precautions... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1869 - 624 páginas
...rule is that the employer is not liable; but where the obstruction or defect which occasioned tiie injury results directly from the acts which the contractor...those acts is equally liable to the injured party." The same distinction is fully recognized in Starrs v. The City of Otica, 17 NY 104. The recovery in... | |
| 1874 - 436 páginas
...wrongful acts of the contractor or his workmen, the rule is that the employer is not liable ; but when the obstruction or defect which occasioned the injury...results directly from the acts which the contractor agreed and was authorized to do, the person who employs the contractor and authorizes him to do these... | |
| Francis Wharton - 1874 - 960 páginas
...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 agreed and was authorized to do, the person who employs the contractor and authorizes him to do those... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1876 - 628 páginas
...workmen, the rule is that the employer is not liable ; but when the obstruction or defect, which occasions the injury, results directly from the acts which the...who employs the contractor and authorizes him to do these acts, is equally liable to the injured party (See also, to the same effect, Hole agt. Railway... | |
| New York (State). Superior Court (New York), James Clark Spencer, Samuel Jones - 1878 - 636 páginas
...within the terms of Ms employment, and the defendant is responsible as if he did the act himself. " When the injury results directly from the acts which the...agrees, and is authorized to do ; the person who employs and authorizes him to do those acts, is equally liable to the injured party" (lbid. ; Ellis v. Sheffield... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 888 páginas
...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...authorized to do, the person who employs the contractor aud authorizes him to do those acts is equally liable to the injured party." See, also, Chicago v.... | |
| 1906 - 1122 páginas
...defect which occasioned the injury results directly from the acts which the contractor agreed, and was authorized to do, the person who employs the contractor...those acts is equally liable to the injured party." The plaintiff below should have shown by competent evidence, first, that Britt was a negligent and... | |
| 1898 - 2046 páginas
...acts of the contractor or his workmen, the rule is that the employer is not responsible. But where the obstruction or defect which occasioned the injury...results directly from the acts which the contractor agreed and was authorized to do, the person who employs the contractor, and authorizes him to do those... | |
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