...set-off of sums contributed or paid to insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity to injured employe, etc. enable the court to have the property appraised for...the Government, the Department for whose use it is Act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief...

...statute is made more emphatic by section 5 of the Employers' Liability Act of 1908, which provides: "That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall to that extent be void." 35 US Stat at L. 66, c. 149, § б (US Сотр. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1324). We are now to reconsider...

...Contracts of purpose or intent of which shall be to enable any such corpora-e]EemPtl('n'Void. tion to exempt itself from any liability created by this...Provided, That in any action brought against any such corporation under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, such corporation may set off therein...

...Constitution, in McNamara v. Washington Terminal Co. 35 App. D. С. 230. Even if § 5, which provides that any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...to enable any common carrier to exempt itself from liability created by the act, shall be to that extent void, is unconstitutional, the provisions of...

...statute is made more emphatic by section 5 of the Employers' Liability Act of 1908, which provides: "That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...of which shall be to enable any common carrier to eiempt itself from any liability created by this act, shall to that extent be void." 35 US Stat at...

...statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee. "Sec. 5. That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief...

...statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee. SEC. 5. That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief...

...statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the death of such employee. Section 5. — Any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has contributed or paid to any insurance, relief...

...statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee. "Sec. 5. That any contract, rule, regulation or device whatsoever,...carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions 368 STALEY v. ICRR Co. [268 II1. of this act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum it has...

...fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery," and "that any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever,...created by this act, shall, to that extent, be void." The provisions of the third section, "that no such employee who may be injured . . . shall be held...