A Treatise on the Federal Employers' Liability and Safety Appliance Acts: With Similar State Statutes and Federal Statutes on Hours of Labor

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W.H. Anderson Company, 1912 - 755 páginas
 

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SECTION PA 17 Effect of Act of 1908 on state legislation continued
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Result of decisions
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Must interstate employee bring his action on the statute?
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Constitutionality of Wisconsin and Nebraska statutes
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APPENDIX
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Act of 1906 validity in District of Columbia and territories 21 Construction of statute
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Report of House Judicial Committee on Federal Employers Liabil
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CHAPTER III
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Interurban and street railway common carriers
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Contributory negligenceStatute
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While engaging in interstate commerce between the states 26 Illustrations on interstate commerce transactions
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CHAPTER IV
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Statute includes everybody Congress could include same per sons in different capacities track repairer telegraph operator
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Car repairer in switching yard 32 Laying additional track on bridge injury by interstate train
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Loading railroad iron rails burden
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While railroad was engaging in interstate commerce 35 When an employee enters on his work or is entitled to the protection of the statute
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When employee enters on interstate work
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Injured servant employed in both interstate and intrastate commerce
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Employees covered by statute
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Relation between the employment and the accident
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Who must inflict injury to render railway company liable 41 Interstate employee injured by negligence of interstate em ployee
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The Nebraska statute
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Validity of statute allowing a recovery for an injury occa sioned by an intrastate employee
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43a Interstate engineer of interstate railroad hauling intrastate trainGoing to work
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Comparative negligence
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APPENDIX C
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No action at common law 16
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Constitutionality of statute allowing recovery for beneficiaries 16
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Deceased without right to recover 16
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Survival of injured employees cause of action 16
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Beneficiaries on death of injured employee 16
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No husband or widow surviving 16
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Next of kin defendant upon employee 16
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CHAPTER VII
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State statutes requiring notice of injury to be given before bringing action
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PART II
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CHAPTER IX
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Resolutions of American Railway Association 148 Object of statuteConstruction
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Hauling or using car not loaded with interstate traffic in interstate train
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Intrastate car on interstate railroad
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Transportation of articles of interstate commerce for an inde pendent express company
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Distance defective car hauled
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Switching
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Belt railroadTerminal road
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Car on spur track
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Used in moving interstate trafficSending car to repair shopMaking up train
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Hauling car not essential to commission of offenseUse of
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ATUTE
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Safety Appliance Acts 4
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CHAPTER XII
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Use of diligence to discover defectsWant of knowledge of defect
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Duty to maintain car in repair is an absolute
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PresumptionDiligence to discover defects and make repairs in transit
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Distinction between an action to recover a penalty and to recover damages 205 Cars in transitConstruction of statute
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Hauling car to nearest repairing point
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Distinction of car nearer than repair shop
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Repairing cars in transit
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Repairs during journey 210 Establishing repair shops and material 211 Knowledge of defect not an element of the offense
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Failure to provide or repair defective handhold
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Use of shimsCommonlaw duty of master not applicable Fellow servants neglectConstruction of statuteHand grips
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Repairing couplersOther act of negligence aiding negligence with reference to couplers
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Failure to equip train with brakes
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CHAPTER XIII
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Who may bring action to recover damagesWhat employees are engaged in interstate commerce
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Proximate cause of injury
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Assumption of risk
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Contributory negligence of plaintiff
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Contributory negligence does not defeat the action
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Two acts of negligence combining to produce injury
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State courts may enforce liability for negligence incurred under statute
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Removal of case to federal court
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Judicial notice 227 Pleading
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Validity of section concerning releases from liability
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APPENDIX
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APPENDIX
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