 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...  Journal - Sida 353efter Texas. Legislature. Senate - 1909Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | New Jersey. Supreme Court - 1920 - 584 sidor
...of the 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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | South Carolina. Supreme Court, J. S. G. Richardson, Robert Wallace Shand, Cyprian Melanchthon Efird, William Hay Townsend, Duncan C. Ray, William Munro Shand - 1916 - 634 sidor
...bar the action." The Federal act does not avail the appellant. That act, after declaring the contract void, provided : "That, in any action brought against any such common carrier under and by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, such common carrier may set off therein any sum... | |
 | 1916 - 506 sidor
...such 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 sidor
...not 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 sidor
...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'... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1912 - 790 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1914 - 1230 sidor
...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... | |
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