| William Lamartine Snyder - Antitrust law - 1906 - 654 pages
...contributory negligence was slight and that of the employer was gross in comparison, but the damages phall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee. All questions of negligence and contributory negligence shall be for the jury. Sec. 3. Employers' Liability... | |
| Campaign literature - 1906 - 322 pages
...damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery -where his contributory negligence was slight and that of the employer was gross in comparison, but... | |
| American Federation of Labor - Labor unions - 1906 - 678 pages
...damages for personal Injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery where his contributory negligence was slight and that of the employer was gross in comparison, but... | |
| West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1907 - 208 pages
...shall not be a bar to recovery where the negligence is gross, and the contributory negligence is slight but the "damages shall be diminished by the jury in...amount of negligence attributable to such employee," and further that "all questions of negligence and contributory negligence shall be for the jury"; (3)... | |
| 1907 - 638 pages
...feature of the act, that the doctrine of comparitive negligence is adopted. The statute provides that "the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion...amount of negligence attributable to such employee." This doctrine is not a part of the common law and is generally considered a dangerous one. While the... | |
| Law - 1907 - 548 pages
...damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery where his contributory negligence was slight and that of the employer was gross in comparison, but... | |
| Law - 1907 - 402 pages
...damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery where his contributory negligence was slight and that of the employer was gross in comparison, but... | |
| United States - Law - 1907 - 1664 pages
...resulted in his death, the fact tliat the emgence no bar to re-, t • t MA * i «i ± i« tu » i ployee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery where hirf contributory negligence was slight and that of the employer was gross in comparison, but... | |
| Joseph Harding Underwood - Civil service - 1907 - 236 pages
...injuries to an employe, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employe may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery where his contributory negligence was slight and that of the employer was gross in comparison, but... | |
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