A Treatise on the Federal Employers' Liability and Safety Appliance Acts, and on the Federal Statutes on Hours of Labor, Including Interstate Commerce Commission's Rules and Diagrams for Equipment of Cars

William Wheeler Thornton

W. H. Anderson Company, 1916 - Broj stranica: 1012

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ABOLITION OF FELLOW SERVANT RULE SECTION PAGE 1 Object and purpose of Act of 1908	1

Rule of fellow servant in European countries	4

Quebec and Mexico	6

CHAPTER II	7

fellow servants negligence	11

Validity of statute as to past contracts of employment	14

Limiting statute to employees of railroad companies Fourteenth Amendment	15

Validity of statute classifying instrumentalities	18

Question for juryDamages	319

CHAPTER XIII	320

How question raised to secure right of appeal	322

What questions can and cannot be raised on appeal	324

Amount in controversy	325

PART II	327

CHAPTER XIV	329

Resolution of American Railway Association	332

Power of Congress to enact Statute of 1908	19

Constitutionality of Wisconsin and Nebraska statute	23

Invalidity of Act of 1906	24

The parts of Act of 1906 rendering it void	25

Congress can only legislate concerning interstate business	27

Interrelation of interstate and intrastate commerce as effecting con stitutionality of act	29

Effect of Act of 1908 on state legislation continued	31

Result of decisions	34

Effect of repeal of federal statute	35

Must interstate employee bring his action on the statute?	37

Act of 1906 validity in District of Columbia and territories	40

CHAPTER III	43

SECTION	46

36	59

Working on bridgeRepairing telegraph linesInstalling block	61

Effect on the course and current of interstate commerceInstru	70

Track repairer	76

Laying additional track on bridge injury by interstate train	82

Pullman car employeesExpress agentRailroad surgeons mal	104

When an employee enters on his work or is entitled to the protection	111

Validity of statute allowing a recovery for an injury occasioned	117

Interstate engineer of interstate railroad hauling intrastate train	125

SECTION PAGE 85 Widow recovering for death of her husbandGeorgia statute	128

Contributory negligence defined	131

Contributory negligence of plaintiff before defendants negligence	138

Contributory negligence of deceased	142

Apportionment of damages	143

Epitome of Georgia cases	144

Comparative negligence in Illinois	148

Negligence a relative term	150

Illinois rule extended	151

Want of ordinary care defeats a recovery	153

Failure to exercise ordinary care more than slight negligence	155

Mere preponderence of defendants negligence not sufficient Defendants clearly exceeding plaintiffs negligence	156

Gross and slight negligence distinguished	157

Recovery by a railway employee	159

Plaintiffs negligence compared with defendants	162

Willful injury by defendantSlight negligence of plaintiff	164

Jury must compare the negligence of the defendant with that of the plaintiff	165

IllustrationEngine striking hand carUnlawful speed	166

Admiralty suitsApportionment of damages	167

Origin of admiralty rule	169

Rule in admiralty commended	171

Difficulty of apportioning damages	172

Assumption of risk	173

Negligence of plaintiff necessary to concur with defendants to pro duce the injury	175

Statute does not adopt a theory of slight ordinary and gross negli gence	177

Court telling jury particular acts constitute contributory negligence	179

Rules of contributory negligence must be considered	180

When contributory negligence does not diminish damages	182

Statute	183

Practice under Wisconsin statute	197

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER VI	198

138	201

Assumption of risk only abolished in part 127 The Horton case as an example of assumption of riskInstructions 205	205

Violation of federal statute enacted for safety of employees	208

Negligence of carrier as a fellow servant	210

140	213

Beneficiary or widow cannot maintain action 214	214

Judgment under state statute or at common law as a bar to action	215

latter Statute of limitations	216

Action by foreign personal administrator	217

Constitutionality of statute allowing recovery for beneficiary	218

Failure of deceased to bring action 142 Instantaneous death	219

CHAPTER VIII	221

No beneficiary in existence or designated by the statute	222

Separation of deceased employee and his wifeSteps towards secur	223

SECTION PAGE 150 Next of kin determined by state statute	225

Who are dependent on deceased	226

Bastard	227

Emancipated child	228

Existence of a beneficiary a jurisdictional fact	229

Statute of limitations	230

Who brings action in case of death	233

Costs	234

Declarations of deceased	235

CHAPTER IX	236

Fatal injury before the amendment of 1910	237

Haul used and train defined	238

Pecuniary damages only given to beneficiary	239

Pecuniary loss defined	240

Rule for measurement of damage differs according to relation of beneficiary	242

Damages by way of solatium	243

Minor childs damages	244

Measure of damages	245

Use of annuity tables	250

Amount of damagesIllustrations	251

Contributory negligence reducing the amount of recovery	253

178a Instructions on contributory negligence reducing damages other wise recoverable	256

Apportionment of damages among the beneficiaries	258

Distribution of proceeds of judgment	259

Damages recoverable when there is a survival of deceaseds right of action	262

What contracts of release are forbidden	265

Receipt of relief money	272

Joinder of action under federal statute and a common law action	288

Complaint or petition by employee	294

Complaint for beneficiaries	301

By what law sufficiency of complaint tested	310

SECTION PAGE 213 Notice of injury received	314

EvidenceBurden	315

Competency of witness	317

Constitutionality of statute	334

Federal control of interstate commerce	337

Interpretation of statute	339

State legislation concerning safety appliances	340

Common carrier and railroad defined	344

CHAPTER XV	346

What is interstate commerce	347

Illustrations of interstate commerce	349

Interterritorial commerceAct of 1903	351

Car in use what	356

Transportation of articles of interstate commerce for an independent	362

Car on spur track	368

Temporary suspension of transportation	374

United States against Geddes denied	380

Effect of the case of Southern Railway Co against United States	390

Without the necessity of men going between the ends of cars	405

SECTION PAGE 274 Insufficient operation of coupler	410

Preparation of coupler for coupling	411

Question for jury	412

State statute on same subject applicable to intrastate commerce	414

Handholds on roof of carSill stepsHandbrakesLaddersRun ning boards	415

Air hose coupling chain and appliances obviating necessity for hand holds	416

CHAPTER XVII	418

Use of diligence to discover defectsWant of knowledge of defect	420

Duty to maintain car in repair is an absolute one	422

PresumptionDiligence to discover defects and make repairs in transit	426

Distinction between an action to recover a penalty and to recover damages	435

Hauling car to nearest repairing point	441

Destination of car nearer than repair shop	444

Removal from a repair point without statutory repairs being made	445

Repairing cars in transit	446

Repairs during journey	449

Failure to provide or repair defective handhold	451

Burden to show right to remove car	453

Use of shimsCommonlaw duty of master not applicable Fellow servants neglectConstruction of statuteHandgrips	455

Repairing couplersOther act of negligence aiding negligence with reference to couplers	457

Failure to equip train with brakes	458

303a Air brakes on transfer trains from one yard to another Train defined	462

CHAPTER XVIII	467

Who may bring action to recover damageWhat employees are engaged in interstate commerce	468

Proximate cause of injury	469

Assumption of risk	471

Contributory negligence of plaintiff	477

Contributory negligence does not defeat the action	485

Two acts of negligence combining to produce injury	486

State courts may enforce liability for negligence incurred under statute	487

Removal of case to federal court	488

Judicial notice	489

Validity of section concerning release from liability	491

CHAPTER XIX	492

Joint action	494

Sufficiency of proofBurden	495

Expert testimony	498

Directing the verdict	499

Amount of penalty	500

Penalty for failure to equip with grabirons	501

Writ of error	503

Twice in jeopardy	504

CHAPTER XX	505

Constitutionality of statute	506

Validity of statute	510

RemedialPurpose of act	512

Liability absolutePermitVoluntary action on part of employee	513

Analogous to other remedial statutes	514

Employees subject to act	515

On duty and off duty as defined by the act	516

Casualty or unavoidable accidentAct of God	517

Period of consecutive hours	519

Hours of employmentInspection of engine by engineer	521

Deducting time lost by failure of locomotive to get up steamBad coal	522

Time lost by side trackingDeducting	523

Delay in starting caused by another train	524

Fireman or other employee engaged in watching engine	525

ConsecutiveContinuousUnbroken intervals of time	527

Proviso to Section 2TowersPlaces Stations	530

Orders	531

Period as used in statute	533

Provisos of Section 3CasualtyUnavoidable accident	534

Terminal as used in act defined	535

Suspension of operation of statute for a given trip	536

Occurrence of conditions ordinarily expected	537

Sudden illness of operator	538

Economical reasons	539

Liability to passenger for delay	540

Question for jury	541

APPENDIX	557

House Report on Amendments of 1910	570

Senate Report on Amendments of 1910	576

APPENDIX C	599

Ladders Handbrakes Handholds	606

Order of Interstate Commerce Commission Designating the Number	612

Order of Interstate Commerce Commission Extending the Period Within	660

Boiler Inspection Law	683

Boiler InspectionAmendatory Act	689

Hours of Labor for Railroad	692

Administrative Rulings of the Interstate Commerce Commission	698

APPENDIX	918

APPENDIX I	963

Next of kin dependent on employee	968

303b Trains too long to operate with air brakes 466	996

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Naslov	A Treatise on the Federal Employers' Liability and Safety Appliance Acts, and on the Federal Statutes on Hours of Labor, Including Interstate Commerce Commission's Rules and Diagrams for Equipment of Cars
Autor	William Wheeler Thornton
Suradnik	United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
Izdanje	3
Izdavač	W. H. Anderson Company, 1916
Izvornik iz	Michigansko sveučilište
Digitalizirano	21 ruj 2007
Duljina	Broj stranica: 1012

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