Reports of the Industrial Commission..., Volume 16U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 - Industries |
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Page 72 - ... and if served by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would have been delivered in the ordinary...
Page 74 - Where the injury for which compensation is payable under this act was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person other than the employer...
Page 69 - The amount of compensation recoverable under this Act shall not exceed such sum as may be found to be equivalent to the estimated earnings, during the three years preceding the injury, of a person in the same grade employed during those years in the like employment and in the district in which the workman is employed at the time of the injury.
Page 71 - ... shall not be liable to pay compensation for injury to a workman by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment both independently of and also under this act, and shall not be liable to any proceedings independently of this act, except in case of such personal negligence or wilful act as aforesaid.
Page 69 - Act shall give the name and address of the person injured, and shall state in ordinary language the cause of the injury and the date at which it was sustained...
Page 138 - Nothing in this act shall enable any court to entertain a,ny legal proceeding instituted with the object of directly enforcing or recovering damages for the breach of any of the following agreements, namely: 1.
Page 69 - ... unless the claim for compensation with respect to such accident has been made within six months from the occurrence of the accident causing the injury, or, in case of death, within six months from the time of death...
Page 37 - ... without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal...
Page 68 - ... an employee, or his legal representative, shall not be entitled under this article to any right of compensation or remedy against the employer in any case where such employee knew of the defect or negligence which caused the injury and failed, within a reasonable time, to give, or cause to be given, information thereof to the employer...
Page 68 - By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer...