Employers' Liability

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

the responsibility of the master for the safety of his workmen which the law implies in certain contracts between capital and labor. In most of the United States this liability is not statutory, but is determined by a suit for damages under the law of negligence . If the employer can show contributory negligence on the part of the workmen, he is exempt from liability in a damage suit. In 1897, 1900, and 1913 laws were passed that insured an employee against injury. Many of the States have compensation laws that apply to public as well as private concerns. Compensation or insurance is provided generally ; either law may be elective or compulsory. In England employers' liability is recognized and regulated by act of Parliament in which the element of contributory negligence is largely ignored. backward and obliquely with its feet, and it is so powerful that a stroke of its foot is said to be sufficient to break a man's leg. Well-trained dogs run in before it and spring at its neck. It cannot fly, but runs very fleetly. The eggs are highly esteemed as food. As much as six or seven quarts of oil have been obtained from the skin of a single bird. The food of the emu consists chiefly of roots, fruit, and herbage. (le'mö), a region of Abyssinia, S. W. ENAREA (enärä-ä), or LIMMU of Shoa, with an area of over 1,100 square miles, and about 40,000 inhabitrising beyond 8,000 feet, with their slopes ants. It is a land of forest-clad hills , covered with the wild coffee plant. Its people, belonging to a stem of the Gallas, town is Saka, near the Gibbe river. are mostly Mohammedans . The chief