 In ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrong-doer, you must look to the wrong-doer himself or to the first person in the ascending line who is the employer and has control over the work. You cannot go further back and make the employer of that...  Elements of the Law of Torts for the Use of Students - Page 40by Melville Madison Bigelow - 1896 - 416 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott, Henry Bompas, Edmund Lumley - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 684 pages
...I apprehend it to be a clear rule, in ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrong-doer, that you must look to the wrong-doer himself or to the...back, and make the employer of that person liable. The question here is, whether Davis, who caused the accident, was employed at the time in doing Kennedy's... | |
 | Law - 1876 - 672 pages
...according to a definition by Justice Willes in Murray v. Currie, LR 6, CP 24. Justice Willes there says: " In ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrongdoer,...the first person in the ascending line, who is the employer,and has the control over the work. You cannot go further back and make the employer of that... | |
 | Thomas Beven - Employers' liability - 1881 - 188 pages
..." I apprehend it to be a clear rule, in ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrongdoer, that you must look to the wrongdoer himself, or to the...back and make the employer of that person liable." Common employment has been attempted to be defined as the employment of all the persons employed for... | |
 | Charles G. Fall - Employers' liability - 1883 - 200 pages
...apprehend," he says, "it to be a clear rule, in ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrongdoer, that you must look to the wrong-doer himself, or to the...ascending line, who is the employer and has control of the work." Where there are other workmen vested with authority which the wrong-doer is bound to... | |
 | Sir Walworth Howland Roberts, George Wallace - Employers' liability - 1885 - 610 pages
...employer directs very act. The result may be put in the words of Willes, J., in Murray v. Ciirrie (b). "In ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrongdoer,...back, and make the employer of that person liable "(c). We must now proceed to consider the cases to which the rule as to the non-liability of an employer... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1885 - 568 pages
...other ; " there the relation of master and servant does not exist, and the employer is not liable V ' In ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrong-doer, you must 1 Bartonshill Coal Co. v. Seid, 3 Macq. 266, 283 (1858). * Turberville v. Stampe, I Ld. Raym. 264 (end... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1885 - 544 pages
...other;" there the relation of master and servant does not exist, and the employer is not liable *.' ' I Q ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrong-doer, you must 1 Bartonshill Coal Co. v. Reid, 3 Macq. 266, 283 (1858). look to the wrong-doer himself or to the first... | |
 | MARSHALL D. EWELL - 1888 - 368 pages
...omissions of such a one about the performance of his undertaking his employer is not liable to strangers. " In ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrong-doer,...back and make the employer of that person liable." point he does interfere and assume specific control, renders himself answerable, not as master, but... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Torts - 1890 - 694 pages
...' there the relation of master and servant does not exist, and the employer is not liable " (c). " In ascertaining who is liable for the act of a wrong-doer,...further back and make the employer of that person liable " (d). He who controls the (4) Crompton J., Sadler v. Hm- of importance by a great master of lock (1855)... | |
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