 The general rule is that one who has contracted with a competent and fit person exercising an independent employment to do a piece of work, not in itself unlawful or attended with danger to others, according to the contractor's own methods, and without...  Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan - Page 415by Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Story, Charles Pelham Greenough - Agency (Law) - 1882 - 730 pages
...1843, No. 320, p. 150. See The Agricola, Id. pp. 157, 159. [This general rule seems well settled, that one who has contracted with a competent and fit person,...exercising an independent employment, to do a piece of work free from the control of the employer, and according to his own methods, will not be liable for the... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 926 pages
...899, § 22, as follows: "The gener.il rale is that one who has contracted with a competent and lit person exercising an independent employment to do...answerable for the wrongs of such contractor, his sub-contractor or his servants committed in the prosecution of such work. An independent contractor... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1320 pages
...Independent contractors. In 1 Thompson on Negligence, § 621, It Is said: "It Is a general rule that one who has contracted with a competent and fit person,...to do a piece of work, not In Itself unlawful, or of such a nature that It Is likely to become a nuisance, or to subject third persons to unusual danger,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1362 pages
...work. In Thompson on Negligence, vol. 1, § 021. It Is said : "It le a general rule that one who lias contracted with a competent and fit person, exercising an Independent employment to do a piece of work * * * will not be answerable for the wrongs of such contractor. liis subcontractors or his servants,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 864 pages
...cited in Fink v. Missouri Furnace Co., 82 Id. 283, as recognizing and affirming the principle " that one who has contracted with a competent and fit person...answerable for the wrongs of such contractor, his subcontractor, or his servants, committed in the prosecution of such work. An independent contractor... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 922 pages
...to do work not in itself dangerous to others or unlawful, according to the contractor's own method, and without his being subject to control, except as...answerable for the wrongs of such contractor, his subcontractor or servante, committed in the prosecution of his work. Nice questions arise in the application... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 740 pages
...FODBTII DEPARTMENT, MARCH TERM, 189*. and fit person, exercising an independent employment, to do apiece of work, not in itself unlawful, or attended with danger to others, according to the contractors methods, and without his being subject to control, except as to the results of his work,... | |
 | Norman Fetter - Carriers - 1897 - 888 pages
...to do work not in itself dangerous to others or unlawful, according to the contractor's own method, and without his being subject to control, except as to the results of his work, is not answerable for the wrongs of such contractor, his sub contractors or servants, committed in... | |
 | Idaho. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 904 pages
...SD 285, 49 NW 1054 ; Hannicker v. Lepper, 20 SD 371, 129 Am. St. 938, 107 NW 202, 6 LRA, NS, 243.) One who has contracted with a competent and fit person...the wrongs of such contractor, his subcontractors or servants, committed in the prosecution of such work. (2 Thompson on Negligence, p. 899, sec. 22; Crenshaw... | |
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