Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... 15. This Act shall commence and come into operation on the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety. 16. This Act shall not extend to Scotland.1 17. This Act may be cited as the Factors Act, 1889. MASSACHUSETTS EMPLOYERS' LIABILITY ACT OF 1887, WITH AMENDMENTS TO JANUARY 1, 1901. Statute 1887, ch. 270. An Act to extend and regulate the liability of employers to make compensation for personal injuries suffered by employees in their service. 1. Where, after the passage of this Act, personal injury is caused to an employee who is himself in the exercise of due care and diligence at the time, -- (1.) By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, or machinery connected with or used in the business of the employer, which arose from or had not been discovered or remedied owing to, the negligence of the employer, or of any person in the service of the employer and intrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, or machinery were in proper condition; or (2.) By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer, intrusted with and exercising superintendence, whose sole or principal duty is that of superintendence, or, in the absence of such superintendent, of any person acting as superintendent with the authority or consent of such employer;1 or (3.) By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has the charge or control of any signal, switch, locomotive engine, or train upon a railroad, -- the employee, or, in case the injury results in death, the legal representatives of such employee, shall have the same right of compensation and remedies against the employer as if the em 1 Extended to Scotland, with slight modifications, by 63 & 64 Vict. a..."
