Report of the Commissioner of Labor Made to the General Assembly Volume 15 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...was insuflicient to enable him to obtain employment from other railroad corporations is not disclosed. The declaration does not charge that the Illinois Central Railroad Company refused to state fully and fairly all facts proper to be inserted in such an instrument, or that it inserted or desired to insert in the clearance any statement that was false or injurious to him, or that had no proper.place in his clearance paper. The company was not required to give him a clearance that would enable him to get employment from other companies operating railroads. As we said in the Jenkins case 174 Ill., 398: "Such a card is in no sense a letter of recommendation, and in many cases might, and probably would, be of a form and character which the holder would hesitate and decline to present to any person to whom he was making application for employment." Vhether the charge included in the question formulated by the counsel for the plaintifl_ in error would constitute a cause of action was not presented to the trial court by the declaration, and we agree with the view entertained by the trial court, that the declaration failed to state a cause of action. 9 EMPLOYERS LIABILITY--ConrHwr or INDEMNITY--RIGH'I's or Enrnornn AGAINST Innnmvrron--Beacon Lamp 00. ct al. v. Travelers_ Insurance Co. ct al., 47 Atlantic Reporter, page 57'-9.This was a bill brought in the court of chancery of the State of New Jersey by the Beacon Lamp Company and Aaron Moses, its trustee in bankruptcy, against the Travelers_ Insurance Company and Mary Bardzik to recover an amount for which it had insured the lamp company against loss from liability for damages on account of personal injuries to employees caused by the negligence of the assured. The defendant insurance company demu...