Beck v. Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. The action was in tort for the recovery of damages for injury received by Beck, defendant in error, while in the employ of the company, plaintiff in error.
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On error to the Supreme Court. The action was in tort for the recovery of damages for injury received by Beck, defendant in error, while in the employ of the company, plaintiff in error. In its defence the company proved the establishment by it and some of ‘its employes of a relief department, and put in evidence the regulations governing the same, the pertinent parts of which are as follows : “ 1. The relief department is a department of the company’s servants, in the executive charge of a superintendent, whose directions in carrying out its regulations are to be complied with, subject to…
1Opinion of the Court
*236The opinion of the court was delivered by
Magie, Chief Justice.
The argument before us has been mainly directed to the assignments of errors based on the rulings of the trial judge indicated in the statement prefacing this opinion.
The bills of exception show that the rulings in question were made by the learned judge because he deemed the contract between the company and an employe, member of the relief fund, to be void, as opposed to public policy.
In the argument here the rulings are supported on that ground and also upon the further grounds that the contract lacks consideration; that it is…
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