...Section 54 of the Federal Employers' Liability Act, providing that an employee of a common carrier shall not be held to have assumed the risks of his...contributed to the injury or death of such employee," relates to statutes subjecting carriers in interstate commerce to particular obligations for the safety...

...action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this chapter to recover damages for injuries to, or the death of,...assumed the risks of his employment in any case where such injury or death resulted in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents,...

...action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this chapter to recover damages for injuries to, or the death of,...held to have assumed the risks of his employment in auy case where such injury or death resulted in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the...

...to, or the death of, any of its employees, such employee shall not be held to have assumed the risk of his employment in any case where the violation...contributed to the injury or death of such employee, or the death or injury was caused by negligence. SEC. 4. That any contract, rule, regulation or device...

...common carried under it an employee "shall not be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence in any case where the violation by such common carrier...contributed to the injury or death of such employee". (Public No. 100, HR 20310. Act approved April 22, 1908.) At the time of this accident there was upon...

...law are very numerous. By section 4 of the Federal Employers' Liability Act it is provided that the " employee shall not be held to have assumed the risks...contributed to the injury or death of such employee." In Seaboard Air Line v. Horton, 233 US 492, 503, the Supreme Court said: " It seems to us that § 4,...

...such employee. SEC. 4. That in any action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this Act to recover damages for...contributed to the injury or death of such employee. SEC. 5. That any contract, rule, regulation, or device whatsoever, the purpose or intent of which shall...

...of such employee. Sec. 4. In any action brought against any common carrier under or by virtue of any of the provisions of this act to recover damages for...such employee shall not be held to have assumed the risk of his employment in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted...

...USC §§ 53, 54, which bar pleadings of, respectively, contributory negligence and assumption of risk "in any case where the violation by such common carrier...contributed to the injury or death of such employee." " But it is § 1 of the Federal Employers' 28 45 USC § 1 et seq. 29 See note 4 and text. 30 In ordinary...

...instance, as the act known as the Safety Appliance Act. Section 4 of the Liability Act is : " Such employe shall not be held to have assumed the risks of his...common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employes contributed to the injury or death of such employe." And in the case Of Seaboard Air Line...