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SIR FREDERICK POLLOCK, BART., D.C.L., LL.D.,

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21 & 22 BEAVAN; 3 COMMON BENCH, N. S.;

4 JURIST, N. S.

LONDON:

SWEET AND MAXWELL, LIMITED, 3, CHANCERY LANE.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN & CO.

1910.

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PREFACE TO VOL.. CXI.

NEAR the end of this volume, p. 896, an important judgment of the House of Lords in a Scottish case, Barton's Hill Coal Co. v. Reid, is reproduced from the Jurist with collation of Macqueen's report. Here a tribunal consisting of one English judge decided that the doctrine of the Scottish courts as to employers' liability should conform to the English rule of "common employment," then only twenty years old and not able to show much authority outside the Court of Exchequer, in which it originated. For English purposes the case is notable because it definitely adopted the theory of Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts, namely that a servant injured by the negligence of a fellow-servant about their common business has no remedy against the master because he must be deemed to have accepted that kind of risk as an implied term in the contract of service. This is still the official theory so far as the rule remains applicable. It is true that in another Scottish case some ten years later, Wilson v. Merry, L. R. 1 Sc. & D. 326, 332, Lord Cairns tried to find another reason. The master, he said, can be liable to the servant only for negligence in performing his part of the contract, and the negligence of a fellow-servant whom the master has chosen with due care is not the master's negligence. But this argument seems to assume that the general rule of respondeat superior, which is independent of any personal negligence on the principal's part, is not applicable as between the parties to a contract of service: which surely, with the utmost respect to Lord Cairns, was the very point needing proof. However, Lord Cairns's dictum, whether defensible or not, went on a line too

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