Chief Justice Shaw
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
Shaw
in the texts
The Law of Torts
Chief Justice of Massachusetts whose judgments are treated as the principal source of both the social-duty rationale for master's liability and the fellow-servant (common employment) doctrine.
It would vary with the circumstances of every case.
The servants need not be about the same kind of work:
A better account was given by Chief Justice Shaw of Massachusetts.
The Genius of the Common Law
A Massachusetts judge credited with laying down the fellow-servant doctrine in a leading judgment.
It was a Massachusetts case in which, within a few years, Chief Justice Shaw fairly took it in hand, and laid down the ‘fellow-servant doctrine’ in one of his most able judgments.