The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad Cases in the Courts of Last Resort in America and EnglandLawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson Edward Thompson Company, 1881 Covers cases decided [1879?]-1895. |
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... performance of their duties , and are guilty of such negligence as precludes them from a recovery of damages for any injury resulting therefrom . If the case is barely such , the negli- gence is a conclusion of law , and ought not SMITH ...
... performance of their duties , and are guilty of such negligence as precludes them from a recovery of damages for any injury resulting therefrom . If the case is barely such , the negli- gence is a conclusion of law , and ought not SMITH ...
Halaman 26
... performance are to be ascer- tained as facts , a jury alone can determine what is negligence , and whether it has been proven . Westchester & Philadelphia R. R.Co. v . McElwee , 17 P. F. S. , 311 . It is the duty of courts , in cases of ...
... performance are to be ascer- tained as facts , a jury alone can determine what is negligence , and whether it has been proven . Westchester & Philadelphia R. R.Co. v . McElwee , 17 P. F. S. , 311 . It is the duty of courts , in cases of ...
Halaman 80
... performance of , if no such special agreement had been made ; and , by the terms of that con- tract , Merry was " to act and discharge all the duties of station agent of defendant at the St. Louis station . " Other duties were imposed ...
... performance of , if no such special agreement had been made ; and , by the terms of that con- tract , Merry was " to act and discharge all the duties of station agent of defendant at the St. Louis station . " Other duties were imposed ...
Halaman 92
... performance of his duties . But no such presumption is , or should be raised of his willingness to assume the risks growing out of the possible negli- gence of one , who , while a servant to their common master , stands to himself in ...
... performance of his duties . But no such presumption is , or should be raised of his willingness to assume the risks growing out of the possible negli- gence of one , who , while a servant to their common master , stands to himself in ...
Halaman 97
... performance of specified duties and ser- vices , for compensation , takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services , and , in legal presumption , the compensation is adjusted ...
... performance of specified duties and ser- vices , for compensation , takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services , and , in legal presumption , the compensation is adjusted ...
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Halaman 591 - No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation ; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes.
Halaman 599 - Gray, 84, is applicable, that if the different parts 'are so mutually connected with and dependent on each other, as conditions, considerations or compensations for each other, as to warrant a belief that the legislature intended them as a whole, and that, if all could not be carried into effect, the legislature would not pass the residue independently, and some parts are unconstitutional, all the provisions which are thus dependent, conditional or connected, must fall with them.* Or, as the point...
Halaman 144 - No variance between the allegation in a pleading and the proof is to be deemed material, unless it has actually misled the adverse party to his prejudice in maintaining his action or defense upon the merits.
Halaman 95 - The general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services, and in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly.
Halaman 622 - ... no such company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Halaman 294 - No law shall be passed by the general assembly granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town or incorporated village, without requiring the consent of the local authorities having the control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied by such street railroad.
Halaman 445 - No corporation shall be created by special laws, or its charter extended, changed or amended, except those for charitable, educational, penal or reformatory purposes, which are to be and remain under the patronage and control of the state, but the general assembly shall provide, by general laws, for the organization of all corporations hereafter to be created.
Halaman 507 - States nearest to the tiers of sections above specified, so much land in alternate sections or parts of sections, designated by odd numbers, as shall be equal to such lands as the United States have sold, reserved, or otherwise appropriated...
Halaman 39 - ... in every case, before the evidence is left to the jury, there is a preliminary question for the judge, not whether there Is literally no evidence, but whether there Is any upon which a jury can properly proceed to find a verdict for the party producing it, upon whom the onus of proof is imposed.
Halaman 632 - That all railway companies desiring to use said bridge shall have and be entitled to equal rights and privileges in the passage of the same, and in the use of the machinery and fixtures thereof, and of all the approaches thereto...