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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... person causing the damage . " If we are right in this case , the plaintiff is not entitled to recover . " Verdict and judgment for defendant . The plaintiff's took this writ , assigning for error , inter alia , the answers to points ...
... person causing the damage . " If we are right in this case , the plaintiff is not entitled to recover . " Verdict and judgment for defendant . The plaintiff's took this writ , assigning for error , inter alia , the answers to points ...
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... person injured is upon or about the train by the permission of the employees of the company , is a perplexing one . The great preponderance of authority is to the effect that if the person be on the train by invitation of the company ...
... person injured is upon or about the train by the permission of the employees of the company , is a perplexing one . The great preponderance of authority is to the effect that if the person be on the train by invitation of the company ...
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... person fills the meas- ure secured to him in the Declaration of Rights . As well might it be attempted to defeat the whole remedy as a part ; and with equal propriety could it be declared that in all actions against persons using a ...
... person fills the meas- ure secured to him in the Declaration of Rights . As well might it be attempted to defeat the whole remedy as a part ; and with equal propriety could it be declared that in all actions against persons using a ...
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... person injured has been guilty of negligence but that negligence had no causal connection with the injury or at least so remote a connection that in law it cannot be deemed so at all , then the person injured is entitled to recover ...
... person injured has been guilty of negligence but that negligence had no causal connection with the injury or at least so remote a connection that in law it cannot be deemed so at all , then the person injured is entitled to recover ...
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... person for his death , the damages recoverable are only such as are pecu- niary and actual , or fixed in amount by the statute ; but in actions brought by the parties injured themselves , mental pain and anguish are also proper elements ...
... person for his death , the damages recoverable are only such as are pecu- niary and actual , or fixed in amount by the statute ; but in actions brought by the parties injured themselves , mental pain and anguish are also proper elements ...
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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...