The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases, Affecting Railroads of Every Kind, Decided by the Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction in the United States, England, and Canada [1894-1913].E. Thompson Company, 1912 |
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Σελίδα 20
... defendant company , the court properly allowed the jury to determine the proper compensation for the use of the bridges . Appeal from Court of Common Pleas , Allegheny County . Action by Beaver County against the Beaver Valley Traction ...
... defendant company , the court properly allowed the jury to determine the proper compensation for the use of the bridges . Appeal from Court of Common Pleas , Allegheny County . Action by Beaver County against the Beaver Valley Traction ...
Σελίδα 21
... defendant and the old bridge companies is not in this case . These con- tracts were ruled out on the objection of the defendant . It af- firmatively appears that in 1905 both of the parties to the pres- ent controversy treated them as ...
... defendant and the old bridge companies is not in this case . These con- tracts were ruled out on the objection of the defendant . It af- firmatively appears that in 1905 both of the parties to the pres- ent controversy treated them as ...
Σελίδα 52
... defendant's right of way , without connecting their acts with defendant , though error , was harmless , where no damages were claimed therefor , and , under the charge , none could have been al- lowed , especially as any damage from ...
... defendant's right of way , without connecting their acts with defendant , though error , was harmless , where no damages were claimed therefor , and , under the charge , none could have been al- lowed , especially as any damage from ...
Σελίδα 70
... defendant , the defense may be established by plaintiff's evidence . Appeal and Error - Instructions - Prejudice . - Defendant was not prejudiced by an instruction that contributory negligence is a mat- ter of defense , the burden of ...
... defendant , the defense may be established by plaintiff's evidence . Appeal and Error - Instructions - Prejudice . - Defendant was not prejudiced by an instruction that contributory negligence is a mat- ter of defense , the burden of ...
Σελίδα 72
... defendant that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence . They contend that under the most favorable deductions to be drawn from the evidence that the plaintiff rode back and forth from his work as a mere li- censee , without ...
... defendant that the verdict is not sustained by the evidence . They contend that under the most favorable deductions to be drawn from the evidence that the plaintiff rode back and forth from his work as a mere li- censee , without ...
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Σελίδα 589 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Σελίδα 493 - The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either.
Σελίδα 493 - Laws permitting, and even requiring, their separation in places where they are liable to be brought into contact do not necessarily imply the inferiority of either race to the other, and have been generally, if not universally, recognized as within the competency of the state legislatures in the exercise of their police power.
Σελίδα 264 - This insurance is granted in consideration of the application therefor, a copy of which is hereto attached and made a part of this contract...
Σελίδα 180 - Any other suit of a civil nature, at law or in equity, of which the circuit courts of the United States are given jurisdiction by the preceding section, and which are now pending, or which may hereafter be brought, in any state court, may be removed into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district by the defendant or defendants therein, being non-residents of that state.
Σελίδα 467 - Every one who offers to the public to carry persons, property, or messages, excepting only telegraphic messages, is a common carrier of whatever he thus offers to carry.
Σελίδα 495 - Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal Opinion of the Court. hand, so as practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, the denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition of the Constitution.
Σελίδα 245 - That any employee of any such common carrier who may be injured by any locomotive, car, or train In use contrary to the provision of this act shall not be deemed thereby to have assumed the risk thereby occasioned, although continuing In the employment of such carrier after the unlawful use of such locomotive, car. or train had been brought to his knowledge.
Σελίδα 559 - And for the consideration before mentioned, said party of the second part further agrees, that as a condition precedent to his right to recover any damages for any loss or injury to said stock...
Σελίδα 721 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...