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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... plaintiff is a separate one ; for , as this court has often said : ' A defendant has no right to say that an action shall be several which the plaintiff seeks to make joint . A separate defense may defeat a joint recovery , but it ...
... plaintiff is a separate one ; for , as this court has often said : ' A defendant has no right to say that an action shall be several which the plaintiff seeks to make joint . A separate defense may defeat a joint recovery , but it ...
Σελίδα 32
... plaintiff's right of re- covery for loss peculiar to plaintiff's property and not what he suf- fers in common with the community . Eminent Domain - Damages - Changing Grade - Question for Jury . -In an action against a railroad company ...
... plaintiff's right of re- covery for loss peculiar to plaintiff's property and not what he suf- fers in common with the community . Eminent Domain - Damages - Changing Grade - Question for Jury . -In an action against a railroad company ...
Σελίδα 34
... Plaintiff testified that before the rais- ing of the grade his property was worth $ 1,300 , and since that crossing was raised it was worth one - third less . * * * Article 1 , § 17 , of our state Constitution as it is applicable to the ...
... Plaintiff testified that before the rais- ing of the grade his property was worth $ 1,300 , and since that crossing was raised it was worth one - third less . * * * Article 1 , § 17 , of our state Constitution as it is applicable to the ...
Σελίδα 35
... plaintiff's premises is obstructed elsewhere than in front of the plaintiff's property , as by a viaduct or bridge , or approach thereto , or by a railroad crossing a street in a cut or on an em- bankment , or otherwise , and the result ...
... plaintiff's premises is obstructed elsewhere than in front of the plaintiff's property , as by a viaduct or bridge , or approach thereto , or by a railroad crossing a street in a cut or on an em- bankment , or otherwise , and the result ...
Σελίδα 52
... plaintiff had to pay a higher rate for fire insurance because of the proximity of the en- gines , since the defendant would only be liable for setting fire to plaintiff's house in case of negligence , and , in the absence of negli ...
... plaintiff had to pay a higher rate for fire insurance because of the proximity of the en- gines , since the defendant would only be liable for setting fire to plaintiff's house in case of negligence , and , in the absence of negli ...
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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...