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, 1905 |
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Σελίδα 18
... speed , and immediately starting up at a greater speed when the passenger is safely aboard , or has alighted . It would be impos- sible for a court to lay down the rule as to what particular rate of speed would be sufficient notice to a ...
... speed , and immediately starting up at a greater speed when the passenger is safely aboard , or has alighted . It would be impos- sible for a court to lay down the rule as to what particular rate of speed would be sufficient notice to a ...
Σελίδα 41
... Speed - Application . A municipal or- dinance limiting the speed of trains within the city to six miles per hour is for the protection of persons who are lawfully upon or cross- ing the track of the railroad , and a violation thereof by ...
... Speed - Application . A municipal or- dinance limiting the speed of trains within the city to six miles per hour is for the protection of persons who are lawfully upon or cross- ing the track of the railroad , and a violation thereof by ...
Σελίδα 42
... speed had reached its lowest , as appellee thought , he alighted from the train , and was injured . At the time he alighted the train was running at a speed of more than six miles an hour , and too fast to alight in safety ; but it was ...
... speed had reached its lowest , as appellee thought , he alighted from the train , and was injured . At the time he alighted the train was running at a speed of more than six miles an hour , and too fast to alight in safety ; but it was ...
Σελίδα 43
... speed was such that he could safely do so . " The effect of the foregoing charges was to inform the jury that the plaintiff had the right to choose the time and place of his departure from the train without the knowledge or concurrence ...
... speed was such that he could safely do so . " The effect of the foregoing charges was to inform the jury that the plaintiff had the right to choose the time and place of his departure from the train without the knowledge or concurrence ...
Σελίδα 44
... speed , and to determine when that speed had reached a safe point at which he would be permitted To leave the train . Having assumed to perform these acts him- self , instead of calling upon the conductor to do so , and having , by his ...
... speed , and to determine when that speed had reached a safe point at which he would be permitted To leave the train . Having assumed to perform these acts him- self , instead of calling upon the conductor to do so , and having , by his ...
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Σελίδα 547 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Σελίδα 634 - But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.
Σελίδα 686 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Σελίδα 5 - An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,' approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Σελίδα 346 - Exceptional circumstances will modify the most carefully guarded rule ; but, as a general thing, we should say that the compensation to the owner is to be estimated by reference to the uses for which the property is suitable, having regard to the existing business or wants of the community, or such as may be reasonably expected in the immediate future.
Σελίδα 105 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Σελίδα 633 - The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there was any intermediate cause disconnected from the primary fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury.
Σελίδα 623 - If each State was at liberty to regulate the conduct of carriers while within its jurisdiction, the confusion likely to follow could not but be productive of great inconvenience and unnecessary hardship. Each State could provide for its own passengers and regulate the transportation of its own freight, regardless of the interests of others.
Σελίδα 98 - ... the jury may give such damages as they shall deem a fair and just compensation with reference to the pecuniary injuries, resulting from such death, to the wife and next of kin of such deceased person...
Σελίδα 683 - ... sometimes by considering the cause and necessity of making the act, sometimes by comparing one part of the act with another, and sometimes by foreign circumstances.