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 E. Thompson, 1882 Covers cases decided [1879?]-1895. |
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... jury found that the wife was chargeable with gross negligence in crossing the railway company's bridge , and unless this or the other similar findings of the jury can be imputed to erroneous rulings of the court , no new trial ought to ...
... jury found that the wife was chargeable with gross negligence in crossing the railway company's bridge , and unless this or the other similar findings of the jury can be imputed to erroneous rulings of the court , no new trial ought to ...
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... jury to believe that they could only find for defendants should they think that the engineer " could not and did not discover plaintiff on the track in time to stop , without running over him . " Read as a whole , especially in ...
... jury to believe that they could only find for defendants should they think that the engineer " could not and did not discover plaintiff on the track in time to stop , without running over him . " Read as a whole , especially in ...
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... jury trials has come to be a great evil , and one thing which contributes thereto is the needlessly long drawn out examination of jurors . The question was not proper with the view stated , nor for any purpose , and a court would fail ...
... jury trials has come to be a great evil , and one thing which contributes thereto is the needlessly long drawn out examination of jurors . The question was not proper with the view stated , nor for any purpose , and a court would fail ...
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... jury ; and if there is any evidence from which a jury might find in favor of the plaintiff , the case should not be withdrawn from their consideration . The testimony here as to the defendant's negligence is not very strong , and the ...
... jury ; and if there is any evidence from which a jury might find in favor of the plaintiff , the case should not be withdrawn from their consideration . The testimony here as to the defendant's negligence is not very strong , and the ...
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... jury to return a verdict for the defendant . We do not agree that the case was so plain on either ground as to justify the court in taking it from the jury . It may be that if we were at liberty to pass upon the facts we should reach ...
... jury to return a verdict for the defendant . We do not agree that the case was so plain on either ground as to justify the court in taking it from the jury . It may be that if we were at liberty to pass upon the facts we should reach ...
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294 페이지 - All that is perfectly correct: for, although the ass may have been wrongfully there, still the defendant was bound to go along the road at such a pace as would be likely to prevent mischief. Were this not so, a man might justify the driving over goods left on a public highway, or even over a man lying asleep there, or the purposely running against a carriage going on the wrong side of the road.
499 페이지 - ... by any meeting of the directors or of a committee of directors or by any person acting as a director shall notwithstanding that it be afterwards discovered that there was some defect in the appointment of any such...
318 페이지 - The cause was tried to a jury, and resulted in a verdict and judgment for plaintiff for $452.44.
484 페이지 - ... or the transgression of a positive law of this country, there the Court says he has no right to be assisted. It is upon that ground the Court goes; not for the sake of the defendant, but because they will not lend their aid to such a plaintiff. So if the plaintiff and defendant were to change sides, and the defendant was to bring his action against the plaintiff, the latter would then have the advantage of it; for where both are equally in fault, potior est conditio dcfendentis.
483 페이지 - The objection that a contract is immoral or illegal as between plaintiff and defendant sounds at all times very ill in the mouth of the defendant. It is not for his sake, however, that the objection is ever allowed : but it is founded in general principles of policy, which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice, as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may so say. The principle of public policy is this : Ex dolo malo non oritur actio.
470 페이지 - ... 1 of the Constitution of the United States, which provides that no State shall pass any law impairing the obligation of a contract, and also violated that clause of the fourteenth amendment of that instrument, which provides that no State shall deprive any person of property without due process of law.
562 페이지 - The Company shall not be entitled to any Mines of Coal, Ironstone, Slate, or other Minerals under any Land purchased by them, except only such Parts thereof as shall be necessary to be dug or carried away or used in the Construction of the Works...
490 페이지 - By reason of the negligence of any person in the service of the employer who has the charge or control of any signal, points, locomotive engine, or train upon a railway...
599 페이지 - Every railroad company shall have the right with its road to intersect, connect with, or cross, any other railroad; and shall receive and transport each the other's passengers, tonnage, and cars, loaded or empty, without delay or discrimination.
312 페이지 - Whatever subjects of this power are in their nature national, or admit only of one uniform system, or plan of regulation, may justly be said to be of such a nature as to require exclusive legislation by Congress.