 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1833 - 812 pages
...the United States, in their opinion in the case of Railroad Co. v. Derby, 14 How. 468, say : " When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful,...but dangerous, agency of steam, public policy and public safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence." In that case... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 672 pages
...it be capable of definition,) as the verdict has found this to be a case of gross negligence. When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful...for such transportation be pecuniary or otherwise, fhe personal safety of the passengers should not be left to the sport of chance or the negligence of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...486, which was a case of gratuitous carriage of a passenger on a railroad, this court said : " When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful...steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. And whether the consideration for such... | |
 | John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 1006 pages
...Derby, 14 Howard, 486, where the court declared, that when "carriers undertake to convey persons by the dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the yrea/est possible care and diligence : and that any negligence in such cases may well deserve the epithet... | |
 | Joseph Story - Bailments - 1856 - 728 pages
...and in all the subsidiary arrangements necessary to the safety of the passengers.2 And when _carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous...agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they_be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. The personal safety of the passengers should... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - Admiralty - 1857 - 502 pages
...persons by the powerful and dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence....the personal safety of the passengers should not be Ifeft to the sport of chance or the negligence of careless agents. Any negligence, in such cases, may... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Contracts - 1857 - 936 pages
...capable of definition,) as the verdict has found this to lie a case of gross negligence. When carrier* undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, publie policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and' diligence. And... | |
 | Alexander Ralston Tiffany - Justices of the peace - 1859 - 656 pages
...passengers on railroads. — 4 Cush., 400 ; 1 Am.RRC, 591. In the former case the court said: "When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public feeling and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence, and whether... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1860 - 620 pages
...CURTIS, J., in McGrath agt. The Hudson River Railroad Co. delivering the opinion of the court : " When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful...steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. And whether the consideration bo pecuniary... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1861 - 722 pages
...negligence has been held to be gross. Per Curtis, J. in delivering the opinion of the court: " When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful...steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence." "And whether the consideration be pecun--... | |
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When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. 
