I put the case on this ground, that when a child of such tender and imbecile age is brought to a railway station, or to any conveyance for the purpose of being conveyed, and is wholly unable to take care of itself, the contract of conveyance is on the... The Weekly Reporter - Page 3181887Full view - About this book
| Law - 1899 - 710 pages
...on this ground, that when a child of such tender and imbecile age is brought to a railway station, or to any conveyance for the purpose of being conveyed,...surrounding circumstances, a child might get into serious danger from a state of things which would produce no disastrous consequences to an adult capable... | |
| Law - 1875 - 462 pages
...Exchequer Chamber, to be that " when a child of tender and imbecile age is brought to a railway station or to any conveyance for the purpose of being conveyed,...child is to be conveyed subject to due and proper care ou the part of the person having it in charge." It must not be forgotten that this was a case of contract,... | |
| Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 864 pages
...Exchequer Chamber, to be that " when a child of tender and imbecile age is brought to a railway station or to any conveyance for the purpose of being conveyed,...wholly unable to take care of itself, the contract of conveyauc« is on the implied condition that the child is to be conveyed subject to due and proper... | |
| John Davison Lawson - Bailments - 1895 - 780 pages
...person of tender years, unable to take care of himself, presents himself for passage on a vehicle, the contract of conveyance is on the implied condition...care on the part of the person having it in charge. And Pollock, CB, thought that there was no difference between a person of tender years under the care... | |
| Edwin Ames Jaggard - Torts - 1895 - 702 pages
...child of five years was taken to a railroad station by its grandmother. The ground of decision was that "the contract of conveyance is on the implied condition...be conveyed subject to due and proper care on the [>art of the person having it in charge." The needful foundation of liability is wanting in this case,... | |
| Thomas Beven - Negligence - 1895 - 1072 pages
...company, in the words of Cockburn, CJ, in the Exchequer Chamber, is due to the fact that there is an "implied condition that the child is to be conveyed,...proper care on the part of the person having it in charge."2 Eliminating, then^this contractual condition, there seems no reason why the child should... | |
| William Benjamin Hale - Bailments - 1896 - 758 pages
...Minn. 296. 53 NW 1128, When a child of such tender and Imbecile age Is brought to a railway station or to any conveyance, for the purpose of being conveyed,...condition that the child is to be conveyed subject to dne and proper care on the part of the person having It In charge. Such care not being used, where... | |
| William Benjamin Hale - Torts - 1896 - 700 pages
...child of five years was taken to a railroad station hy its grandmother. The ground of decision was that "the contract of conveyance is on the implied condition...care on the part of the person having it in charge?." The needful foundation of liability is wanting in this case, viz. that the defendant's negligence,... | |
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