Negligence of Imposed Duties, Carriers of Passengers |
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... jury were of opinion that there was some degree of actual fault or negligence on the part of the proprietors of the coach . The court refused these instructions and told the jury the stage coach owners were bound to provide a coach not ...
... jury were of opinion that there was some degree of actual fault or negligence on the part of the proprietors of the coach . The court refused these instructions and told the jury the stage coach owners were bound to provide a coach not ...
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... jury , although the car was not running at a rate of speed exceeding that allowed by ordinance . ' A mistake of the driver in supposing that a passenger was drunk , when the latter had ridden a considerable distance without misbehavior ...
... jury , although the car was not running at a rate of speed exceeding that allowed by ordinance . ' A mistake of the driver in supposing that a passenger was drunk , when the latter had ridden a considerable distance without misbehavior ...
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... jury is the proper tribunal to find whether the defendant was thereby guilty of negligence . If the ice on the step caused the plaintiff to fall or contributed thereto , it was proper for the jury to consider whether under all the ...
... jury is the proper tribunal to find whether the defendant was thereby guilty of negligence . If the ice on the step caused the plaintiff to fall or contributed thereto , it was proper for the jury to consider whether under all the ...
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... jury . It is not negligence per se for a person to get on or off a street car while it is in motion , but the question is ordinarily one of fact for the jury . That a street car is propelled by electricity does not make it negligent as ...
... jury . It is not negligence per se for a person to get on or off a street car while it is in motion , but the question is ordinarily one of fact for the jury . That a street car is propelled by electricity does not make it negligent as ...
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... jury , the plaintiff stood upon the crossing at the usual place where passengers were taken up ; one car passed rapidly without slackening its speed ; seeing the next approaching at a rapid rate he gave notice to the person in charge ...
... jury , the plaintiff stood upon the crossing at the usual place where passengers were taken up ; one car passed rapidly without slackening its speed ; seeing the next approaching at a rapid rate he gave notice to the person in charge ...
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Page 476 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 621 - 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, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been...
Page 294 - ... the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel and her freight then pending.
Page 660 - ... in every such action 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...
Page 712 - No right is held more sacred, or is more carefully guarded, by the common law, than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person, free from all restraint or interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. As well said by Judge Cooley: "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone.
Page 601 - States may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed...
Page 440 - Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law as the legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the constitution, may think necessary and expedient.
Page 466 - When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he must submit to the control.
Page 621 - That every such Action shall be for the Benefit of the Wife, Husband, Parent, and Child of the Person whose Death shall have been so caused...
Page 666 - Negligence is the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.