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 Edward Thompson Company, 1883 Covers cases decided [1879?]-1895. |
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... defendant's freight trains to carry passengers was admissible . Where the plaintiff had been received by the defendant as a passenger on its freight train , the same degree of care was due to him that defendant owed to passengers on its ...
... defendant's freight trains to carry passengers was admissible . Where the plaintiff had been received by the defendant as a passenger on its freight train , the same degree of care was due to him that defendant owed to passengers on its ...
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... defendant's negligence , and the case is before us on defendant's appeal from a judgment obtained by plaintiff on the trial , and we are asked to reverse the judgment because of alleged error in the circuit court in refusing to give an ...
... defendant's negligence , and the case is before us on defendant's appeal from a judgment obtained by plaintiff on the trial , and we are asked to reverse the judgment because of alleged error in the circuit court in refusing to give an ...
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... defendant's inducement might be imputed to the plaintiff as negligence sufficient to prevent a recovery , such ... defendant's inducement , or in obeying defendant's orders and directions , he may have his action . " It is next insisted ...
... defendant's inducement might be imputed to the plaintiff as negligence sufficient to prevent a recovery , such ... defendant's inducement , or in obeying defendant's orders and directions , he may have his action . " It is next insisted ...
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... defendant's said train , and that it was dark when said train arrived at Paris ; and that defendant's agents and servants stopped said train so that the caboose stood upon a high embank- ment , the side of which was perpendicular ; and ...
... defendant's said train , and that it was dark when said train arrived at Paris ; and that defendant's agents and servants stopped said train so that the caboose stood upon a high embank- ment , the side of which was perpendicular ; and ...
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... defendant company , claims that he was riding on the engine by the consent of the engineer to look after his cattle ... defendant's employees , a collision occurred and plaintiff was injured . By the regula- tions of the company , of ...
... defendant company , claims that he was riding on the engine by the consent of the engineer to look after his cattle ... defendant's employees , a collision occurred and plaintiff was injured . By the regula- tions of the company , of ...
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Page 71 - ... 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 578 - ... no greater burdens should be laid upon one than are laid upon others in the same calling and condition, and that in the administration of criminal justice no different or higher punishment should be imposed upon one than such as is prescribed to all for like offenses.
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Page 354 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 558 - Every person is entitled to a certain remedy in the laws for all injuries or wrongs which he may receive in his person, property or character; he ought to obtain justice freely, and without being obliged to purchase it, completely and without denial, promptly and without delay, conformably to the laws.
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Page 475 - The General Assembly shall provide by law for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation ; and shall prescribe such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, both real and personal, excepting such only for municipal, educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes, as may be specially exempted by law.
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Page 610 - ... trespass, yet where private papers are removed and carried away the secret nature of those goods will be an aggravation of the trespass, and demand more considerable damages in that respect. Where is the written law that gives any magistrate such a power? I can safely answer, there is none; and therefore it is too much for us, without such authority, to pronounce a practice legal which would be subversive of all the comforts of society.