| Francis Wharton - Negligence - 1874 - 960 pages
...* Richardson v. NERR 7 CP 75. The point was thus argued by Willes, J. : . . . . " The county court judge decided that the defendants were responsible...plaintiffs. We are clearly of a different opinion. The county court judge, in deciding as he did, appears to have proceeded upon a supposition that the case... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 978 pages
...evidence from which a jnry may reasonably find that there was negligence on the part of the defendants, and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff. In the present case the name of the station \vaa called out as the train was coming iuto... | |
| Sir Arthur Underhill - Torts - 1878 - 368 pages
...the carriage, was crushed. It was held, that the jury were justified in finding that the guard was guilty of negligence, and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff. (2) Where, however, the plaintiff, on entering a railway carriage, left his hand on the... | |
| William Evans - Agency (Law) - 1879 - 802 pages
...Quain, the jury found that there v,as negligence on the part of the driver of the defendants' engine, and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the deceased. Leave was reserved to the defendants to move to enter the verdict for them, on the ground... | |
| Law - 1881 - 1112 pages
...evidence justified the jury in finding that there was negligence on the part of the railroad employees, and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff or his infant son. the measure of damages in cases of this character. The action is brought... | |
| Edmund B. Ivatts - Carriers - 1883 - 1168 pages
...want of reasonable care in the Company's servants in the unloading of the second truck at Farnham, and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the groom. Verdict against the Company. The Company appealed, when Justice Keating said — " At the time... | |
| Law - 1888 - 972 pages
...wrong was not an intentional or malicious one, for it is alleged that it was heedless and negligent, and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff. The court below construed the complaint as we construe it, and so, also, did the appellant,... | |
| Horace Gay Wood - Railroad law - 1885 - 804 pages
...had not given an " alarm " whistle. It was held that the railway company's servants were ill fault, and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the miner, and that the company was liable in damages.1 The omission to erect a signboard at a crossing... | |
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