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" ... and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff. "
Reports of Cases Decided by the English Courts: With Notes and References to ... - Page 133
by Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1872
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The Law Reports: Court of Common Pleas, Volume 3

Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Scott, Henry Bompas, Edmund Lumley - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 746 pages
...the water and was injured. The jury found that there was negligence on the part of the defendants, and that there was no contributory negligence on the part of the plaintiff, and a verdict was entered for the plaintiff for 651., with leave to move to enter it for...
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A Treatise on the Law of Negligence

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...
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The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the ...

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...
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A Summary of the Law of Torts, Or, Wrongs Independent of Contract

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...
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A Treatise Upon the Law of Principal and Agent in Contract and Tort

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...
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Pacific Coast Law Journal: Containing All the Decisions of the ..., Volume 6

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...
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The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad ...

Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1883 - 796 pages
...evidence justified the jury in finding that there ^as 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. There remains, therefore, but one question for this court to determine,...
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Carriers' Law: Relating to Goods and Passenger Traffic on Railways, Canals ...

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...
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The Northeastern Reporter, Volume 14

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,...
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A Treatise on the Law of Railroads, Volume 2

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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