 When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence.  Albany Law Journal - Sayfa 881874Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1833 - 812 sayfa
...court of the United States, in their opinion in the case of Railroad Co. v. Derby, 14 How. 468, say : " When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful,...but dangerous, agency of steam, public policy and public safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence." In that case... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1853 - 672 sayfa
...difference, (if it be capable of definition,) as the verdict has found this to be a case of gross negligence. When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful...for such transportation be pecuniary or otherwise, fhe personal safety of the passengers should not be left to the sport of chance or the negligence of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1855 - 702 sayfa
...Hbw. R. 486, which was a case of gratuitous carriage of a passenger on a railroad, this court said : " When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful...steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. And whether the consideration for such... | |
 | John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace - 1855 - 1006 sayfa
...Derby, 14 Howard, 486, where the court declared, that when "carriers undertake to convey persons by the dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the yrea/est possible care and diligence : and that any negligence in such cases may well deserve the epithet... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1856 - 728 sayfa
...and in all the subsidiary arrangements necessary to the safety of the passengers.2 And when _carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous...agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they_be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. The personal safety of the passengers should... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - 1857 - 502 sayfa
...persons by the powerful and dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence....the personal safety of the passengers should not be Ifeft to the sport of chance or the negligence of careless agents. Any negligence, in such cases, may... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1857 - 936 sayfa
...capable of definition,) as the verdict has found this to lie a case of gross negligence. When carrier* undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, publie policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and' diligence. And... | |
 | Alexander Ralston Tiffany - 1859 - 656 sayfa
...carriers of passengers on railroads. — 4 Cush., 400 ; 1 Am.RRC, 591. In the former case the court said: "When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public feeling and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence, and whether... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1860 - 620 sayfa
...Per CURTIS, J., in McGrath agt. The Hudson River Railroad Co. delivering the opinion of the court : " When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful...steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. And whether the consideration bo pecuniary... | |
 | Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - 1861 - 722 sayfa
...any negligence has been held to be gross. Per Curtis, J. in delivering the opinion of the court: " When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful...steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence." "And whether the consideration be pecun--... | |
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