 | David Graham (Jr.) - 1834 - 712 lapas
...plaintiff £300, and motion to set it aside as excessive. Lord Chief Justice Wilmot denying the rule — " The law has not laid down what shall be the measure...vast variety of causes, facts, and circumstances. Torts or injuries which may be done by one man to another are infinite. In cases of criminal conversation,... | |
 | David Graham (Jr.) - 1855 - 650 lapas
...partiality or corruption, we cannot, consistently with the precedents, interfere with the verdict." Again, " The law has not laid down what shall be the measure...depending upon a vast variety of causes, facts and [*429] circumstances, as the *state, degree, quality, trade or profession of the party injured, as... | |
 | William Tidd - 1856 - 976 lapas
...and uncertain, depending upon a great variety of causes, facts and circumstances, such as the estate, degree, quality, trade, or profession of the party injured, as well as of the person by whom the injury was done, &c.(a) In an action on the case for a malicious prosecution, the... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1866 - 810 lapas
...331 ; Woodruff v. Richardson, 20 Conn. 238. In Hucklc r. Money, 2 Wilson, 206, Pratt, CJ, said : " The law has not laid down what shall be the measure of damages in actions of tort ; the measure is YOgue and uncertain, depending upon a vast yariety of causes, facts, and circumstances; torts or injuries... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - 1873 - 852 lapas
...exercised by them according to their sound discretion, duly weighing all the circumstances, and considering the state, degree, quality, trade, or profession of the party injured, as of him who did the injury. The jury may also consider the sex of the plaintiff, the peril in which... | |
 | 1913 - 1038 lapas
...Southwick, 9 Johns. (NY) 45, 6 Am. Dec. 253. On the subject of damages in actions of torts, he says: "The law has not laid down what shall be the measure of damages in actions of tort. pending upon a vast variety of causes, facts, and circumstances, as the state, degree, quality, trade,... | |
 | 1914 - 1282 lapas
...enter into the nature of the cause, the evidence, facts, and circumstances of the case, as for a jury ; the law has not laid down what shall be the measure of damages in action of tort; the measure Is vague and uncertain, depending upon a vast variety of causes, facts,... | |
 | 1889 - 988 lapas
...damages for actual injury inflicted. Hamilton v. Railroad Co., 53 NY 28; Sedg. Dam. (6th Ed.) 118. The law has not laid down what shall be the measure of damages on each cases of tort. And it cannot be said that the verdict herein was glaringly extreme and improper... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1891 - 698 lapas
...damages in actions for personal torts and injuries. * * * The measure of damages in actions of tort is vague and uncertain, depending upon a vast variety of causes, facts and circumstances in the state, grade, quality, trade or profession of the party injured as well asof the party who did... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1893 - 734 lapas
...proved, damages may be founded upon it. (p) Thus, if prosecution», &c , the state, degree, qual ity, trade, or profession of the party injured, as well as of the person who did the injury, must be, and generally are, considered by the jury in giving damages : the... | |
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... the law has not laid down what shall be the measure of damages in actions of tort; the measure is vague and uncertain, depending upon a vast variety of causes, facts and circumstances... 
