| Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1833 - 812 lapas
...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... | |
| 1853 - 796 lapas
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| United States. Supreme Court - 1853 - 672 lapas
...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...held to the greatest possible care and diligence. And whether the consideration for such transportation be pecuniary or otherwise, fhe personal safety... | |
| Conway Robinson - 1855 - 884 lapas
...rightly managed. In the supreme court of the United States, Mr. Justice Grier has said that " where carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful...held to the greatest possible care and diligence; and whether the consideration for such transportation be pecuniary or otherwise, the personal safety... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1855 - 702 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
...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... | |
| Theophilus Parsons - 1857 - 936 lapas
...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... | |
| 1858 - 856 lapas
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| Alexander Ralston Tiffany - 1859 - 656 lapas
...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... | |
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