| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 760 pages
...rule of law applicable to actions in which the defence is contributory negligence may be thus stated : Although the defendant's negligence may have been...in recent years, (having been first enunciated in Daisies v. Mann, 10 M. & W. 546,) that the contributory negligence of the party injured will not defeat... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 834 pages
...and affirmed by the court. The established doctrine now is, that although the defendant's misconduct may have been the primary cause of the injury complained of, yet the plaintiff can not recover in an action of this kind, if the proximate and immediate cause of the... | |
| Charles Andrew Ray - Carriers - 1893 - 914 pages
...rule of law applicable to actions in which the defense is contributory negligence may be thus stated : although the defendant's negligence may have been...be traced to the want of ordinary care and caution, iii the person injured; subject to this qualification, which has grown up in recent years,* that the... | |
| William Francis Bailey - Employers' liability - 1894 - 674 pages
...rule of law applicable to actions in which the defense is contributory negligence may be thus stated: Although the defendant's negligence may have been...qualification, which has grown 'up in recent years: that the contributing negligence of the party injured will not defeat the action if it be shown that... | |
| Edwin Ames Jaggard - Torts - 1895 - 702 pages
...page 558, 130 TI. S., and page 053, 11 Sup. Ct., reviewing cases. Et vide 3 Harv. Law Rev. 2(>3. в'о if the proximate and immediate cause of the injury...traced to the want of ordinary care and caution in the persons injured, an action for the injury cannot be maintained unless it further appears that the defendant... | |
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