| Law - 1883 - 818 pages
...his passengers, while being couveyea, from violence committed by strangers find co-passengers, and he undertakes absolutely to protect them against the misconduct of its own servants engaged in executing the contract." From an examination of his opinion it is obvious that the dictum... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1887 - 712 pages
...same court in Stewart v. Brooklyn cC- Crosstown Railroad, 90 NY 588, 591, a common earner is bound, as far as practicable, to protect its passengers, while...and undertakes absolutely to protect them against Opiniou of the Court. the misconduct of its own servants engaged in executing the contract. What will... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1887 - 714 pages
...588, 591, a common carrier is bound; as far as practicable, to protect its passengers, while be'.v,g conveyed, from violence committed by strangers and...and undertakes absolutely to protect them against Opinion of the Court. the misconduct of its own servants engaged in executing the contract. What will... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1927 - 1232 pages
...announced the general rule as follows : "A common carrier is bound, so far as practicable, to protect his passengers, while being conveyed, from violence committed by strangers and copassengers, and he undertakes absolutely to protect them against the misconduct of its own servants engaged in executing... | |
| Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 1034 pages
...the carrier owes to the passenger. A common carrier is bound, so far as practicable, to protect his passengers, while being conveyed, from violence committed by strangers and co-passengers, and he undertakes absolutely to protect them against the misconduct of its own servants engaged in executing... | |
| Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - Railroad law - 1891 - 774 pages
...carrier owes to the passenger. * * * A common carrier is bound, so far as practicable, to protect his passengers, while being conveyed, from violence committed by strangers and copassengers: and he undertakes, absolutely, to protect them against the misconduct of its own servants engaged in executing... | |
| Charles Andrew Ray - Carriers - 1893 - 914 pages
...avoided by the utmost degree of care and skill exercised by the employes, the carrier is liable.1 It undertakes absolutely to protect them against the misconduct of its own servants engaged in executing the contract." Railroad companies are responsible for any conduct of their agents... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 862 pages
...immodest and libidinous approach." A common carrier is bound, so far as practicable, to protect his passengers, while being conveyed, from violence committed by strangers and co-passengers, and he undertakes absolutely to protect them against the misconduct of its own servants engaged in executing... | |
| John Milton Gardner, Walter James Eagle - Employers' liability - 1899 - 910 pages
...Railroad Co., 90 NY 588-591, that a common carrier is bound, as far as practicable, to protect his passengers, while being conveyed, from violence committed...absolutely to protect them against the misconduct of his own servants engaged in executing the contract. The expressions above quoted, used in the cases,... | |
| Law - 1900 - 304 pages
...and safely carry its passengers. "A common carrier is bound, as far as practicable, to protect his passengers, while being conveyed, from violence committed...absolutely to protect them against the misconduct of his own servants engaged in executing the contract." The English courts apply the "respondiat superior"... | |
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