The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases, Affecting Railroads of Every Kind, Decided by the Courts of Appellate Jurisdiction in the United States, England, and Canada [1894-1913].E. Thompson Company, 1910 - Railroad law |
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Common terms and phrases
accident affirmed agent alight alleged appellant appellant's appellee approaching authorities bill of lading carrier charge Chicago Chicago City Railway circumstances collision common carrier complaint conductor contract contributory negligence County damages danger deceased defendant defendant's demurrer depot derailment Douglasville duty employees engine error evidence exercise fact failure Fayette county feet fellow servants fendant freight gence grade crossing guilty held highway horse last foot-note liable Louisville & N. R. Michigan Central Railroad motion motorman N. R. Co operation ordinary Oregon Short Line pany parties pass passenger train person plaintiff in error proximate cause question rail railroad company railroad crossing Railway Company rate of speed reason recover refused road rule running safety second foot-note shipper signals station statute stop street car struck sufficient Supreme Court sustained testified testimony ticket tion Traction traveler trial verdict wagon whistle witnesses
Popular passages
Page 577 - ... whose railroad is or shall be hereafter intersected by any new railroad, shall unite with the owners of such new railroad in forming such intersections and connections, and grant the facilities aforesaid...
Page 507 - ... whether, even although the order be in form within the delegated power, nevertheless it must be treated as not embraced therein, because...
Page 97 - The jury are further instructed that negligence is the omission to. do something which a reasonable man, guided by those ordinary considerations which ordinarily regulate human affairs, would do, or the doing of something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 511 - Act, the commission is hereby authorized and empowered to determine and prescribe what will be the just and reasonable individual or joint rate or rates, charge or charges, to be thereafter observed in such case as the maximum to be charged...
Page 478 - ... valuation of the property carried, with the rate of freight based on the condition that the carrier assumes liability only to the extent of the agreed valuation, even in case of loss or damage by the negligence of the carrier, the contract will be upheld as a proper and lawful mode of securing a due proportion between the amount for which the carrier may be responsible and the freight he receives, and of protecting himself against extravagant and fanciful valuations.
Page 635 - And all and every person or persons aggrieved by the violation of any of the provisions of this act may have and maintain an action at law against the person or persons...
Page 762 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 757 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Page 511 - ... unless the same shall be suspended or modified or set aside by the Commission, or be suspended or set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Page 617 - The highway may be a convenient place for the owner of carriages to keep them in, but the law, looking to the convenience of the greater number, prohibits any such use of the public streets.