 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 598 pages
...terror unaccompanied by any actual physical injury, but occasioning a nervous or mental shock, can not under such circumstances, their Lordships think, be...held that they can, it appears to their Lordships it would be extendOpinion of the Court. ing the liability for negligence much beyond what that liability... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 1166 pages
...fright. In its turn, so affects such structures as to cause injury to health, such injury cannot be 'a consequence which, In the ordinary course of things, would flow from the' negligence, unless such injury 'accompany such negligence in point of time.' " In Purcell v. St Paul City Ry. Co.,... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick, Arthur George Sedgwick - Damages - 1891 - 764 pages
...13 App. Cas. 222. C) Byrne v. Great Southern & W. Ry. Co., in the Court of Appeal. injury cannot be a consequence which, in the ordinary course of things, would flow from the negligence, unless such injury accompany such negligence in point of time." The principle adopted in this case... | |
 | Albert Parsons - Liability for railroad accidents - 1893 - 244 pages
...physical injury, but occasioning council a nervous or mental shock, cannot, under such circumstances, be considered a consequence which, in the ordinary...can, it appears to their lordships that it would be . n , ,,.,.. , . . the Privy extending the liability for negligence much beyond what that liability... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Damages - 1893 - 1132 pages
...to be that damages arising from mere sudden terror, unaccompanied by actual physical injury, cannot be considered a consequence which, in the ordinary course of things, would flow from such negligence.1 The court observed that it was remarkable that no precedent was cited of a similar... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1228 pages
...from mere sudden terror, unaccompanied by any actual physical Injury, but occasioning a nervous mental shock, cannot, under such circumstances, their lordships...appears to their lordships that It would be extending tlie liability for negligence much beyond what that liability has hitherto been held to be. Not only... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1232 pages
...from mere sudden terror, unaccompanied by any actual physical injury, but occasioning a nervous mental shock, cannot, under such circumstances, their lordships...gatekeeper. If it were held that they can, it appears to thc'ir lordships that it would be extending the liability for negligence much beyond what that liability... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton - 1894 - 800 pages
...mere sudden terror unaccompanied by any actual physical injury, but occasioning a nervous or mental shock, cannot under such circumstances, their lordships think, be considered a consequence which, iu the ordinary course of things woidd flow from the negligence of the gate-keeper." To the same effect... | |
 | Allan McLane Hamilton - Medical jurisprudence - 1894 - 754 pages
...shock, cannot imder such circumstances, their lordships think, be considered a consequence which in tho ordinary course of things would flow from the negligence of the gate-keeper." To the same effect are String vs. Railicai/ Co., 147 Pa. St., 40; City of Ntilina vs. Trosper, 27 Kan.... | |
 | Thomas Beven - Negligence - 1895 - 1072 pages
...fright in its turn so affects such structures as to cause injury to health ; such injury cannot be a consequence which in the ordinary course of things would flow from the negligence, unless such injury ' accompany such negligence in point of time.' " The chief objection in principle... | |
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Damages arising from mere sudden terror, unaccompanied by any actual physical injury, but occasioning a nervous or mental shock, cannot, under such circumstances, their lordships think, be considered a consequence which, in the ordinary course of things,... 
