 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1172 pages
...Negligence Is the want of care required by the circumstances. It may "lie in omission or commission, In the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person...done under the circumstances of the situation, or In doing what such a person under the existing circumstances would not have done." Railroad Co. v.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1156 pages
...a person not a passenger. Breinig's Case, 25 Aid. 378. If this be so, the duty of the conductor was to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily...have done under the circumstances of the situation. Coughlan's Case, 24 Md. 84. Riuggold was a sane man, in full possession of his faculties, and accustomed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1160 pages
...negligence caused the Injury. Negligence is the failure to do what a person of ordinary prudence would have done under the circumstances of the situation, or doing what such a person, under such circumstances, would not have 'one. Apart from the situation and surrounding circumstances, no... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1134 pages
...rather than substance. The statement to the Jury was that neglect to perform a legal duty is "tin' failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the same circumstances." Again: "The defendant corporation was bound to see to it, as a reasonable and... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1076 pages
...Negligent Firn. 1. WHAT AMOUNTS то NEOLIOES-CE. Negligence is a failure to do what a reasonably prudput person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or doing what such person under existing circumstances would not have done. Reasonable or proper care must have reference... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1897 - 1148 pages
...to do what a reasonable and prudent person would do under the circumstances of the situation, or the doing what such a person under the existing circumstances would not have done." Mr. Bigelow, in his book on Í Torts (page 201), says: "It is conceded by j all the authorities that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1256 pages
...A charge in an action against a carrier for negligent injuries to live stock defined negligence as "the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person...under the existing circumstances would not have done." Held, that the use of "reasonable and prudent person," instead of "reasonably prudent person," is harmless... | |
 | Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield - Negligence - 1888 - 720 pages
...Taff Vale R. Co., 5 Hurlst. & N. 679). Compare Philadelphia, &c. R. Co. v. Stinger, 78 Penn. St. 225). "Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable...under the existing circumstances would not have done " {Railroad Co. v. Jones, 95 US 442, Swayne, J.). " Negligence is the failure to observe for the protection... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 680 pages
...>negligence,' when used in these instructions, is meant either the failure to do what a reasonable person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or doing what such person would not have done under the existing circumstances." This. instruction was properly refused.... | |
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Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or doing what such a person under the existing circumstances would not have done. 
