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Webber v. Piper, 38 Hun, 353.............
Webster v. Railroad Co., 38 N. Y. 260....

Wedgewood v. Railway Co., 41 Wis. 478.

Page ..214, 225 436

.101, 165, 175

v. Railway Co., 44 Wis. 44.....

Weels v. Railway Co., 56 Iowa, 520, 9 N. W. 364....

.2, 101

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Welch v. Railroad Co., 63 Hun, 625, 17 N. Y. Supp. 342..........
Wellman v. Railway Co., 21 Or. 530, 28 Pac. 625...

200

148

Wells v. Coe, 9 Colo. 159, 11 Pac. 50.....

351

v. Railroad Co., 26 Barb. 641, 24 N. Y. 181..

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v. Railway Co., 56 Iowa, 520, 525, 9 N. W. 364....147, 162, 194 West v. Railroad Co., 63 Ill. 545.....

474

West Chester & P. R. Co. v. McElwee, 67 Pa. St. 311..

527

Western & A. R. Co. v. Adams, 55 Ga. 279.

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Wheeler v. Wason Manuf'g Co., 135 Mass. 294, 298....127, 129, 529
Whitmore v. Railway Co., 150 Mass. 477, 23 N. E. 220.............. 168
Whitney v. Clifford, 46 Wis. 138, 146, 49 N. W. 835..... .467, 468
Whittaker v. Delaware & H. Canal Co., 126 N. Y. 544, 27 N. E.
1042

88

Whitwam v. Railroad Co., 58 Wis. 408, 413, 17 N. W. 124..... 32, 105, 199, 204, 442, 458, 462 Wilds v. Hudson River R. Co., 24 N. Y. 430...

.495, 500

Willey v. Portsmouth, 35 N. H. 303...

515

Williams v. Railroad Co. (Va.) 15 S. E. 522.

91

v. Railway Co., 43 lowa, 396.

200

V. Railway Co., 109 Mo. 475, 18 S. W. 1098.....

65

Williamson v. Barrett, 13 How. 101....

446

Willis v. Railway Co., 62 Me. 488..

476

Willoughby v. Railway Co., 37 Iowa, 432........

6

Wilson v. Merry, L. R. 1 H. L. Sc. 326, 332.

.252, 373

v. Merry, 19 Law T. (N. S.) 33....

v. Railroad Co., 94 Mich. 20, 53 N. W. 797...

130

453

Wilson v. Railway Co., 18 Ind. 226.

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..279, 283

v. Railway Co., 37 Minn. 326, 33 N. W. 908.. ..40, 149, 171 v. Willimantic Linen Co., 50 Conn. 433, 464........15, 16, 287

Winship v.'Enfield, 42 N. H. 197.......

Winstanley v. Railway Co., 72 Wis. 375, 39 N. W. 856..

Wischam v. Richards, 136 Pa. St. 109, 20 Atl. 532..

Wittkowsky v. Wasson, 71 N. C. 451..

Wolsey v. Railway Co., 33 Ohio St. 227, 234......
Wonder v. Baltimore & O. R. Co., 32 Md. 414, 416, 418........

435

464

296

500

.72, 75, 89

15, 21, 130, 218, 304

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415

517

445

.520, 525

Wood v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 23 Ill. App. 370.....
Woodbridge v. Conner, 49 Me. 353....

Wooden v. Western New York & P. R. Co. (Super. Buff.) 18 N.

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Wormell v. Railway Co., 79 Me. 397, 404-406, 10 Atl. 49.

2, 3, 16, 161, 175, 200, 224, 246, 495, 508

Woutilla v. Duluth Lumber Co., 37 Minn. 153, 33 N. W. 551..127, 170
Wright v. Railway Co., 25 N. Y. 562, 565, 566.
Wynne v. Conklin, 86 Ga. 40, 12 S. E. 183.

.48, 50, 67, 280

118

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Yates v. McCullough Iron Co., 69 Md. 370, 16 Atl. 280....304, 305 Youll v. Railway Co., 66 Iowa, 346, 23 N. W. 736...

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Zintek v. Stimson Mill Co., 7 Wash. 178, 32 Pac. 997, 33 Pac. 1055

393

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precautions after, evidence of inadmissible to show defect, 525

et seq.

reasons for the rule, 526.

accident and fault combined, rule stated, 444.

as proof of negligence, the fact of the accident has no tendency

to prove negligence, 508.

reasons for the rule, 509.

an accident may reveal the cause, 509.

APPLIANCES,

master's duty in respect to, 2.

to provide such as are suitable and reasonably safe, 2, 14.

this duty is one of ordinary care only, 3.

he is not an insurer of their safety, 14, 15n, 23n.

not required to supply the best, 14, 16n, 19n, 24n, 44.

or safest, 14, 24n.

or newest, 14, 24.

but such as are ordinarily sufficient for the purpose, 15, 23n, 24,

25.

and can with reasonable care be used without danger, 16, 35.
except such as is reasonably incident to the business, 16.

not bound to apply new inventions, 19.

or supposed improvements, 19, 44n.

may use such as are less safe than others in general use, 20,
23, 24, 35n, 44n.

test of sufficiency is general use, 16n, 24.

some courts hold this test not conclusive, 17n, 26, 29.

not enough that some persons regard an attachment as a val-
uable safeguard, 24, 24n, 25, 26.

"reasonably safe" means safe according to the usages, habits and
ordinary risks of the business, 23n, 24, 35.

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APPLIANCES-Continued.

may use his discretion as to kind, 44n.

juries cannot set up a standard of their own, 24, 31.
servant must not be deceived as to degree of danger, 21.
danger must not be increased from want of repair, 21.

master not liable for hidden defects, 22.

nor for inappropriate use, 22.

nor for known defects unless he should have known there was
danger, 23.

master charged with knowledge of that which by ordinary care
he would have discovered, 15, 16n.

but not of that he could have discovered, 16n.

dangerous contrivances not necessarily defective, 42n.

master not required to attend to parts which have to be ad-
justed in their use, 23.

may continue use of such as have proved safe, 27, 28.

general rule has no application to the thing servant required
to repair, 33.

railroads not required to construct appliances after same pat-
tern, 32.

master charged with notice of the liability of appliances to wear
and decay, 33.

must provide for such contingencies, 33.

notice must be brought to master of defects caused by want
of repair, 21n.

or to some one whose duty it is to see they are repaired, 21n.
length of time out of repair may be sufficient to charge master
with notice, 18n.

a machine in repair is not defective unless so hazardous as to
be unfit for use, 25, 26.

rule that carrier must keep pace with improved methods has
no application to master and servant, 26.

see Alabama case, 30.

the term "appliances" includes, not only machinery, premises,
and all implements used, but also persons employed to operate
them, 15n.

general rule does not apply to ordinary implements, other than
machinery, used upon a farm, nor those used in ordinary labor,

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