 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1842 - 742 páginas
...question involved is one of negligence ; for negligence in a legal sense is no more nor less than this, the failure to observe, for the protection of the...demand, whereby such other person suffers injury." Negligence has been briefly defined to be, the absence of care, according to the circumstances. Philadelphia,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1892 - 830 páginas
...Lorman, 66 Mich. 533. 7. The court properly defined negligence in the sense used in this case to be "the failure to observe for the protection of the...demand, whereby such other person suffers injury; " citing Railway Co. v. Stark, 38 Mich. 717; Brown v. Railway Co., 49 Id. 153; Kendrick v. Towle, 60... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1905 - 922 páginas
...conclusion is irresistible that the commission was the agent of the city, and that upon the maxim respondent superior, it must answer for any injury sustained...the portion of a city frequented by many persons, FISHES v. NEW BERN. and permitting it to remain suspended for two days, in the place and under the... | |
 | William Evans - 1879 - 802 páginas
...legal sense is no more nor less than this: the failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution...demand, whereby such other person suffers injury." It seems, therefore, an inaccurate use of language to transfer to the term, negligence, those epithets... | |
 | Louisiana. Courts of Appeal, Frank McGloin - 1881 - 438 páginas
...Negligence, in a legal sense, is the failure to observe for the protection of the interests of others that degree of care, precaution and vigilance which the circumstances justly demand, whereby injury is inflicted. In cases of injury to live stock, the best authorities hold railroad companies... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1883 - 796 páginas
...&P. II. RR v. Stork, 38 Mich. 717. It is "the failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution...demand whereby such other person suffers injury," (Cooley, Torts. 630,) and as already said in order to ascertain whether the acts of the servant in... | |
 | 1883 - 908 páginas
...nor less than " the failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, thut degree of care, precaution and vigilance which the...demand, whereby such other person suffers injury." To the same effect are the words of WIU.ES, J., in Grill v. General Iron Screw Colliery Co., LR, 1... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1883 - 876 páginas
...Birmingham Waterworks Co., 11 Ex. 784. The failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution, and vigilance which the circumstances justly_ demand, whereby such other person suffers injury. Cooley, Torts, 630. The absence of care according... | |
 | 1913 - 1140 páginas
...witnesses. [5] Negligence has been defined to be a failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution...demand, whereby such other person suffers Injury. It is conceded that the injuries complained of were inflicted by the hammer being let down on the right... | |
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... the failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution, and vigilance which the circumstances justly demand, whereby such other person suffers injury. 
