| Alabama. Supreme Court - 1893 - 776 páginas
...entitled to re[Warden v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.J cover, Mr. Justice SWAYNE observing: uHis injury was due to his own recklessness and folly....demonstration as anything short of mathematics will permit." In the case of Kresanowski v. No. Pac. Railway Co., IS Fed. Rep. 229, the facts were, that the plaintiff,... | |
| 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 - 1891 - 780 páginas
...of the Court in Railroad Co. v. Jones, as applicable to this case: " This [contributory negligence] is shown with as near an approach to a demonstration as anything short of mathematics will permit." There was no fact in this case for the determination of the jury. The question was therefore one purely... | |
| 1890 - 548 páginas
...uninjured. He wonld have escaped also if he had been there. His injury was due to his own recklessuess and folly. He was himself the author of his misfortune. This is shown with as near au approach to a demonstration as uny thing short of mathematics will permit." In Hallway Co. v. Propst,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 858 páginas
...box-car, where he should have been, were uninjured. He would have escaped also if he had been there. His injury was due to his own recklessness and folly....shown with as near an approach to a demonstration as any thing short of mathematics will permit. The case is thus clearly brought within the second of the... | |
| 1903 - 1116 páginas
...car, where he should have been, were uninjured. He would have escaped, also. if he had been there. His injury was due to his own recklessness and folly....demonstration as anything short of mathematics will permit." And in the Egeland Case, supra, Mr. Justice Peckham, in referring to the effect of the dangerous position... | |
| Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1883 - 760 páginas
...injured had he used ordinary care, he was not entitled to recover, Mr. Justice SWAYNE observing : " His injury was due to his own recklessness and folly....demonstration as anything short of mathematics will permit." In the case of Kresanowski v. Railroad Co., 18 Fed. Rep. 229, the facts were that the plaiutifi', au... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (8th Circuit), George Washington McCrary - 1884 - 752 páginas
...box car, where he should have been, were uninjured. He would have escaped also if he had been there. His injury was due to his own recklessness and folly....an approach to a demonstration as anything short of Kresanowski v. Northern Pac. R. Co. mathematics will permit. The case is thus clearly brought within... | |
| 1892 - 972 páginas
...been iujured bad he used ordinary care, he was not entitled torecover, Mr. Justice SWAYNK observing: "His Injury was due to his own recklessness and folly....demonstration as anything short of mathematics will permit. " In the case of Kresanowski v. Railroad Co., 18 Fed. Rep. 229, the facts were that the plaintiff,... | |
| 1887 - 764 páginas
...would have escaped also if he had been there. His injury was due to his own folly and recklessness. He was himself the author of his misfortune. This...demonstration as anything short of mathematics will permit." If the testimony in this case is true, and it is neither contradictory nor conflicting, nor are the... | |
| 1887 - 988 páginas
...would have escaped also if he had been there. His injury was due to his own folly and recklessness. He was himself the author of his misfortune. This...shown with as near an approach to a demonstration as any thing short of mathematics will permit." If the testimony in this case is true, and it is neither... | |
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