Cases on Bailments and Public Callings: With Especial Reference to Common CarriersBobbs-Merrill Company, 1923 - 1011 pages |
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Page 280 - Constitution protects, we find that when private property is 'affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only.
Page 352 - States, or a judge or the judges thereof, in any case between an employer and employees, or between employers and employees, or between employees, or between persons employed and persons seeking employment, involving, or growing out of, a dispute concerning terms or conditions of employment...
Page 553 - Appeal from a judgment of the general term of the Superior Court of the City of New York, entered upon an order made June 8, 1886, which affirmed a judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered upon the report of a referee.
Page 73 - Defendant afterwards, under leave, reserved at the trial, moved for and obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside...
Page 887 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery or non-delivery of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Page 480 - The law charges this person thus intrusted to carry goods against all events but acts of God and of the enemies of the King. For though the force be never so great, as if an irresistible multitude of people should rob him, nevertheless he is chargeable.
Page 113 - And there is great reason and justice in this rule, for necessitous men are not, truly speaking, free men, but to answer a present exigency will submit to any terms that the crafty may impose upon them.
Page 637 - And this is a politic establishment, contrived by the policy of the law, for the safety of all persons, the necessity of whose affairs oblige them to trust these sorts of persons, that they may be safe in their ways of dealing...
Page 542 - In witness whereof, the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading, all of this tenor and date, one of which being accomplished, the other two to stand void.
Page 437 - Is not that very question a question of fact, or a mixed question of law and fact ? Certainly it is.