Negligence: Rules--decisions--opinions, Volume 1Banks, 1904 - 2562 pages |
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aff'g judg't aff'g s. c. agent alight Atchison &c bailee bailment Baltimore &c Bank Barb bill of lading Boston &c Brooklyn charge Chicago &c Cleveland &c common carrier conductor Conn consignee contract defendant defendant's delivery duty employés Erie Estate freight Galveston &c Gulf &c held Houston &c Illinois C. R. injury innkeeper International &c Iowa Johnson judg't for pl'ff jury Kansas City &c Lake Shore &c liable loss Louis &c Louisville &c Mass Metropolitan Street Minn Misc Missouri &c N. Y. Supp negligence negligent per se passenger Penn Pennsylvania person Philadelphia &c Pittsburg &c plaintiff platform Railroad Co railroad company Railway received rev'g s. c. aff'd S. W. Rep shipper Smith Southern station Super Tenn Texas &c ticket train Wend West Chicago Western Union Teleg York &c
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Page 258 - The person accepting this free ticket, in consideration thereof assumes all risk of all accidents, and expressly agrees that the company shall not be liable, under any circumstances, whether of negligence by their agents or otherwise...
Page 497 - In case any passenger on any railroad shall be injured while on the platform of a car, or on any baggage, wood, or freight car, in violation of the printed regulations of the company posted up at the time in a conspicuous place inside of its passenger cars then in the train, such company shall not be liable for the injury ; provided said company at the time furnished room inside its passenger cars sufficient for the proper accommodation of the passengers.
Page 556 - In some of the states, it is held to be a question of fact, or a mixed question of law and fact, to be submitted to the jury, with proper instructions.
Page 23 - But if a servant goes outside of his employment and without regard to his service, acting maliciously, or in order to effect some purpose of his own, wantonly commits a trespass or causes damage to another, the master is not responsible ; so that the inquiry is whether the wrongful act is in the course of the employment or outside of it and to accomplish a purpose foreign to it. In the latter case the relation of master and servant does not exist so as to hold the master for the act.
Page 96 - Without professing to enter into a minute criticism, it may be said that a bailment is a delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract express or implied to conform to the object or purpose of the trust.
Page 606 - ... it is no excuse for the innkeeper to say, that he delivered the(^) guest the key of the chamber in which he is lodged, and that he left the chamber door open; but he ought to keep the goods and chattels of his guest there in safety ; and therewith agrees, 22 Hen.
Page 323 - ... charge, until the owner or consignee has a reasonable time to take them away, are not liable as common carriers for the loss of the goods...
Page 118 - If the power exists in the corporation as part of its franchise, it is only as an incident of its principal business. The duties of the executive officer of a banking corporation, who is ordinarily the cashier, are very well understood, and while those of the president are not so well defined, he is but the executive agent of the board of directors, to perform such duties as may be devolved upon him, and is not the corporation, and cannot take the place of the governing board, and make contracts...
Page 120 - His ordinary duties are to keep all the funds of the bank, its notes, bills, and other choses in action, to be used from time to time for the ordinary and extraordinary exigencies of the bank.
Page 264 - That a drover traveling on a pass, such as was given in this case, for the purpose of taking care of his stock on the train, is a passenger for hire.