The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 152West Publishing Company, 1913 |
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... damages was not erroneous because it assumed that plaintiff was injured and suffered bodily pain and mental an- guish , where it did not authorize any damages therefor , unless the jury found for plaintiff , since a finding for ...
... damages was not erroneous because it assumed that plaintiff was injured and suffered bodily pain and mental an- guish , where it did not authorize any damages therefor , unless the jury found for plaintiff , since a finding for ...
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... damages therefor ; alleges I. Himmelberger & Co. bound themselves by the contract to cause all freight of companies and corpora- tions in which they had stock or interest to be shipped over the Morley & Morehouse Railroad ; alleges the ...
... damages therefor ; alleges I. Himmelberger & Co. bound themselves by the contract to cause all freight of companies and corpora- tions in which they had stock or interest to be shipped over the Morley & Morehouse Railroad ; alleges the ...
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... damages is general , and in no wise par- ticularizes the elements of damages , it de- volves upon the defendant to ask an instruc- tion limiting what might possibly be its ef- [ Ed . Note . For other cases , see Appeal and Error , Cent ...
... damages is general , and in no wise par- ticularizes the elements of damages , it de- volves upon the defendant to ask an instruc- tion limiting what might possibly be its ef- [ Ed . Note . For other cases , see Appeal and Error , Cent ...
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... DAMAGES ( § 132 * ) - EXCESSIVE DAMAGES— INJURIES TO PERSON . Where a woman received a fracture at the base of the skull , had her face scratched , her left hand bruised , one of her teeth knocked out , her left eardrum ruptured , her ...
... DAMAGES ( § 132 * ) - EXCESSIVE DAMAGES— INJURIES TO PERSON . Where a woman received a fracture at the base of the skull , had her face scratched , her left hand bruised , one of her teeth knocked out , her left eardrum ruptured , her ...
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... DAMAGES - MARKET VALUE . for damages to a shipment of cattle , testimony In an action against a railroad company as to their market value at the point of de- livery is inadmissible , where it appears that cattle of that nature were not ...
... DAMAGES - MARKET VALUE . for damages to a shipment of cattle , testimony In an action against a railroad company as to their market value at the point of de- livery is inadmissible , where it appears that cattle of that nature were not ...
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Page 187 - Columbia and any of the states or territories and any foreign nation or nations shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or in case of the death of such employee to his or her personal representative...
Page 352 - And it was resolved by them, that for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law,) four things are to be discerned and considered— 1st. What was the common law before the making of the Act. 2nd. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide. 3rd. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth. And, 4th. The true reason of the remedy...
Page 30 - That must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis.
Page 318 - When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress,' or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished...
Page 257 - But, on the other hand, if these special circumstances were wholly unknown to the party breaking the contract, he, at the most, could only be supposed to have had in his contemplation the amount of injury which would arise generally, and in the great multitude of cases not affected by any special circumstances, from such a breach of contract. For had the special circumstances been known, the parties might have specially provided for the breach of contract by special terms as to the damages in that...
Page 357 - goodwill may be properly enough described to be the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment beyond the mere value of the capital stock, funds or property employed therein, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it receives from constant or habitual customers, on account of its local position, or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from other accidental circumstances or necessities, or even from ancient partialities...
Page 352 - The true reason of the remedy; and then the office of all the judges is always to make such construction as shall suppress the mischief, and advance the remedy, and to suppress subtle inventions and evasions for continuance of the mischief, and pro private commodo, and to add force and life to the cure and remedy, according to the true intent of the makers of the Act, pro bono publico.
Page 187 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves or other equipment.
Page 257 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, 1. e., according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it...
Page 447 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...