 | 1887 - 918 pages
...answerable for the damages which resulted from the failure to bestow that care. The law, for wise reasons, imposes upon a party subjected to injury from a breach of contract the active duty of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible. Public interest... | |
 | Illinois. Appellate Court, Edwin Burritt Smith, Martin L. Newell - 1888 - 706 pages
...reasonable and just. As said by Seldon, J., in Hamilton v. McPearson, 28 NY 67, "The law, for wise reasons, imposes upon a party subjected to injury from a breach of contract, the active duty of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible. Public interest... | |
 | 1891 - 930 pages
...damages, the law in some cases imposes upon a party injured from another's breach of contract or tort the active duty of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible. Where this duty has been found to exist, the labor and expense involved in its performance are chargeable... | |
 | Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1891 - 588 pages
...Person Damaged, on Discovering the Failure of the Company.—It is said that "the law, for wise reasons, imposes upon a party subjected to injury from a breach of contract, the active duty of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible. Public interest... | |
 | William Wheeler Thornton - 1892 - 658 pages
...stock? On the contrary, the law imposes upon a party injured from another's breach of contract or tort the active duty of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible. If, by his negligence or willfulness, he allows the damages to be unnecessarily enhanced, the increased... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - 1895 - 1082 pages
...the defendant responsible. The law imposes upon a party subjected to injury by the action of another the active duty of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible. Where the injury results from breach of contract or unintentional negligence, this obligation to reduce... | |
 | William Benjamin Hale - 1896 - 516 pages
...reasonable steps to prevent loss. The law imposes upon a party subjected to injury by the action of another the active duty of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible. "Where the injury results from breach of contract or unintentional negligence, this obligation to reduce... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - 1896 - 942 pages
...a party injured by another's tort or breach of contract has the active duty imposed upon him by law of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible, and, if possible, to prevent any damage, it would appear that one who has contracted to perform a service... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - 1896 - 970 pages
...a party injured by another's tort or breach of contract has the active duty imposed upon him by law of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible, and, if possible, to prevent any damage, it would appear that one who has contracted to perform a service... | |
 | New York (State). Courts - 1897 - 854 pages
...duty, within a reasonable time after the expiration of a year, to sell the said goods ; " (2) " That the law imposes upon a party subjected to injury from...breach of contract by the other party the active duty to adopt all reasonable means to make the injury as light as possible, to the end that no unusual or... | |
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The law, for wise reasons, imposes upon a party subjected to Injury from a breach of contract the active duty of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible. 
