 | United States. Supreme Court - 1853 - 672 Seiten
...verdict has found this to be a case of gross negligence. When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy...for such transportation be pecuniary or otherwise, fhe personal safety of the passengers should not be left to the sport of chance or the negligence of... | |
 | Conway Robinson - 1855 - 884 Seiten
...United States, Mr. Justice Grier has said that " where carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy...such cases may well deserve the epithet of gross." Philn. Sf Reading Co. v. Derby, 14 How. 486. The court has reaffirmed the same doctrine in an opinion... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1855 - 1120 Seiten
...persons by the powerful ami dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence,...such cases, may well deserve the epithet of "gross." Philadelphia & Reading R. It. Co. ». Derby, 14 Howard, (US) 4S!>. See Boyce ». Anderson, 2 Peters,... | |
 | John William Smith, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace, John William Wallace - 1855 - 1006 Seiten
...Derby, 14 Howard, 486, where the court declared, that when "carriers undertake to convey persons by the dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the yrea/est possible care and diligence : and that any negligence in such cases may well deserve the epithet... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1855 - 702 Seiten
...of a passenger on a railroad, this court said : " When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. And whether the consideration for such... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1856 - 728 Seiten
...arrangements necessary to the safety of the passengers.2 And when _carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they_be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. The personal safety of the passengers should... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1857 - 936 Seiten
...negligence. When carrier* undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, publie policy and safety require that they be held to the...otherwise, the personal safety of the passengers should not lie Isft to tlic sport of chance or the negligence of careless agents. Any negligence in such cases... | |
 | Alfred Conkling - 1857 - 502 Seiten
...persons by the powerful and dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence....the personal safety of the passengers should not be Ifeft to the sport of chance or the negligence of careless agents. Any negligence, in such cases, may... | |
 | Alexander Ralston Tiffany - 1859 - 656 Seiten
...carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public feeling and safety require that they be held to the greatest...care and diligence, and whether the consideration of such transportation be pecuniary or otherwise, the personal safety of the passengers should not... | |
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When carriers undertake to convey persons by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they be held to the greatest possible care and diligence. And whether the consideration for such transportation be pecuniary... 
