 It was there laid down that the right which a passenger by railway has to be carried safely does not depend on his having made a contract, but that the fact of his being a passenger casts a duty on the company to carry him safely...  A Treatise on the Law of Railroads - Page 1053by Horace Gay Wood - 1885 - 1953 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Albert Venn Dicey - 1870 - 582 pages
...Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company was quite correct, and that the right which a passenger by railway has ' to be carried safely, does not depend on his having made a contract, but that the fact of his being a passenger casts a duty on the company to carry him safely " (<f). The... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1874 - 960 pages
...Railway Co. was quite correct. It was there laid down, that the right which a passenger by railway has to be carried safely does not depend on his having made a contract, but that the fact of his being a passenger casts a duty on the company to carry him safely." By Cockburn,... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - 1875 - 808 pages
...correct, NEGLIGENCE. he said : " It was there laid down that the right which a passenger by railway has to be carried safely, does not depend on his having made a contract, but that the fact of his being a passenger casts a duty on the company to carry him safely." Nor has the... | |
 | Louis Arthur Goodeve - 1876 - 180 pages
...judges that it is independent of any contract between the passenger and the company ; the law implying a duty on the part of the company to carry him safely (/). Accordingly (in 1854) a reporter of Hell's Life newspaper carried gratuitously by the Great Northern... | |
 | Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - 1912 - 686 pages
...court in Austin v. Great Western R. Co., LH 2 QB 442, that "the right which a passenger by railway has to be carried safely does not depend on his having made a contract, but that the fact of his being a passenger casts a duty on the company to carry him safely." It is unnecesary... | |
 | Albert Venn Dicey, John Henry Truman - 1879 - 586 pages
...passenger, (e] In this case it is laid down by BLACKBURN, J., that " the right which a passenger by railway has to be carried safely does not depend on his having made a contract, but that the fact of his being a passenger casts a duty on the company to carry him safely." (/) A., the... | |
 | 1898 - 2046 pages
...17 Fed. G71, the doctrine is thus stated (syllabus): •. » "The right which a passenger by railway has to be carried safely does not depend on his having...company voluntarily, although gratuitously, and as a matter of favor to him." The principles recognized in the cases we have cited, and in numerous other... | |
 | 1883 - 1914 pages
...overthrown. 3. SAME— DUTY TO CARRY BARELY — QHATUITIOUS CARRIAGE. The right which a passenger by railway has to be carried safely, does not depend on his having...contract, but the fact of his being there creates a duly on the part of the company to carry him safely. It suffices to enable him to maintain an action... | |
 | Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Common Pleas Division - 1880 - 610 pages
...Berwick By. Co. (1) was quite correct. It was there laid down that the right which a passenger by railway has to be carried safely does not depend on his having made a contract, but that the fact of his being a passenger casts a duty on the company to carry him safely ;" or it is... | |
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