 It appears to us that a man who leaves in a public place, along which persons, and amongst them children, have to pass, a dangerous machine which may be fatal to any one who touches it, without any precaution against mischief, is not only guilty of negligence,...  A Treatise on the Law of Railroads - Page 1265by Horace Gay Wood - 1885 - 1953 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1902 - 806 pages
...amongst them, children, have to pass, a dangerous machine, which may be fatal to any one who touches it, without any precaution against mischief, is not only...or negligence of the defendant has given occasion." The case cited from 5 Kan. 191 [Caulkins v. Mathews], as sustaining the view that a trespasser can... | |
 | 1888 - 564 pages
...have to pass, a dangerous machine which may be fatal to any one who touches it, and withont precantion against mischief, is not only guilty of negligence,...very reprehensible character, and not the less so becanse the imprudent and unanthorized act of another may be necessary to realize the mischief to which... | |
 | 1878 - 540 pages
...amongst them children, have to pass, a dangerous machine which may be fatal to anyone who touches it, without any precaution against mischief, is not only...has given occasion. But, be this as it may, the case can not govern the present ; for the decision proceeded expressly on the ground that there had been... | |
 | 1880 - 920 pages
...The same rule is adopted in Connecticut,3 Pennsylvania,* Illinois,5 Tenit, without any precautions against mischief, is not only guilty of negligence....or negligence of the defendant has given occasion." Clark v. Chambers, 3 QB Div. 327, 339; tt, 7 Cent. LJ 1 1 ; 17 Alb. LJ 505. 1 17 Wall. 657 ; I Cent.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1880 - 886 pages
...negliytnaqf ar*ry reprehensible character, and not the less so because the imprudent and uuauthorut'i act of another may be necessary to realize the mischief to which the unlawful act or ueg^iiprce of the defendant has given occasion. But be this as it may, the case cannot govern the iYwem.... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1882 - 912 pages
...among them children, have to pass, a dangerous machine, which may be fatal to any one who touches it, without any precaution against mischief, is not only...of negligence of a very reprehensible character." It may be that the H'IKX! and the Mangam cases are distinguishable from the other cases on the ground... | |
 | Edmond Robert Turner - 1882 - 210 pages
...machine, which may be fatal to any one who touches it, without any precaution against mischief, is nut only guilty of negligence but of negligence of a very reprehensible character, not the less so because the imprudent and unauthorized act of another may be necessary to realize the... | |
 | 1883 - 908 pages
...among them children, have to pass, a dangerous machine which may be fatal to anyone who touches it, without any precaution against mischief, is not only...or negligence of the defendant has given occasion." In 1874, the Court of Exchequer, in the case of Williams V. The Great Western Railu-ay Co., LR, 9 Exch.... | |
 | 1883 - 572 pages
...among them children, have to pass, a dangerous machine, which may be fatal to any one who touches it, without any precaution against mischief, is not only...of negligence of a very reprehensible character." It may be that the Wood and the Jfanyam cases are distinguishable from the other cases on the ground... | |
 | Ontario. High Court of Justice - 1885 - 846 pages
...pass, a dangerous machine which may be fatal to any one who touches it, without any precaution agai nst mischief, is not only guilty of negligence, but of...or negligence of the defendant has given occasion." In Clarke v. Chambers the defendant put a barrier across a private way on which his premises abutted,... | |
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