 | 1872 - 438 pages
...negligence of the deceased contributed to the injury. Eckert v. Long Island RR Co., 721. 8. The law has so high a regard for human life that it will not...constitute rashness in the judgment of prudent persons. Although an exposure to injury, for the purpose of saving property, is negligence, for the purpose... | |
 | 1890 - 548 pages
...great bodily harm, it is held that such exposure and risk for such a purpose is not negligent. The law has so high a regard for human life that it will not...constitute rashness in the judgment of prudent persons.' The principle was culled from a well-considered opinion of the Conrt of Appeals of New York, in the... | |
 | 1871 - 530 pages
...J. (Allen and Folger, .1.1 . dissenting.) a. The law has so high a regard for human life that It wUl not Impute negligence to an effort to preserve It,...constitute rashness In the judgment of prudent persons. Jb. 3. The plaintiff's intestate was killed while endeavoring to rescue a child who was upon the track... | |
 | 1892 - 554 pages
...other cases that come to our notice. InEckert v. Railway Co., 4:! NY 502, it was held that " the law has so high a regard for human life that it will not...negligence to an effort to preserve it, unless made under circumstances constituting rashness in tho jndgment lif prndent persons." In that case tho rescuer... | |
 | 1872 - 384 pages
...deliberation. He must act instantly, if at all, as a moment's delay would have been fatal to the child. The law has so high a regard for human life that it will not...to constitute rashness in the judgment of prudent persona. For a person engaged in hie ordinary affairs.'or in the mere protection of property, knowingly... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1873 - 544 pages
...was guilty of no negligence, but was attempting to save her brother, as the engineer swears. The law has so high a regard for human life, that it will not impute negligence to an effort to preserve it. Eckert v. Long-Ialand Railroad, 3 American, 723 ; 43 New York, 502 ; 1 Billiard on Torts (3d ed.),... | |
 | Nebraska. Supreme Court - 1873 - 548 pages
...was guilty of no negligence, but was attempting to save her brother, as the engineer swears. The law has so high a regard for human life, that it will not impute negligence to an effort to preserve it. Eckert v. Loruj-Island Railroad, 3 American, 723 ; 43 New York,. 502 ; 1 ffilliard on Torts (3d ed.),... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1874 - 960 pages
...deliberation. He must act instantly, if at all, as a moment's delay would have been fatal to the child. The law has so high a regard for human life that it will not...place himself in a position where he is liable to receive a serious injury, is negligence, which will preclude a recovery for an injury so received ;... | |
 | Milo Adams McClelland - 1877 - 588 pages
...to him, faithfully and diligently. 9. In respect to human life, the law has so high a regard for it, that it will not impute negligence to an effort to preserve it, unless the effort is made under such circumstances as to constitute recklessness, in the judgment of prudent... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 888 pages
...McLean, 640; SnuWnwRtern R. Co. v. Panlls, 24 Ga. 366. Evans v. City of Utica. The court said : " The law has so high a regard for human life that it will not...under such circumstances as to constitute rashness in th« judgment of prudent persons. Fora person engaged in hi 5 ordinary affairs, or in the mere protection... | |
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The law has so high a regard for human life that it will not impute negligence to an effort to preserve it, unless made under such circumstances as to constitute rashness in the judgment of prudent persons. 
