 | 1905 - 1120 pages
...as follows: "Contributory negligence is such an net or omission on the part of the person injured, amounting to a want of ordinary care, as, concurring or co-operating with the negligent act or acts of the defendant, was the proximate cause of the Injury complained of by the plaintiffs, and... | |
 | 1900 - 1164 pages
...follows: "Contributory negligence, in Its legal signification, is such an act or omission on the part of a plaintiff amounting to a want of ordinary care, as,...co-operating with the negligent act of the defendant, ¡sa proximate cause or occasion of the injury complained of." Beach, Contrib. Nog. | 7. Mr. Thompson... | |
 | 1918 - 1218 pages
...the part of the plaintiff, amounting to want of reasonable and ordinary care, as contributing to. or concurring or co-operating with, the negligent act...the defendant, is the proximate cause of the injury and damage complained of. th:it is. guch negligence on the part of such plaintiff as helped to produce... | |
 | 1890 - 1226 pages
...received by him? Contributory negligence consists, in contemplation of law, in such acts or omissions on the part of the plaintiff, amounting to a want...as, concurring or co-operating with the negligent acts of the defendant, are a proximate cause or occasion of the injury complained of. It is a general... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1887 - 682 pages
...VOL. 111.— 38 Citizens Street Railway Company ». Twiname. such an act or omission on the part of a plaintiff, amounting to a want of ordinary care, as,...co-operating with the negligent act of the defendant, is a proximate cause or occasion of the injury complained of. To constitute contributory negligence there... | |
 | John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - 1888 - 1042 pages
..."Contributory negligence, in its legal signification, is such an act or omission, on the part of a plaintiff, amounting to a want of ordinary care, as,...co-operating with the negligent act of the defendant, is a proximate cause of the injury complained of." Beach on Con. Neg. §§ 3. 7"Contributory negligence... | |
 | 1891 - 974 pages
...negligence technically know as "con tributory, "which is the commission or omission by the party of an act amounting to a want of ordinary care, as concurring or co-operating with the negligent act of another. and which is the proximatecause or occasion of the injury complained of. To constitute contributory... | |
 | 1914 - 1434 pages
...objection has been presented: "Contributory negligence, in its legal signification, is such an act or omission on the part of the plaintiff amounting to a want of ordinary care and prudence as concurring or co-operating wlih some negligence on the part of the defendant as the... | |
 | 1895 - 1200 pages
...which are justly required of a careful and prudent man under ordinary circumstances. In such a ease the negligent act of the defendant Is the proximate cause of the injury, and the plaintiff may have his action, * » » even though the injury would not have happened if the... | |
 | 1912 - 1356 pages
...follows: "Contributory negligence. In Its legal signification, Is such an act or omission on the part of plaintiff, amounting to a want of ordinary care, as, concurring or co-operating with some negligent act of defendant, is a proximate cause of the Injury complained of." The assignment... | |
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Contributory negligence, in its legal signification, is such an act or omission on the part of a plaintiff, amounting to a want of ordinary care, as, concurring or co-operating with the negligent act of the defendant, is a proximate cause or occasion... 
