 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1890 - 1316 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 impute negligence t4> an effort to preserve it, unless made under such circumstances as to constitute rashness in the... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1890 - 924 pages
...case of the rescue of a child from being run over by an approahing train, the court say that the ' law has so high a regard for human life that it will not imputenegligence to an effort to preserve it, unless made under such circumstances as to constitute... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1891 - 1034 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 court of appeals of New York in the... | |
 | 1891 - 930 pages
...cases that come to our notice. In Eckert v. Lung hland R. Co., 43 N. У. 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 the judgment of prudent persons." In that case the rescuer lost... | |
 | 1892 - 300 pages
...directions from the court. '' The law will not impute negligence to an effort to preserve human life, unless made under such circumstances as to constitute rashness in the judgment of prudent persons. It is difficult, if not impossible, to lay down in advance a rule by which to determine the extent... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1893 - 1042 pages
...to our notice. In Eckert v. Long Island RR Co., 43 NY 502, 3 Am. Rep. 721, 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 the judgment of prudent persons." In that case the rescuer... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - 1894 - 576 pages
...of the rescue of a child from being run over by an approaching train, the court say that " the law has so high a regard for human life that it will not...constitute rashness in the judgment of prudent persons." The law does not require cowardice or absolute inaction in such a state of things. Neither does it... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1894 - 1070 pages
...Desire to Save Lift— Curiosity. — It in now well settled that the law has eo high a regard for buman life that it will not impute negligence to an effort to preserve life unless made under circumstances which, in the judgment of prudent persons, constitute rashness:... | |
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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. 
