 | Ireland. High Court of Chancery - 1861 - 652 páginas
...defendants. It must be a cause continuing to operate up to the moment of the injury, and there must not be a want of ordinary care on the part of the plaintiff, by which the injury could have been avoided. If there be a want of ordinary care of that kind, then... | |
 | 1900 - 1164 páginas
...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, ¡sa proximate cause or occasion of the injury complained of." Beach, Contrib. Nog. | 7. Mr. Thompson... | |
 | 1884 - 1002 páginas
...engine and machine in any other position than the place in which it was? A. No. Eighteenth. Was there a want of ordinary care on the part of the plaintiff and defendants by commencing to thresh on that »lay? A. On the part of the plaintiff, no; on the part... | |
 | 1903 - 1174 páginas
...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...proximate cause or occasion of the Injury complained of." Without undertaking to define contributory negligence, we see no objection to the Instruction mentioned,... | |
 | 1886 - 646 páginas
...authorize a recovery, the cause should not be remanded. All concur. NOTE. — A recent author has said that "to constitute contributory negligence there must be a want of ordinary care on the part of the plaiutift, and a proximate connection between that and the injury." Proceeding farther, he says:... | |
 | 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 páginas
...Railway Company ». Twiname. such an act or omission on the part of a plaintiff, amounting to a want of ordinary care, as, concurring or co-operating with...plaintiff, and a proximate connection between that and the injury." To make such a want of care a proximate cause of an injury, it must, according to this well... | |
 | 1891 - 974 páginas
...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...negligence, there must be a want of ordinary care, and a proximate connection between that and the injury. Beach, Contrib. Neg. § 7. No doubt the city... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - 1912 - 666 páginas
...omission on part of plaintiff amounting to the want of ordinary care as concurring or co-operating with a negligent act of the defendant is a proximate cause or occasion of the injury complained of." International & GN Rd. Co. v. Schubert, 130 SW 709. This definition of contributory negligence has... | |
 | New York (State). Marine Court (New York), Daniel T. Robertson, Edward Jacobs - 1889 - 484 páginas
...amounting to a want of ordinary care, as. concurring or co-operating with the negligent act of tho defendant, is a proximate cause or occasion of the injury complained of (Beach on Cant. Neg.). General Note. Contributory Negligence induced by Defendant. The law iu such... | |
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Contributory negligence, in its legal signification, is such an act or omission on SECOND DEPARTMENT, DECEMBER TERM, 1897. [Vol. 23. the part of a plaintiff, amounting to a want of ordinary care, as, concurring or co-operating with the negligent act of... 
