| 1905 - 1014 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. Beach, Contrib. Neg. p. 8. If plaintiff jumpedatall it\vns involuntary and done to save herself and... | |
| 1905 - 1086 páginas
...performed this duty and act upon this presumption. Little Rock, MR & TR Co. v. Leverett, 48 Ark. 334. To constitute contributory negligence there must be a want of ordinary care on the part of plaintiff and a proximate connection between that and the injury. Beech, Contributory Neg. 7; Bridge... | |
| 1907 - 1274 páginas
...Contributory negligence is such an act or omission on the part of the plaintiff, amounting to a want of ordinary care, as, concurring or co-operating with...plaintiff, and a proximate connection between that and the injury. The defense alleged in the second paragraph of the answer was not such a plea but a special... | |
| Nebraska. Supreme Court, David Allen Campbell, Guy Ashton Brown, Lorenzo Crounse, Walter Alber Leese, Lee Herdmen, Henry Clay Lindsay, Henry Paxon Stoddart - 1908 - 974 páginas
...Contributory negligence is such an act or omission on the part of the plaintiff, amounting to a want of ordinary care, as, concurring or cooperating with...plaintiff, and a proximate connection between that and the injury. The defense alleged in the second paragraph of the answer was not such a plea, but a special... | |
| Montana. Supreme Court - 1908 - 776 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." We approve this definition. The instruction complained of is erroneous. It fails to tell the jury of... | |
| James Barr Ames, Jeremiah Smith - 1909 - 760 páginas
...legal signification, is such an act or omission on the part of a plaintiff, amountiug to a want of ordinary care, as, concurring or cooperating with...proximate cause or occasion of the injury complained of." Beach, Cont. Neg. [2 ed.] sect. 7. The definition given by Shearman & Kedfield in their work on Negligence... | |
| 1918 - 1226 páginas
...Coal Co. v. Micheli (Colorado), 164 Pacific 311, p. 813. CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE — PROXIMATE CAUSE. To constitute contributory negligence there must be a want of ordinary care on the part of the employee and a proximate connection between that and the injury complained of, but the proximate... | |
| Edward Betley Brown, L. S. Le Vernois, Esten Kenneth Williams - 1911 - 834 páginas
...signification, is such an act or omission on the part of a plaintiff, amounting to a want of ordinary euro, as concurring or co-operating with the negligent act...proximate cause or occasion of the injury complained of:" Beach on Contributory Negligence, p. 7. Therefore, if the plaintiff's negligence is the sole cause... | |
| 1914 - 1262 páginas
...its legal signification, is such an act or omission on the part of a plaintiff amounting to want of ordinary care, as, concurring or co-operating with...contributory negligence there must be a want of ordinary care ou the part of the plaintiff, and a proximate connection between that and the Injury." Beech on Negligence,... | |
| Thomas Dwight Crawford - 1914 - 546 páginas
...the 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. Fourche River Valley £ Indian Territory Ry. Co. v. Tippett, 101 Ark. 376, 142 SW 520. b. Knowledge... | |
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