 But the law does not allow a public carrier to abandon altogether his obligations to the public, and to stipulate for exemptions which are unreasonable and improper, amounting to an abnegation of the essential duties of his employment. It being against...  The Law Times - Page 1601874Full view - About this book
 | Law - 1874 - 844 pages
...great severity and injustice. In the case before us, the law, in the absence of special contract, fixes the degree of care and diligence due from the railroad...will relieve the company from the exercise of that cure nnd diligence, or which, in other words, will excuse them for negligence in the performance of... | |
 | Law - 1874 - 752 pages
...injustice. In the case before us, the law, in the absence of special contract, fixes the degree »f care and diligence due from the railroad company to the persons carried on it« traîna. A failure to exercise such care and diligence is negligence. It needs no epithet properly... | |
 | Milo Adams McClelland - 1877 - 588 pages
...must often operate with great severity and injustice. In the case under consideration, the law fixed the degree of care and diligence due from the railroad company to the person carried on its trains ; it was unnecessary to tell the jury whether, in the language of law... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 1124 pages
...modern authorities. * • * In the case before us, the law, In the absence of special contract, fixes the degree of care and diligence due from the railroad...needs no epithet properly and legally to describe it" See, also, Milwaukee, etc., Ry. Co. v. Arms, 91 US 489, 492, 23 L. Ed. 374 ; Purple v. Union Pacific... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1889 - 762 pages
...unreasonable and improper, amounting to an abnegation of the essential duties of his employment. It being against the policy of the law to allow stipulations which will relieve the railroad company from the exercise of care or diligence, or which, in other words, will excuse it for... | |
 | Insurance law - 1889 - 1014 pages
...unreasonable and improper, amounting to an abnegation of the essential duties of his employment. It being against the policy of the law to allow stipulations which will relieve the railroad company from the exercise of care or diligence, or which, in other words, will excuse it for... | |
 | Robert Hutchinson - Carriers - 1891 - 1234 pages
...unreasonable and improper, amounting to an abnegation of the essential duties of his employment It being against the policy of the law to allow stipulations which will relieve the railroad company from the exercise of care and diligence, or which, in other words, will excuse it... | |
 | John Lewis - Corporation law - 1893 - 820 pages
...duties of his employment. ^ fl « r *•" 292 LITTLE ROCK & FT. S. Ev. Co. ET AL. v. CRAVENS. " It being against the policy of the law to allow stipulations which will relieve the railroad company from the exercise of care or diligence, or which, in other words, will excuse it for... | |
 | Charles Fisk Beach - Antitrust law - 1898 - 842 pages
...unreasonable and improper, amounting to an abnegation of the essential duties of his employment. It being against the policy of the law to allow stipulations which will relieve the railroad company from the exercise of care or diligence, or which, in other words, will excuse it for... | |
 | John William Dwyer - Conflict of laws - 1899 - 540 pages
...unreasonable and improper, amounting to an abnegation of the essential duties of his employment. It being against the policy of the law to allow stipulations which will relieve the railroad company from the exercise of care or diligence, or which, in other words, will excuse it for... | |
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