 | Herbert Broom - Legal maxims - 1845 - 544 pages
...must be considered as the author of his own wrong (g). Ordinary care, it has, moreover, been observed, must mean that degree of care which may reasonably be expected from a person in the plaintiff's situation (h~) ; and, in the absence of such ordinary care on the part of the plaintiff,... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, James Manning, Thomas Colpitts Granger, John Scott - Law reports, digests, etc - 1848 - 1084 pages
...it, has received some qualifications. Indeed, Lord EUcnborougKs doctrine in Butterfield v. Forrester, which has been generally adopted since, would not...redress : ordinary care must mean that degree of care 1846. HOLDBN «. The LIVERPOOL New Gas Company. (a) I QB 29., 4 P. $ D. 672. 181-6. HOLD EN R The LIVERPOOL... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1892 - 664 pages
...exercise towards like property or in the management of their own property under like circumstances, — that degree of care which may reasonably be expected from a person in the bailee's situation. The negligence which the court, as matter of law, imputes to the plaintiff in the... | |
 | Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 666 pages
...have exercised to be free from the imputation of contributory negligence, is reasonable care, which is that degree of care which may reasonably be expected from a person in his situation. On a hearing in damages after demurrer overruled, in a suit for an injury by the defendant's... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1855 - 804 pages
...has received some qualifications. Indeed, Lord Ellenborough's doctrine, in Butteffteld vs. Forrester, which has been generally adopted since, would not...which may reasonably be expected from a person in the plaintiff's situation." The same doctrine was substantially recognized in the case of CJsaplin vs.... | |
 | Conway Robinson - Actions and defenses - 1855 - 884 pages
...that in which it is applied in the court of queen's bench. "Ordinary care,': Lord Denman considers, "must mean that degree of care which may reasonably be expected from a person in the plaintiff's situation ; and this would evidently be very small indeed in so young a child." 1 Adol.... | |
 | Alexander Ralston Tiffany - Justices of the peace - 1859 - 656 pages
...might have avoided them, he is the author of his own wrong. — 3 M. & IF., 244. Ordinary care means, " that degree of care which may reasonably be expected from a person in the plaintiff's situation."—! Ad. & Ell., NS, 29. In this case — ante, p. 536 — the Judge said :... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 820 pages
...interpreting the phrase as used by Lord Ellenborough in Butterfield v. Forrester, 11 East, 60, means, 'that degree of care which may reasonably be expected from a person in the plaintiff's situation,' and is synonymous with reasonable care." In Kinnard v. Burton, (12 Shepley,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 696 pages
...carrying passengers, the doctrina again declared to be that if the passenger is in the exercise of that degree of care which may reasonably be expected from a person in his situation, and injury occur to him, this is prim& fade evidence of the carrier's liability. 2.... | |
 | Isaac Fletcher Redfield - Railroad law - 1867 - 930 pages
...v. Cone, 22 Vt. R. 213; Lynch v. Nurdin, 1 Ad. & El. (N. s.) 29. In this case, Denman, CJ, says, " Ordinary care must mean that degree of care which may reasonably be expected from a person in the plaintiff's situation." Beers v. The Housatonic Railw., 19 Conn. R. 566 ; Neal v. Gillett, 23 Conn.... | |
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... ordinary care must mean that degree of care which may reasonably be expected from a person in the plaintiff's situation : and this would evidently be very small indeed in so young a child. 
