 | James Bradley Thayer - Evidence (Law) - 1898 - 680 pages
...Fuller, CJ, for the court, quoted with approval the language of an earlier case before the same tribunal: "The policy of the law has relegated the determination of such questions to the jury, nnder proper instructions from the court. . . . When a given state of facts is such that reasonable... | |
 | John Milton Gardner, Walter James Eagle - Employers' liability - 1899 - 910 pages
...163 US 353, 365, 368) and the court there made observations which we do well to bear in mind here: " What may be deemed ordinary care in one case, may,...and surroundings of each particular case, and then to say whether the conduct of the parties in that case was such as would be expected of reasonable,... | |
 | Railroad law - 1899 - 942 pages
...368, 16 Sup. Ct. 1104. And the court there made observations which we do well to bear in mind here : "What may be deemed ordinary care in one case may,...such questions to the jury, under proper instructions of the court. It is their province to note the special circumstances and surroundings of such particular... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1900 - 1230 pages
...Gentry, 163 • US 353, 16 Sup. Ct. 1104, 41 L. Ed. 186, Is very pertinent in such a case as this: "The policy of the law has relegated the determination...particular case, and then say whether the conduct of thé parties in that case was such as would be expected of reasonable and prudent men under a similar... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1118 pages
...to the conduct and affairs of men, have a relative significance, and cannot be arbitrarily defined. What may be deemed ordinary care in one case may,...circumstances, be gross negligence. The policy of tbe law has relegated the determination of such questions to the jury, under proper Instructions from... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1416 pages
...case," this court has said, " may, under different surroundings and circumstances, be gross neg'.lgence. The policy of the law has relegated the determination...questions to the jury under proper instructions from tliewurt. It is their province to note the вресЫ circumstances and surroundings of each particular... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 858 pages
...whether the company was or was not guilty of negligence." In the same case the Court says on page 417 : "What may be deemed ordinary care in one case, may,...surroundings and circumstances, be gross negligence." The defendant urges in support of this instruction that it was copied from one given by the Court below... | |
 | Railroad law - 1902 - 1024 pages
...to say arbitrarily in every case where the line must be drawn between negligence and ordinary care. What may be deemed ordinary care in one case may, under different circumstances, be gross negligence. The policy of the law has relegated the determination of such questions... | |
 | Railroad law - 1903 - 1022 pages
...to the conduct and affairs of men, have a relative significance, and cannot be arbitrarily defined. What may be deemed ordinary care in one case may under...circumstances and surroundings of each particular case, and say whether the conduct of the parties in that case was such as would be expected of reasonably prudent... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1256 pages
...to the conduct and affairs of men, have a relative significance, and cannot be arbitrarily denned. What may be deemed ordinary care In one case may under...circumstances and surroundings of each particular case, and say whether the conduct of the parties In that case was such as would be expected of reasonably prudent... | |
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What may be deemed ordinary care in one case, may, under different surroundings and circumstances, be gross negligence. The policy of the law has relegated the determination of such questions to the jury, under proper instructions from the court. It is... 
