 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1066 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 different surroundings and circumstances be considered gross negligence. The policy of the law has relegated the determination of such questions... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1034 pages
...conduct and affairs of men, have a relative significance, and cannot be arbitrarily defined. What may be "ordinary care" in one case may, under different surroundings and circumstances, be gross negligence. [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Negligence, Cent Dig. { 6; Dec. Dig. I 4.* For other definitions,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1899 - 1108 pages
...different surroundings and circumstances, be gross negligence. The policy of the law has relocated the determination of such questions to the jury, under proper instructions from the court. lt is theii province to note the special circumstances and surroundings of each particular case,... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1917 - 824 pages
...measured by the exigencies of the occasion." As was said in Fisher V. C. & Ry. Co., 104 Va. at p. 639: "The policy of the law has relegated the determination...and then say whether the conduct of the parties in the case was such as would be expected of reasonable, prudent men, under a similar state of affairs.... | |
 | District of Columbia. Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 690 pages
...a relative significance, depending upon the special circumstances of a given case; and consequently what may be deemed ordinary care in one case may. under different conditions presented in another case, be gross negligence; and the determination of such question is... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1924 - 1020 pages
...arbitrarily defined, but have a relative significance as applied to the conduct and affairs of men, for what may be deemed ordinary care In one case may under different circumstances be considered negligence. The determination of such questions is usually left to the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1132 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,...the court. It is their province to note the special circumsiances and surroundings of each particular case, and then say whether the conduct of the parties... | |
 | Law - 1908 - 556 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,...their province to note the special circumstances and surrounding3 of each particular case, and then say whether the conduct of the parties in that case... | |
 | Law - 1905 - 464 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...questions to the jury, under proper instructions from the court. Iris their province to note the special surroundings and circumstances of each particular case,... | |
 | Astronautics - 1971 - 312 pages
...modern situations, negligence will consist "in" not having looked as systematically as one could have. "The policy of the law has relegated the determination of such questions to the jury (ie, was he a reasonably prudent man?), under proper instruction from the court." When products and... | |
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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... 
