The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 15Bancroft-Whitney - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 362
... Negligence - fire communicated by locomotive — burden of proof — proximate and remote cause . Sparks from a locomotive kindled fires on lands of two different owners ; the fires united , and after passing over the lands of other owners ...
... Negligence - fire communicated by locomotive — burden of proof — proximate and remote cause . Sparks from a locomotive kindled fires on lands of two different owners ; the fires united , and after passing over the lands of other owners ...
Page 778
... negligence of its servants . ] A servant was driving his master's horse on a street of a city faster than was permitted by the ordinance ; he and the horse were taken into custody by the police , by whose negligence the horse escaped ...
... negligence of its servants . ] A servant was driving his master's horse on a street of a city faster than was permitted by the ordinance ; he and the horse were taken into custody by the police , by whose negligence the horse escaped ...
Page 779
... negligence . ] Nor will the failure to use such precautions be regarded as negligence on the part of the plaintiff if , under all the circumstances of the case , a person of ordinary care and pru dence would be justified in omitting ...
... negligence . ] Nor will the failure to use such precautions be regarded as negligence on the part of the plaintiff if , under all the circumstances of the case , a person of ordinary care and pru dence would be justified in omitting ...
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