 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - 1892 - 830 sidor
...Lorman, 66 Mich. 533. 7. The court properly defined negligence in the sense used in this case to be "the failure to observe for the protection of the...demand, whereby such other person suffers injury; " citing Railway Co. v. Stark, 38 Mich. 717; Brown v. Railway Co., 49 Id. 153; Kendrick v. Towle, 60... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court - 1905 - 922 sidor
...negligence. In respect to the merits of the case, His Honor properly instructed the jury that "negligence is the failure to observe, for the protection of the...demand, whereby such other person suffers injury." It hardly admits of argument that hanging a live wire on a pole, in the manner testified to by all... | |
 | William Evans - 1879 - 802 sidor
...legal sense is no more nor less than this: the failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution...demand, whereby such other person suffers injury." It seems, therefore, an inaccurate use of language to transfer to the term, negligence, those epithets... | |
 | Louisiana. Courts of Appeal, Frank McGloin - 1881 - 438 sidor
...Negligence, in a legal sense, is the failure to observe for the protection of the interests of others that degree of care, precaution and vigilance which the circumstances justly demand, whereby injury is inflicted. In cases of injury to live stock, the best authorities hold railroad companies... | |
 | Lawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson - 1883 - 796 sidor
...&P. II. RR v. Stork, 38 Mich. 717. It is "the failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution...demand whereby such other person suffers injury," (Cooley, Torts. 630,) and as already said in order to ascertain whether the acts of the servant in... | |
 | 1883 - 908 sidor
...nor less than " the failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, thut degree of care, precaution and vigilance which the...demand, whereby such other person suffers injury." To the same effect are the words of WIU.ES, J., in Grill v. General Iron Screw Colliery Co., LR, 1... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1883 - 876 sidor
...Birmingham Waterworks Co., 11 Ex. 784. The failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution, and vigilance which the circumstances justly_ demand, whereby such other person suffers injury. Cooley, Torts, 630. The absence of care according... | |
 | 1913 - 1140 sidor
...witnesses. [5] Negligence has been defined to be a failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution...demand, whereby such other person suffers Injury. It is conceded that the injuries complained of were inflicted by the hammer being let down on the right... | |
 | 1902 - 1196 sidor
...392, 46 Atl. 747. It has been also termed the failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution,...demand, whereby such other person suffers Injury. Cooley, Torts, 630; Tully v. Railroad Co. (Del. Sup.; not yet officially reported) 47 Atl. 1019. In... | |
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... the failure to observe, for the protection of the interests of another person, that degree of care, precaution, and vigilance which the circumstances justly demand, whereby such other person suffers injury. 
