 ... not in point, for a different rule of responsibility exists as to such carriers. In respect to goods a carrier is an insurer for the safe transportation and delivery of the property intrusted to it for carriage, and is relieved from liability only...  Reports of Cases Determined in the Appellate Courts of Illinois - Seite 249von Illinois. Appellate Court, Martin L. Newell, Mason Harder Newell, Walter Clyde Jones, Keene Harwood Addington, Basil Jones, James Christopher Cahill, James Max Henderson, Ray Smith - 1910Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Nathaniel Cleveland Moak - 1882 - 896 Seiten
...action is brought upon contract, or for failure to perform the duty, tbe liability is tbe same. While a carrier of passengers is not an insurer of their safety, and does not undertake that the vessel or vehicle, or the machinery he employs, is absolutely safe and... | |
 | 1905 - 1156 Seiten
...Railways, 99 Md. — , 57 Atl. 620. But It Is essential to remember that, while common carriers are held to the exercise of the highest degree of care consistent with their undertaking, passengers are required to exercise only ordinary care and prudence. In Cooke v.... | |
 | 1903 - 1022 Seiten
...intrusted to it for carriage, and is relieved from liability only by the act of God or the public enemy. A carrier of passengers is not an insurer of their safety, and is liable to them for such injuries as result from its failure to exercise proper care for their protection.... | |
 | 1903 - 1262 Seiten
...intrusted to it for carriage, and is relieved from liability only by the act of God or the public enemy. A carrier of passengers Is not an insurer of their safety, and is liable to them for such injuries as result from its failure to exercise proper care for their protection.... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Charles Frederick Remy, George Washington Self, Philip Zoercher, William H. Adams, Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Emma Mary May - 1912 - 864 Seiten
...passengers, is not, under the law, an insurer of their safety, nevertheless, the law requires of it the exercise of the highest degree of care consistent with the mode of its conveyance and the practical prosecntion of its business for the safety and protection of its passengers,... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1904 - 1152 Seiten
...intrusted to it for carriage, and is relieved from liability only by the act of God or the public enemy. A carrier of passengers is not an insurer of their safety, and is liable to them for such injuries as result from its failure to exercise proper care for their protection.... | |
 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. College of Law - 1912 - 104 Seiten
...with their contents were destroyed. A contends that as to his bodily injury, the railroad was bound to the exercise of the highest degree of care consistent with the practical conduct of its business, and that there is a presumption that it did not use such care or... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1909 - 1226 Seiten
...passenger, but the maxim does not apply upon mere proof that an accident to the passenger has happened. A carrier of passengers is not an insurer of their...liable for an injury resulting from such want of care. A declaration merely alleging the relation of carrier and passenger and an injury would not state a... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - 1909 - 1220 Seiten
...passenger, but the maxim does not apply upon mere proof that an accident to the passenger has happened. A carrier of passengers is not an insurer of their...carrier is held to the exercise of the highest degree of eare consistent with the mode of carriage and the practical operation of the business, and is liable... | |
 | 1911 - 868 Seiten
...passengers is not, under the law, an insurer of their safety, nevertheless the law requires of it the exercise of the highest degree of care consistent with the mode of its conveyance and the practical prosecution of its business for the safety and protection of its passengers,... | |
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