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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
Carriers of Passengers - Duty to Stop at Station to Permit Passenger to Alight-Contributory Negligence of Passenger Plaintiff's intestate was riding in the front end of a crowded vestibule car in the coach next to the tender of the eengine. When the train stopped at his station he tried to leave by the front end, but found the door from the vestibule closed. As he did not know how to open it, or was unwilling to be carried by his station, he stepped from his platform to the bumper of the tender and tried to follow it to the side …
Liability Of The Carrier To Passengers For Injuries By Its Servants, Renville Wheat
Liability Of The Carrier To Passengers For Injuries By Its Servants, Renville Wheat
Michigan Law Review
With the unprecedented development of the means' of transportation in the early nineteenth century, and the increased use of the corporate form of ownership and control of these means, the inadequacy of the familiar rule of law, respondeat superior, as a protection to the travelling public from the torts of the carrier's servants was recognized. The majority of courts applied with the utmost rigor a test which determined the master's liability by considering whether the act complained of was within the scope of the servant's authority. Some few courts said that the liability depended rather upon whether the act was …
Liability Of A Master To Third Persons For The Negligence Of A Stranger Assisting His Servant, Floyd R. Mechem
Liability Of A Master To Third Persons For The Negligence Of A Stranger Assisting His Servant, Floyd R. Mechem
Michigan Law Review
Speaking generally, one person can only be liable for the negligence of another when he stands toward that other in the relation of master and servant. Speaking generally, also, one person can become the servant of another only with the latter's express or implied consent. That consent may be given by him in person or by some agent to whom the power of appointing servants for him has been delegated. Such a power may be expressly conferred or it may arise by implication. There is, for example, a large and familiar class of cases, not now necessary to be considered, …
The Law Of Reason, Fredrick Sir Pollock
The Law Of Reason, Fredrick Sir Pollock
Michigan Law Review
If there is one virtue that our books of authority claim for the Common Law more positively than another, it is that of being reasonable. The law is even said to be the perfection of reason. Not that the meaning of that saying is exhausted by the construction which a layman would naturally put upon it. For, as Coke had to tell King James I., much to his displeasure, there is an artificial reason of the law. Certainty is among the first objects of systematic justice. General principles being once fixed, the only way to attain certainty is to work …