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Negligence--The Doctrine Of Last Clear Chance Mar 1923

Negligence--The Doctrine Of Last Clear Chance

Michigan Law Review

Generally conceded to have originated in the famous donkey case of Davies v. Mann, 10 M. & W. 546, the doctrine of last clear chance has been the subject of infinitely varying judicial interpretations. Indeed, the original case itself seems to be clear neither as to the precise facts nor the reasons for the decision. Suffice it for the purpose of this discussion that the owner who had negligently turned his donkey into the road with its feet fettered was allowed to recover for its death resulting from a collision with a negligently driven wagon. Thus was started on …


Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review Mar 1922

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 …


Economic Aspects Of The Law Of Master And Servant, In Its Relation To Industrial Accidents, Clarence A. Lightner Apr 1909

Economic Aspects Of The Law Of Master And Servant, In Its Relation To Industrial Accidents, Clarence A. Lightner

Michigan Law Review

We hear it said frequently that the relations between master and servant have completely altered during the past century and that, due to the introduction of machinery, workmen are much more frequently and more seriously injured than formerly. In fact, these statements have become trite. It takes an article, such as that written by Arthur B. Reeve, in the February, 1907, number of Charities and the Commons, entitled "The Death Roll of Industry," to bring to our minds what these statements actually mean; to impress us with the seriousness of present conditions. Although statistics upon the matter are not as …