The American Law Register and Review (Volume 44) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896. Excerpt: ... unsafe within the meaning of the special clause; and (3) that the master's duty to take care of the cargo justified him, apart from any exceptions in the bill of lading, in landing the plaintiff's goods where he did: Nobel's Explosives Co. v. Jenkins & Co., 1896 2 Q. B. 326. A sleeping-car company, though not a common carrier, owes its passengers certain general duties, arising from the contracts which it makes with them, and involving Sleeping-car companies, the exercise of ordinary and reasonable care and Passengers, attention towards them, and a violation of these Liability duties may be made the subject of an action either ex contractu or ex delicto; and in an action against a sleeping-car company for failure to discharge its duty to provide a properly-warmed and comfortable car for its passengers, it cannot be said, on demurrer, that damages alleged to have been caused by such failure, consisting in suffering from the low temperature, and the contracting a violent cold, which resulted in permanent injury to the eyes, are so remote as not to be recoverable: Hughes v. Pullman Palace Car Co., (Circuit Court, E. D. Missouri, N. D.) 74 Fed. Rep. 499. In a recent case before North, J., of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice of England, a testatrix, who had win, bequeathed all her shares in two specified railway construction, companies, had never owned any shares in either, Demostratio but at the date of her will held debenture stock of each company, which she continued to hold at the time of her death; and it was held that the debenture stock passed under the bequest: In re Weeding, 1896 2 Ch. 364. Ardemus Stewart. The American Law Register And Review.published Monthly By Members Of The Department Of Law Of The University Of Pennsylvania. A...