Chow v. Brockway
Oregon Supreme Court
Plaintiff appeals. (McKinley Fel. Serv. § 30; Bryant v. Burlington, etc. B. R. Co. 66 Iowa, 305; 55 Am. Rep. 275; Howland v. Mihvaukee, etc. Ry.
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Plaintiff appeals. (McKinley Fel. Serv. § 30; Bryant v. Burlington, etc. B. R. Co. 66 Iowa, 305; 55 Am. Rep. 275; Howland v. Mihvaukee, etc. Ry. Co. 54 Wis. 226; Brick v. Rochester, N. Y. & F. R. R. Co. 98 N. Y. 211.) But in the case of a servant or train-hand engaged in the operation of the road, or riding on the road in the ordinary course of business, it is implied as a part of the contract of employment-that the master shall observe all the care which the exigencies of the situation reasonably require, in furnishing and maintaining a track and road-bed adequately safe for use.
1Opinion of the Court
County Covets — Estates—Jurisdiction First Assumed. — When one county-court lias regularly assumed and is exercising jurisdiction over the estate of a deceased person, it necessarily excludes every other county court from thereafter assuming jurisdiction over the matter.
Coroners — Statutory Proceeding. — The disposition of the property of a decedent by a coroner is a statutory proceeding, and the requirements of the law in that respect must be strictly complied with by one seeking to defend his possession or expenditure of a decedent’s property on that ground.
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