Brown v. Lent
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass on the Case, to recover for the loss of services of the plaintiff’s daughter, and the plaintiff’s expenses in taking care of her, occasioned by an injury received in consequence of the defendant’s want of care anrl prudence in blasting rocks near tbe highway in Northfield. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, June Term, 1847, — Hall, J., presiding.
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Trespass on the Case, to recover for the loss of services of the plaintiff’s daughter, and the plaintiff’s expenses in taking care of her, occasioned by an injury received in consequence of the defendant’s want of care anrl prudence in blasting rocks near tbe highway in Northfield. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury, June Term, 1847, — Hall, J., presiding. On trial the plaintiff gave evidence tending to prove, that a number of men were engaged in blasting stone from a ledge near the highway in Northfield, July 9, 1846, for a culvert on the Vermont Central Rail Road, when a fragment of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Davis, J.
In torts a party may be responsible civiliter, by reason of his participation in the act occasioning the injury, either by direct personal interference, or by giving directions, or commands, or permission, which will make the act, though done by others, his own, in conformity with the maxim, Me qui facit per alium, facit per se; or he may be liable constructively, by reason of his particular rela*532tion and connection with the agent, who commits the injury. In this last case, either the principal, the superior, or master, or the agent and…
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