Place v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case lor negligence. Plea, the general issne. Trial by jury at the October Term, 1906, Essex County, Tyler, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion fully states the ease. It was error to refuse to instruct the jury as to the meaning of proximate and remote cause. A person is responsible for only the natural and probable consequence of his acts, or such consequence as may be foreseen by a prudent man.
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Case lor negligence. Plea, the general issne. Trial by jury at the October Term, 1906, Essex County, Tyler, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion fully states the ease. It was error to refuse to instruct the jury as to the meaning of proximate and remote cause. A person is responsible for only the natural and probable consequence of his acts, or such consequence as may be foreseen by a prudent man. Beach, Neg. §31,' McDonald v. Snelling, 14 Allen 295; Pollard v. M. G. B. B. Go., 87 Me. 51; 1 Thomp. Neg. §57. The decision of the trial court…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Superior J.
The plaintiff at some time prior to the accident in question had worked for the defendant shoveling snow ten and one-half days, and at another time three or four days; this was all the experience he had in railroading; he had usually been employed in a mill or as a laborer.
On the 26th of January, 1906, he was employed by the defendant and worked shoveling coal, most of the time, from cars into the coal chute, until February 2, when he was ordered to go with one Boin to shovel part of a car of coal into the boiler house; he had been there for that purpose once before. The coal…
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- Milwaukee & Saint Paul Railway Co. v. KelloggSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Latremouille v. Bennington & Rutland Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1891
- Boyden v. Fitchburg RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1899
- Gilson v. Delaware & Hudson Canal Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1892
- Morrisette v. Canadian Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1902
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- Dailey v. Swift & Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1912
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