Reid v. Ehr
North Dakota Supreme Court
Appeal from order denying motion for new trial and from judgment, Ward county, K. E. Leighton, J. “The use of the thing must bo dangerous according' to common experience, at least to the extent that there is a manifest and appreciable chance of harm from what is done in view of either the actor’s knowledge or of his conscious ignorance.” Com. v. Pierce, 52 Am.
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Appeal from order denying motion for new trial and from judgment, Ward county, K. E. Leighton, J. “The use of the thing must bo dangerous according' to common experience, at least to the extent that there is a manifest and appreciable chance of harm from what is done in view of either the actor’s knowledge or of his conscious ignorance.” Com. v. Pierce, 52 Am. St. Rep. 264. Again: “Mischief which could by no reasonable possibility have been foreseen and which no reasonable person would have anticipated cannot be taken into account as a basis upon which to predicate wrong.” Wabash R. Co. v.…
1Opinion of the CourtGrace, J.
Appeal from a judgment and from an order of the district court of Ward county denying motion for a new trial, K. E. Leighton, Judge.
This action is brought by plaintiff to recover damages by reason of certain injuries suffered and sustained to her person by reason of a dangerous charge and current of electricity passing into and upon her body when she turned on an electric light in a room of a hotel operated by defendant, which room was being occupied by her as a guest and patron of the hotel. It is claimed and charged by plaintiff that the defendant negligently and carelessly failed to keep…
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