Duty to provide safe place and appliances for servant; duty not only to make, but to keep, place of work safe; delegation of duty to agent; liability for nonfeasance as well as misfeasance of agent as to duty; failure of agent to give necessary signal; foreman acting as representative of master in or- dering work at particular place; assump- tion of risk by servant; right to assume that there is no danger in obeying specific order; determining vice principalship with respect to character of act causing injury; foreman as fellow servant; liability of mas- ter for negligence of fellow servants in us- ing tools or in making place of work un- safe; right to delegate superintendence of work; adoption by servant of more danger- ous method of doing work; master not bound to furnish implements.of the best or most approved pattern; failure to guard against accident that could not reasonably have been anticipated. 164
Duty to provide safe place of work; fail- ure to box machinery; duty to warn of danger; evidence of custom to guard ma- chinery. 909
Who are vice principals; statute making railroad companies liable for injury to em- ployee by superior servant; applicability to private railroads; liability of receiver of railroad for injury to employee; question whether person is fellow servant one of gen- eral, and not local, law. 706
Test as to whether one is vice principal or fellow servant; delegation of master's duty to agent; duty of master to inspect instru- mentalities; right of servant to rely on per- formance of duty; delegation of duty of in- spection; assumption of risk by servant of
defects in instrumentalities.
937
Validity of statute abrogating fellow serv ant rule as to corporations. 876
Liability of innkeepers and carriers for injuries to guests and passengers by serv- ants; liability of proprietors of theaters, saloons, stores, etc.; servant not acting within scope of duty. 643
MAXIMS.
1. "Every man's house is his castle." Pavesich v. New England L. Ins. Co. (Ga.) 101
2. He who seeks equity must do equity. Campbell v. Justices of Superior Court (Mass.)
311
6. Respondeat superior. Clancy v. Bar- ker (C. C. App. 8th C.) 653
5. Qui facit per alium facit per se.
v. Guglielmo (Or.)
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The leaving of surface supports is not within a provision in a sale by the owner of coal in place of the vein, which is held subject to the duty of supporting the sur- face, by which he undertakes to indemnify the purchaser for any liability for any dam- age which may result to the surface "by reason of the skilful and careful mining and taking away of the coal," but the words re- fer solely to the manner of working the vein. Youghiogheny River Coal Co. v. Al- legheny Nat. Bank Pa.) 637
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NOTES AND BRIEFS.
Mines; grant or reservation of lands and minerals; right of surface owner to sup- port. 637 Interest of widow entitled to life estate in mines underneath land; right to propor- tion of oil produced from wells opened by re- 3. Nemo debet bis vexari pro eadem causa mainder-men; waste by life tenant in drill- Hunt v. Darling (R. I.) ing well; interest of life tenant generally in 4. Nullus videtur dolo facere qui suo jure minerals under land. 986 utitur. Ex parte Chace (R. I.)
497
493 State 466
Right to Enjoin Lowering of Water of, see INJUNCTION, 1.
NOTES AND BRIEFS.
Mills; reasonable use of mill pond; rights of mill owner in water. 933
Rights of Life Tenant in Oil Wells, see LIFE TENANTS, 2.
MORTGAGE.
Estoppel to Plead Limitations as De- fense to Forecloseure Suit, see Es- TOPPEL, 7. Rights of Mortgagee under Policy, see clared to be such.
INSURANCE, 7.
4. Authority to a municipal corporation Right to Foreclose Mortgage to Satisfy to regulate the storage of combustible and Outlawed Note for Interest on inflammable materials includes authority Note Secured by the Mortgage, see to prohibit the storage of refined and other LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, 4. explosive oils within the corporate limits; Securing Series of Notes; When Limi- and an ordinance so providing is not un- tation Begins to run on, see LIMI- reasonable. TATION OF ACTIONS, 5.
Id.
Effect of Payment of Taxes by Pur- chaser of Premises on Running of Limitations, see LIMITATION OF ACTIONS, 7.
See also FIXTURES.
See also INSURANCE.
se-
Mortgage; to secure note; effect as curity for second note given for interest on first one. 261 Jurisdiction of equity of suit to foreclose mortgage in other state or country. 682 Chattel mortgage on growing crops. 827 What property will pass as fixtures under mortgage; things placed on land, but not yet affixed; intent to affix. 893, 900 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
Authorizing Condemnation of Land
for Park Purposes, see EMINENT DOMAIN, 4.
Right to Value of Sewer and Water Pipes under Streets Taken by Fed- eral Government, see EMINENT DOMAIN, 14.
Liability of Official for False Imprison- ment, see FALSE IMPRISONMENT, 2. Rights and Liabilities as to Highway, see HIGHWAYS.
Rates Charged by, for Water, WATERS, 3-5.
legal because the cause or reasons of its enactment are not given, nor because it punishes as a nuisance what neither by it nor by another ordinance is expressly de- Id.
5. A special ordinance granting to a par- ticular person permission to store refined oils within the corporate limits of a town is repealed by a subsequent general ordi- nance, applicable to all persons alike, mak- ing such storage of oils a criminal offense. Id.
Power to regulate lawful business; char- ter authority to make by-laws or ordi- nances in certain cases; power limited to cases and objects specified; legislative power to make ordinances for its own gov- ernment; effect of duty to recite in ordi- nance necessity for its passage; to recite authority under which enacted; effect of fact that general ordinance injures in pe- culiar way a particular individual; validity of ordinance regulating storage of inflammatory substances. 276
No power to pass ordinance conflicting with terms of charter; ordinance requiring registering and numbering of automobiles, and compelling owners to take out license; power of legislature to delegate to munici- palities regulation of street traffic; power of common council to provide for general health, and to abate nuisances. 346
Power to abate nuisance; arrest of motorman to abate nuisance caused by run- ning of trolley cars. 350
Liability for injury by defect in side walk; right to recover over against prop- erty owner amount paid on judgment for such injuries; ordinance imposing on prop- erty owners duty of keeping walks free from ice; provision that, in case of failure to do so, city will remove it at owner's ex- pense; effect of such provision on liability of city for injury.
489
Liability for injury to traveler on side- walk by fall of billboard on abutting property. 618
Legislative authority to improve roads outside of city limits; to enforce police ordinances; to condemn property beyond limits; power of city to take land for park
purposes.
750
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3. The term "negligence" by itself sug- gests only inadvertence or want of ordi- nary care, and, however great may be the degree of such want of care, so long as the element of inadvertence remains, wilful- ness is excluded. Id.
4. A government inspector whose duty it is to see that work is properly done by a dredge employed on a government con- tract is entitled to protection from negli- gent acts of those in charge of it, when upon it, even in the intervals when there is no occasion for him to be actually engaged in any immediate active duty. Steam Dredge No. 1 (C. C. App. 1st C.) 293 Dangerous premises.
5. The occupant of the lower floors of a building, who blocks the stairway leading
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Negligence; last clear chance; negligence in failing to discover perilous position of party injured.
189 Last clear chance. 389 Imputing negligence of engineer to con- 219 ductor.
In leaving horse or team unhitched or negligently hitched in street; fright of, by boy causing runaway; liability for unfore- 246 seen consequences of act.
What contributory negligence will defeat recovery for negligent injury.
295
Negligence concurring with act of God; which was read before them, comes too late liability. on a motion for a new trial. Beason v. State (Tex. Crim. App.) 193
509
2. The admission of evidence of the age, at the time of death, of the parents of one killed by accident, for the purpose of show- ing his expectation of life, although errone- ous because of remoteness, is not ground for new trial. Rincicotti v. John J. O'Brien Contracting Co. (Conn.) 936
Care due to sick, infirm, disabled, and otherwise helpless persons, with whom no contract relation is sustained:-(I.) Scope of note; (II.) no duty as between stran- gers; (III.) principles which determine duty in certain relations: (a) duty or special care due to persons under disability in general; (b) limitation upon this duty where disabled party is trespasser; (c) duty limited by negligence of person under disability; (d) another's negligence not excuse for wilful or wanton injury; (e) summary; (IV.) duty to avoid injury: (a) to the sick and infirm; (b) to per- sons of defective sight or hearing; (c) to persons in helpless situations: (1) sleep- ing on railway track; (2) foot caught in railway track; (3) walking on railway trestle: (4) falling on railway track; (5) driving frightened horse; (6) instances of other helpless situations; (V.) duty of per- sons inflicting injury to care for those in- jured: (a) obligation to prevent aggrava- tion of injury: (b) what is sufficient per- formance of obligation; (VI.) knowledge of disability: (a) actual knowledge gen- erally necessary to creation of duty; (b) when mere belief sufficient to impose duty; (c) negligent ignorance equivalent to knowledge; (VII.) duty to discover an- other's peril or disability: (a) at places where people are likely to be present; (b) whether duty exists as to trespassers; (c) what is sufficient notice of peril or disabil- ity; (VIII.) presumptions in absence of knowledge of disability: (a) right to pre- sume person in peril will help himself; (b) limitations upon exercise of such presump- tion: (1) warning of danger generally necessary as basis for presumption; (2) presumption may be repelled by circum- stances; (3) "last moment" to which pre- sumption may be indulged. 513
What constitutes reasonable diligence to avoid injury; concurring negligence of two or more resulting in injury to third party; right to maintain action against one or all.
561
Right to recover for ordinary negligence under allegation of gross, wilful, or wanton negligence, or vice versa.
601
Negligent injury: proximate cause of; injury committed by act in violation of statute. 801
For Failure to Insert Certain Facts in Special Verdict, see TRIAL, 21.
1. A claim that the jury in a criminal case was prejudiced by a report of a grand jury as to the enforcement of criminal law,
3. A new trial must be granted where the facts found in a special verdict are insuf- ficient to support the judgment for plain- tiff by reason of the absence of findings on matters in dispute essential to the com- plete determination of the issues. Beare v. Wright (N. D.)
409
From Chicken House as Nuisance, see NUISANCES.
NOMINAL DAMAGES. See DAMAGES, 2.
Discrimination against, see CONSTITU- TIONAL LAW, 7.
Arrest of Motorman to Abate, see FALSE IMPRISONMENT.
Street Fair as, see HIGHWAYS, 3. 4. Conductor Pipe Emptying on Sidewalk as, see HIGHWAYS, 5. Injunction against, see INJUNCTION, 3. The characteristic noises and odors issu-
ing from a chicken house and yard which are maintained in a cleanly manner and cared for so as not injuriously to affect the health of any normal person in the neigh- borhood are not a nuisance, although they may make neighboring property uncom- fortable as a residence for invalids. v. Miller (Mass.)
Wade 820
OFFICERS.
advertising purposes; as a taking for Liability for False Imprisonment, see which compensation must be paid. 817 FALSE IMPRISONMENT, 2.
Homicide by, While Making Arrest, PAROL EVIDENCE.
see HOMICIDE.
See EVIDENCE, 12-15.
Removal of Member of Legislature,
see LEGISLATURE.
Waiver of Right of Privacy by, see PRIVACY, 4.
The title to a public office is held sub- ject to the constitutional provision giving the right of removal. French v. Senate (Cal.) 556
NOTES AND BRIEFS.
Officers; implication of all incidental powers necessary for due exercise of power expressly granted; right of attorney gen- eral to sign indictments found by grand jury; presumption in favor of due exe- cution of acts of official nature; offer by public officer to receive a bribe as a punish- 176
able offense.
Individual criminal liability of officer or agent of corporation. 276 Liability of public officials for their acts.
350 What force may be used to make an ar- rest. 382
OIL.
Necessity of License by, see
Explosive, Prohibiting Extensive Stor- ing of, within City Limits, see CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 10. Rights of Life Tenant as to, see LIFE TENANTS, 2.
2. Mutual confidence being the founda- tion of the partnership relation, the mere fact that a member of a partnership is not the owner of property which he has em- barked in the partnership enterprise the same belonging to a third person, who has consented that it may be so used for his benefit, but whose interest is not disclosed
NOTES AND BRIEFS.
Oil; as mineral; as part of land. 988 to the other member of the partnership- does not cause a partnership relation to arise between the other partner and the concealed principal of his copartner. Id. Rights and liabilities as between partners.
Parks; parkways as essential part of park system; condemnation of land for parks and park ways. 750
Forbidding use of land near park for
When partnership exists.
1. A partner may make an agreement with a third person for a division of the profits coming to him from the partner- ship enterprise, and, if the character of the agreement is such as to disclose the essentials necessary to a partnership, a sub- partnership is thereby formed between the partner and the third person; but such person does not become a member of the first partnership, nor is he liable for the debts of that partnership. Morrison v. Dickey (Ga.)
87
3. A woman whose husband is carrying on a partnership business with her money, under an agreement that she shall receive all of his share of the profits of the busi- ness, is liable to account to him for the amount for which he has rendered himself
liable on account of the purchase of a ma- chine by him and his partner for use in the business, although she has given him spe- cial instructions not to purchase the ma- chine, if the machine is in fact necessary or proper for the conduct of the business. Id.
4. In case of a subpartnership between husband and wife in reference to the hus- band's share of the profits of a business in which he is a partner, a gift by the wife to
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