The Railroads And The Courts Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Railroads and the Courts Out of a total of seventeen judgments rendered by the circuit courts against the four leading railroad companies of this state, in actions which came before the supreme court for review during a period of eleven years, (from June, 1873, to June, 1884), and which were brought for killing or injuring persons, or injuring property, at railroad crossings, sixteen were reversed and but one was affirmed, and that one was affirmed by a divided court, after two prior judgments in the same case had been reversed by the supreme court. Out of a total of twenty-seven judgments rendered by the circuit courts against the same companies, in actions which came before the supreme court for review during the same period, and which were brought for injuries resulting in death, twenty-four were reversed and but three affirmed, one of which was the judgment above mentioned, affirmed by a divided court after two prior reversals. Out of a total of sixty-three judgments rendered by the circuit courts against the same companies, in cases which involved the question of negligence, and were tried by jury, and which came before the supreme court for review during the same period, fifty-three were reversed and but ten affirmed, five of which were affirmed upon the first trials, and the other five upon the second or third trials. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.