A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts

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I do not think we need trouble ourselves with the thought that my view depends upon differences of degree. The whole law does so as soon as it is civilized. See Nash v. United States, 229 U. S. 373, 376, 377. Negligence is all degree—that of the defendant here degree of the nicest sort; and between the variations according to distance that I suppose to exist and the simple universality of the rules in the Twelve Tables or the Leges Barbarorum, there lies the culture of two thousand years.”

Where inflammable matter is brought upon land and kept near the track, see Erickson v. Pennsylvania R. Co., (C. C. A.) 170 Fed. 572; Southern R. Co. v. Wilson, 138 Ala. 510; Railway Co. v. Fire Ass’n, 55 Ark. 163; Cleveland R. Co. v. Scantland, 151 Ind. 488; Boston Excelsior Co. v. Bangor, 93 Me. 52; Peter v. Chicago R. Co., 121 Mich. 324; Kalbfleisch v. Long Island R. Co., 102 N. Y. 520; Southern R. Co. v. Patterson, 105 Va. 6, in accord with the principal case. See also Ross v. Boston R. Co., 6 All. 87.

Macon R. Co. v. McConnell, 27 Ga. 481; Coates v. Missouri R. Co., 61 Mo. 38 (but see Mo. Rev. St. 1909, § 3151); Murphy v. Chicago R. Co., 45 Wis. 222 Contra.

Compare Alabama R. Co. v. Fried, 81 Miss. 314; Louisville R. Co. v. Short, 110 Tenn. 713; San Antonio R. Co. v. Home I. Co., (Tex. Civ. App.) 70 S. W. 999.

[227]. Statement of case abridged. Arguments omitted.

[228]. 116 U. S. 366.

[229]. Little v. Hackett, 116 U. S. 366; Baltimore R. Co. v. Friel, (C. C. A.) 77 Fed. 126; Georgia R. Co. v. Hughes, 87 Ala. 610; Little Rock R. Co. v. Harrell, 58 Ark. 454; Thompson v. Los Angeles R. Co., 165 Cal. 748; Fujise v. Los Angeles R. Co., 12 Cal. App. 207; Woodley v. Baltimore R. Co., 19 D. C. 542; Baltimore R. Co. v. Adams, 10 App. D. C. 97; Chicago R. Co. v. Hines, 183 Ill. 482; Chicago R. Co. v. Leach, 215 Ill. 184; Pittsburgh R. Co. v. Spencer, 98 Ind. 186; Miller v. Louisville R. Co., 128 Ind. 97; Chicago R. Co. v. Groves, 56 Kan. 601; Louisville R. Co. v. Case, 9 Bush, 728; Louisville R. Co. v. Molloy, 122 Ky. 219; Holzab v. New Orleans R. Co., 38 La. Ann. 185; Roby v. Kansas City R. Co., 130 La. 880; Consolidated Gas Co. v. Getty, 96 Md. 683; Cuddy v. Horn, 46 Mich. 596; Galloway v. Detroit Ry., 168 Mich. 343; Flaherty v. Minneapolis R. Co., 39 Minn. 328; Colton v. Willmar R. Co., 99 Minn. 366; Gulf R. Co. v. Barnes, 94 Miss. 484; Becke v. Missouri R. Co., 102 Mo. 544; Sluder v. St. Louis Transit Co., 189 Mo. 107; Bennett v. New Jersey R. Co., 36 N. J. Law, 225; New York R. Co. v. Steinbrenner, 47 N. J. Law, 161; Colegrove v. New York R. Co., 20 N. Y. 492; Webster v. Hudson R. Co., 38 N. Y. 260; Arctic Fire Ins. Co. v. Austin, 69 N. Y. 470; Lewis v. Long Island R. Co., 162 N. Y. 52; Ward v. International R. Co., 206 N. Y. 83; Crampton v. Ivie, 124 N. C. 591; Covington Transfer Co. v. Kelly, 36 Ohio St. 86; Chickasha R. Co. v. Marshall, 43 Okl. 192; Dean v. Pennsylvania R. Co., 129 Pa. St. 514; Bunting v. Hogsett, 139 Pa. St. 363; Markham v. Houston Navigation Co., 73 Tex. 247; Gulf R. Co. v. Pendry, 87 Tex. 553; New York R. Co. v. Cooper, 85 Va. 939; Croft v. Northwestern Steamship Co., 20 Wash. 175 Accord.

[230]. Statement abridged. Greater part of opinion omitted.

[231]. Elyton Land Co. v. Mingea, 89 Ala. 521; Birmingham R. Co. v. Baker, 132 Ala. 507; Hot Springs R. Co. v. Hildreth, 72 Ark. 572; Farley v. Wilmington R. Co., 3 Pennewill 581; Porter v. Jacksonville Electric Co., 64 Fla. 409; Roach v. Western R. Co., 93 Ga. 785; West Chicago R. Co. v. Dougherty, 209 Ill. 241; Nonn v. Chicago R. Co., 232 Ill. 378; Yeates v. Illinois R. Co., 241 Ill. 205; Cincinnati R. Co. v. Cook, 44 Ind. App. 303; Larkin v. Burlington R. Co., 85 Ia. 492; Withey v. Fowler, 164 Ia. 377; City v. Hatch, 57 Kan. 57; Williams v. Withington, 88 Kan. 809; City v. Bott, 151 Ky. 578; State v. Boston R. Co., 80 Me. 430; Denis v. Lewiston R. Co., 104 Me. 39; Philadelphia R. Co. v. Hogeland, 66 Md. 149; United Railways v. Biedler, 98 Md. 564; Randolph v. O’Riordan, 155 Mass. 331; McKernan v. Detroit R. Co., 138 Mich. 519; Follman v. City, 35 Minn. 522; Dickson v. Missouri R. Co., 104 Mo. 491; Petersen v. St. Louis Transit Co., 199 Mo. 331; Farrar v. Metropolitan R. Co., 249 Mo. 210; Loso v. County, 77 Neb. 466; Noyes v. Town, 64 N. H. 361; Noonan v. Consolidated Traction Co., 64 N. J. Law, 579; Dyer v. Erie R. Co., 71 N. Y. 228; Geary v. Metropolitan R. Co., 84 App. Div. 514; Robinson v. Metropolitan R. Co., 91 App. Div. 158; Ward v. Brooklyn R. Co., 119 App. Div. 487; Morris v. Metropolitan R. Co., 63 App. Div. 78; Terwilliger v. Long Island R. Co., 152 App. Div. 168; Kammerdiener v. Rayburn, 233 Pa. St. 328; Sieb v. Central Traction Co., 47 Pa. Super. Ct. 228; Wilson v. Puget Sound R. Co., 52 Wash. 522 Accord.

See McLaughlin v. Pittsburgh R. Co., 252 Pa. St. 32.