This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...if the former be selected it will involve the defense of the "fellow servant rule," while if the latter, no such opposition is possible. Or if compelled to admit the negligence of the engineer he might still avert the "fellow servant rule" by advancing the theory that the engineer as a part of the equipment of the road was selected by the company without a due regard for his competency. Or again the theory may favor a breach of contract rather than a case of fraud, but the further element of doubt is whether the action will lie more successfully upon the ground of breach of the main contract or breach of warranty. Again, an action for damages for trespass to land may succeed if brought in one county, but fail if brought in another, while an action upon the same set of facts may be brought in one court, but not in another, where their jurisdiction is not concurrent. So also this question of detail would arise in an action brought to recover back money paid on a contract with a corporation, as to whether the theory of the case should hold the contract to be malum in se, malum prohibitum, or simply ultra vires. For in the former the court would refuse to grant a remedy, in the second the question of statute would be imperative, and in the latter the matter of notice might be determinate. In such a manner innumerable details affecting the various species of action are the final cruces upon which cases turn, and no theory is complete which stops with the selection of not only a possible, but the best species of action, but must add to this such particularity of detail as will insure a successful outcome. The Use of H yfiothcses. The theory of the case most likely to prove successful, having now been evolved by a process...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition.
