 | 1825 - 800 sider
...bill specially. The learned Judge told the jury that the question for therr consideration was, whether the plaintiff took the bill under circumstances which ought to have excited suspicion. He asked them what they would think of a board put up at the Royal Exchange with these words... | |
 | William Selwyn - 1827 - 760 sider
...properly directed to find a verdict for the defendant, if they thought that the plaintiff had taken the bill under circumstances •which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man : and they having found for the defendant, the court refused to disturb the verdict.... | |
 | 1835 - 520 sider
...for value of a bill which has been stolen or lost, it is no defence that the bill was taken by him under circumstances which ' ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man.' Nothing short of gross negligence will impeach his title. (See Backhouse v. Harrison,... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1829 - 532 sider
...plaintiff had given value for the bill, of which there could be no doubt; and, 2dly, whether he took it under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man. If they thought that he had taken the bill under such circumstances, then, notwithstanding... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1831 - 788 sider
...were properly directed to find for the plaintiff if they thought the defendant had taken the check under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent man, and secondly, that the shopkeeper having taken the check five days after it was due, it was sufficient... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1832 - 660 sider
...properly directed to find a verdict for the defendant, if they thought that the plaintiff had taken the bill under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man, and the jury having found for the defendant, the court refused to disturb the verdict.... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench - 1835 - 1218 sider
...true question which ought to have been submitted to the jury was, whether the plaintiff' had taken the bill under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent man ; Down v. Hailing (a). DENMAN CJ I used the expression gross negligence advisedly, because I thought... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, Thomas Isaac Wharton - 1889 - 648 sider
...circumstance to be taken into consideration by a jury, in determining whether the party took the checks under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent man." Chitty on Bills, 247-8. 546. (Walker r. Geisse.) But, it is said, that the checks in question were... | |
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... under circumstances which ought to have excited the suspicion of a prudent and careful man. 
