 | John William Smith - 1841 - 744 sider
...I throw a log of timber into the highway (which is an unlawful act), and another man tumbles over, and is hurt, an action on the case only lies, it being...bring trespass, because it is an immediate wrong. Trespass may sometimes lie for the consequences of a lawful act. If in lopping my own trees a bough... | |
 | Archibald John Stephens - 1842 - 1072 sider
...on the case. But this cannot be the general rule, for it is held by the court in the same case, that if I throw a log of timber into the highway (which...bring trespass, because it is an immediate wrong. Trespass may sometimes lie for the consequences of a lawful act. If in lopping my own trees a bough... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1848 - 488 sider
...Shepherd, (Sir W. Black. 894 ; Smith's Leading Cases, 210,) by Blackstone, J., who puts this case, " If I throw a log of timber into the highway, (which...bring trespass, because it is an immediate wrong." In this case, it is the consequential damage ascertained by the decree of 1841, which makes the cause... | |
 | 1848 - 572 sider
...KB 160. (12) 1 Sim. 3«). (13) Ibid. 373. (H) 'i W. Black. 83*. damage ; but if in throwing it I bit another man, he may bring trespass, because it is an immediate wrong." The case of Howell v. Young has never been followed, and is disapproved of in 2 Wms. Sound, 63, n.... | |
 | 1861 - 432 sider
...:—" If I throw a log of timber into the highway (which is an unlawful act), and another man falls over it and is hurt, an action on the case only lies,...bring trespass, because it is an immediate wrong."— Scott v. Shephenl, W. Bl. 894. Highway Act ( as also of the sections of statutes referred to 16 Button... | |
 | Francis Reynolds Yonge Radcliffe, Sir John Charles Miles - 1904 - 648 sider
...man tumbles over, and is hurt, an action on the case only lies, it being a consequen tial damage; hut if in throwing it I hit another man, he may bring trespass, because it is an immediate wrong. Trespass may sometimes lie for the con sequences of a lawful act. If in lopping my own trees a bougk... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - 1908 - 774 sider
...I throw a log of timber into the highway (which is an unlawful act), and another man tumbles over, and is hurt, an action on the case only lies, it being...bring trespass, because it is an immediate wrong. Trespass may sometimes lie for the consequences of a lawful act. If in lopping my own trees a bough... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - 1908 - 376 sider
...I throw a log of timber into the highway (which is an unlawful act), and another man tumbles over, and is hurt, an action on the case only lies, it being...bring trespass, because it is an immediate wrong. Trespass may sometimes lie for the consequences of a lawful act. If in lopping my own trees a bough... | |
 | John Henry Wigmore - 1912 - 1132 sider
...on the case. But this cannot be the general rule; for it is held by the court in the same case, that if I throw a log of timber into the highway (which...bring trespass, because it is an immediate wrong. ... So that lawful or unlawful is quite out of the case; the solid distinction is between direct or... | |
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Court in the same case, that if I throw a log of timber into the highway (which is an unlawful act), and another man tumbles over it, and is hurt, an action on the case only lies, it being a consequential damage ; but if in throwing it I hit another man,... 
