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New York, N.H. and H. R. Co. Vs. Henagan

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the verdict. it is so ordered. mr. justice black and mr. justice douglas dissent. they believe there was evidence of negligence sufficient for the jury, as summarized by judge woodbury, speaking for a unanimous court of appeals. 272 f.2d 153. they also dissent from the direction to enter judgment for the petitioner, since they are of the ..... 153, reversed. per curiam. the respondent was a waitress in the grill car of one of petitioner's trains. she brought this action under the federal employers' liability act, 45 u.s.c. 51 et seq., for damages for injuries allegedly sustained when an emergency application of the brakes brought the train to a sudden stop. a jury ..... 364 u.s. 441 certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the first circuit syllabus in this suit against a railroad under the federal employers' liability act by a waitress in the grill car of one of the railroad's trains to recover damages for injuries allegedly sustained when an emergency application of the brakes brought .....

The Hingir-rampur Coal Co. Ltd. and ors. Vs. the State of Orissa and o ...

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1961SC459; [1961]2SCR537

..... 1938) 60 c.l.r. 263 and has elaborately considered the distinction between a tax and a fee. the learned judge examined the scheme of the act and observed that 'the material fact which negatives the theory of fees in the present case is that the money raised ..... if the same standard is employed as a measure for any other tax that tax becomes a tax on income. the learned judge then proceeded to add that if the answer to this question is to be given in the affirmative then certain taxes which ..... of the general revenues by a proper method of appropriation as is done in the case of other government expenses'. the learned judge no doubt added that the said circumstance was not conclusive and pointed out that in fact there was a total absence of ..... the test must be whether the legislative declaration covers the field or not. judged by this test there can be no doubt that the field covered by the impugned act is covered by the central act liii of 1948. 25. it still remains to consider whether section 2 .....

Manick Chand Bagri Vs. Chartered Bank and anr.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1961Cal653

..... filed separate written statements denying their liability. dawoodayal kothari did not contest the suit at the hearing.manik chand bagri contested the suit but thelearned trial judge decreed the suit against boththe defendants. manik chand bagri has preferredthis appeal from the decree passed against him.on the 3rd february, 1950, sadasukh gambhirchand of ..... on the bill and is signed by the drawee and that the mere signature of the drawee without additional words is sufficient. in the meantime, the negotiable instruments act was enacted in 1881. the section was considered by the supreme court in jagjivan mavji v. ranchhoddas meghji, : [1955]1scr503 . in that case, venkat- ..... particular paragraph insists that words of acceptance or importing acceptance must be used before the signature can come within the third paragraph of section 7 of the act. no such limitation is imposed in the statute. signature by itself, on the facts of a particular case, without anything more may be the signing .....

Bhanwarlal and anr. Vs. State

Court : Rajasthan

Reported in : 1961CriLJ561

..... of his case at all and based his findings on the evidence recorded in the other case i.e., of laxmansingh. he has pointed out that the learned judge's observations that none of the prosecution witnesses were cross-examined was not correct in his case.this criticism appears to be true and therefore instead of sending ..... cause injury, but without the intention to cause injury, or knowledge that it will probably be caused. the criminality lies in running the risk of doing such an act with recklessness or indifference as to the consequences. criminal negligence is the gross and culpable neglect or failure to exercise that reasonable and proper care to guard against ..... establishing the guilt of the accused under section 304a. in the case of in re, nidamarti nagabhushanam, 7 mad hc 119 holloway, j., said:culpable rashness is acting with the consciousness that the mischievous and illegal consequences may follow, but with the hope that they will not and often with the belief that the actor has taken .....

The State of Punjab Vs. Sodhi Sukhdev Singh

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1961SC493; [1961]2SCR371

..... to shall be given or withheld. 'if any other view were taken, the mischief intended to be averted would take place, as the judge could not determine the question without ascertaining the contents of the document, and such inquiry, if it did take place must, for obvious reasons, take place in public : beatson v. skene (1860) 5 h. & ..... 66. it was with this background of the state of the english law that sir james fitzjames stephen drafted the law of evidence which was enacted into the indian evidence act (act 1 of 1872). 67. scrutton, j., in asiatic petroleum company ltd. v. anglo-persian oil company ltd. [1916] 1 k.b. 822 which was a ..... injury to the public interest. 107. the learned advocate-general contends that this construction, if accepted, would give a meaning to the provisions of section 123 of the act which would be contrary to its tenor. he classifies documents relating to 'affairs of state' into noxious and innocuous documents, and contends that documents, whose disclosure would .....

State of Uttar Pradesh and ors. Vs. Basti Sugar Mills Co., Ltd.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1961SC420; 1961CriLJ570; [1961(2)FLR101]; (1961)ILLJ220SC; [1961]2SCR330

..... the settlement of the industrial dispute in progress but also for carrying on their future work in sugar factories'. we also concur with the observations of the learned judge that by coming to the conclusion that the workers' demand should be conceded the state government was not passing an order which will have retrospective effect but was ..... . the high court of allahabad allowed the writ petitions, in so far as the question of payment of bonus was concerned, though sapru, j., one of the judges constituting the full bench, expressed a doubt as to the correctness of the view that the order of the state government as regards the payment of bonus was invalid. ..... situation brought into existence an industrial dispute, the government of uttar pradesh, in exercise of the power conferred by sections 6 and 10 of the industrial disputes act, 1947, (xiv of 1947) appointed a court of inquiry and referred the dispute to it. the notification also stated the points which were referred to the court of .....

Manohar Lal Vs. the State of Punjab

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1961SC418; 1961CriLJ570a; [1961(2)FLR107]; (1961)IILLJ67SC; (1961)63PLR660; [1961]2SCR343

..... worker, there does not seem to be anything unreasonable in applying the same or similar principles to the employer who works on his own business. the learned judges of the high court have rested their decision on this part of the case on the reasoning that the terms of the impugned section might be justified on ..... reasonable within art. 19(6) because it was not in the interest of the general public. learned counsel drew our attention to the long title of the act reading 'an act to limit the hours of work of shop assistants and commercial employees and to make certain regulation concerning their holidays, wages and terms of service' and pointed ..... on another ground also, viz., with a view to avoid evasion of provisions specifically designed for the protection of workmen employed. it may be pointed out that acts innocent in themselves may be prohibited and the restrictions in that regard would be reasonable, if the same were necessary to secure the efficient enforcement of valid provisions. .....

V. Kanakaiya Chetty and Co. Vs. the Union of India (Uoi), Represented ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1961Mad398; (1961)1MLJ348

..... disclaims any complicity of its servants, or any responsibility springing from neglect of its duties as bailee in respect of these goods.3. the learned first assistant judge of the city civil court tried this action on the merits, after framing the relevant issues. he came to the conclusion that the goods were lost by ..... precautions had been taken.in surat cotton spinning and weaving mills ltd. v. secy. of state a presumption under section 114, illustration g of the evidence act was drawn, because certain vital evidence had been suppressed by the railway administration. this pointed to a complicity in the theft by some members of the railway administration ..... nor with the further statutory modifications of that liability. the present liability is primarily that of a bailee upon the standards specified in section 151 of the contract act. following the principles expounded in the leading case of coggs v. bernard, i sm. l. c. 175.i might here observe that the criterion in section .....

Chandra Bhan and ors. Vs. the State of Rajasthan and ors.

Court : Rajasthan

Reported in : AIR1961Raj168

..... exist, be ought not to take part in the decision or sit on the tribunal.any direct pecuniary interest, however small, in the subject-matter of inquiry will disqualify a judge, and any interest, though not pecuniary, will have the same effect, if it were sufficiently substantial to create a reasonable suspicion of bias. bull ..... praying for appropriate writs prohibiting the respondents from approving the scheme in question.it is contended that by virtue of section 68d or the act the government has constituted itself a judge of the dispute vis-a-vis the transport undertaking owned, controlled and run by the government on the one hand and the private ..... owned or controlled by the state.we may incidentally examine the scheme of this chapter, before we deal with the criticisms advanced against section 68d of the act. section 68a gives various definitions including the definition of 'state transport undertaking' as meaning inter alia, an undertaking for providing road transport service carried on by .....

Court on Behalf of the State Vs. Radha Krishna Khanna and anr.

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : AIR1961P& H113

..... approval the observations of lord russell of killowen in r. v. gray, (1900) 2 qb 36, at page 40, to the effect that:'any act done or writing published calculated to bring a court or a judge of the court into contempt, or to lower his authority, is a contempt of court.'this category was styled by lord hardwicke, l. c., ..... fudge to take steps against the libeller in the ordinary way for vindication of his character and personal dignity as a judge; but such libel may or may not amount to contempt of court.........when the act of defaming a judge is calculated to obstruct or interfere with the due course of justice or proper administration of law, it would certainly amount ..... law governing contempt of court. as pointed out in halsbury's laws of england, third edition, volume 8, pages 6 and 7,'any act done or writing published which is calculated to bring a court or a judge into contempt, or to lower his authority, or to interfere with the due course of justice or the lawful process of the court, .....