Perkins County v. Nelson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the trial judge in a wrongful-death case correctly excluded evidence that the victim’s family received compensation from the victim’s life-insurance policy
• “when carriers undertake to convey passengers by the powerful but dangerous agency of steam, public policy and safety require that they should be held to the greatest possible care and diligence.”
• rev’d on other grounds sub nom. Railroad Co. v. Koontz, 104 U.S. 5 (1881)
• defendant should not benefit from something for which he gave no consideration

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).