Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of MassachusettsLittle, Brown, 1899 |
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... town , and had leased the upper story to Charles F. Grundin , by written lease , and had also leased the two other stories to Grun . din , but whether by written lease or not did not appear . In September 1865 , Grundin leased the ...
... town , and had leased the upper story to Charles F. Grundin , by written lease , and had also leased the two other stories to Grun . din , but whether by written lease or not did not appear . In September 1865 , Grundin leased the ...
Page 88
... town one or more notifications in some public place or places , or by some other sufficient manner . Such notice shall require the inhabitants to bring in to the assessors , within a time therein specified , true lists of all their ...
... town one or more notifications in some public place or places , or by some other sufficient manner . Such notice shall require the inhabitants to bring in to the assessors , within a time therein specified , true lists of all their ...
Page 93
... town for injuries alleged to have been caused to a traveller by a defect in the highway on which he was driving with a horse and carriage , the jury were instructed that , for the plaintiff to recover , the defect must have been the ...
... town for injuries alleged to have been caused to a traveller by a defect in the highway on which he was driving with a horse and carriage , the jury were instructed that , for the plaintiff to recover , the defect must have been the ...
Page 94
... town had notice of the defect ; that the highway along this place descended in grade moderately , or about eight feet in fifty , measuring from the highest part , the point of accident being about midway of the descent ; that the ...
... town had notice of the defect ; that the highway along this place descended in grade moderately , or about eight feet in fifty , measuring from the highest part , the point of accident being about midway of the descent ; that the ...
Page 98
... town or city liable on account of an accident happening on a highway , it must hap- pen to a traveller , and the defect of the way must be the sole cause of the injury . Rowell v . Lowell , 7 Gray , 100. Stickney v . Salem , 3 Allen ...
... town or city liable on account of an accident happening on a highway , it must hap- pen to a traveller , and the defect of the way must be the sole cause of the injury . Rowell v . Lowell , 7 Gray , 100. Stickney v . Salem , 3 Allen ...
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Page 240 - An act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof...
Page 13 - When committed upon the high seas, or on any other waters within the admiralty and maritime jurisdiction of the United States and out of the jurisdiction of any particular State...
Page 58 - ... liable as a stockholder accordingly ; and the estates and funds in the hands of such executor, administrator, guardian, or trustee shall be liable in like manner, and to the same extent, as the testator, or intestate, or the ward, or person interested in such trust fund would have been, if he had been living and competent to act, and held the same stock in his own name.
Page 48 - ... used and practised, the parties have a right to a trial by jury ; and this method of procedure shall be held sacred, unless, in causes arising on the high seas, and such as relate to mariners' wages, the legislature shall hereafter find it necessary to alter it.
Page 393 - It has been long established that, when an Act of Parliament is repealed, it must be considered (except as to transactions past • and closed) as if it had never existed.
Page 241 - ... may make contracts, sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court of law and equity as fully as natural persons...
Page 461 - It appears to us that the proper question for the jury in this case, and indeed in all others of the like kind, is, whether the damage was occasioned entirely by the negligence or improper conduct of the defendant, or whether the plaintiff himself so far contributed to the misfortune by his own negligence or want of ordinary and common care and caution, that, but for such negligence or want of ordinary care and caution on his part, the misfortune would not have happened.
Page 112 - Is that it must be sufficiently significant in character, and sufficiently near In point of time, to have a tendency 'to lead the guarded discretion of a reasonable and Just man' to a belief in the existence of this important element in the fact to be proved.
Page 584 - State within which the association is located; but the Legislature of each State may determine and direct the manner and place of taxing all the shares of national banking associations located within the State, subject only to the two restrictions that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State...
Page 321 - The personal property of literary, benevolent, charitable and scientific institutions and of temperance societies incorporated within this commonwealth, the real estate owned and occupied by them or their officers for the purposes for which they are incorporated...