Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Vermont: Reported by the Judges of Said Court, Agreeably to a Statute Law of the State, 28. köide |
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The persons summoned as trustees were the trustees of the holders of the first
mortgage bonds of the Vermont Central Railroad Company , and the principal
defendant had for two years previous to that time labored for them at a given
price ...
The persons summoned as trustees were the trustees of the holders of the first
mortgage bonds of the Vermont Central Railroad Company , and the principal
defendant had for two years previous to that time labored for them at a given
price ...
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The opinion of the court was delivered by ISHAM , J. It is admitted that the
trustees were indebted to the principal debtor , in the sum of seventy - five dollars
, at the time of the service of this writ , and in a larger sum at the time of their
disclosure ...
The opinion of the court was delivered by ISHAM , J. It is admitted that the
trustees were indebted to the principal debtor , in the sum of seventy - five dollars
, at the time of the service of this writ , and in a larger sum at the time of their
disclosure ...
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... but the court rendered judgment for the full amount of the note , deducting
endorsements . Exceptions by the defendant . H. Carpenter for the defendant .
The liability of the endorser follows that of the principal , and cannot be seperated
from ...
... but the court rendered judgment for the full amount of the note , deducting
endorsements . Exceptions by the defendant . H. Carpenter for the defendant .
The liability of the endorser follows that of the principal , and cannot be seperated
from ...
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... was delivered by REDFIELD , CH . J . The principal question in this case is ,
whether the plaintiff was bound to treat the estate , real and perSherman , Admr .
v . Estate of Dodge . sonal NOVEMBER TERM , 1855 .
... was delivered by REDFIELD , CH . J . The principal question in this case is ,
whether the plaintiff was bound to treat the estate , real and perSherman , Admr .
v . Estate of Dodge . sonal NOVEMBER TERM , 1855 .
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The principal defendant quarried , dressed , sold and delivered to the trustee a
quantity of granite and laid it down for a permanent walk on the trustee's
premises . He obtained the stone without right from the quarry of a third person ,
who , after ...
The principal defendant quarried , dressed , sold and delivered to the trustee a
quantity of granite and laid it down for a permanent walk on the trustee's
premises . He obtained the stone without right from the quarry of a third person ,
who , after ...
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Page 191 - This opinion does not deprive the states of any resources which they originally possessed. It does not extend to a tax paid by the real property of the bank, in common with the other real property within the state, nor to a tax imposed on the interest which the citizens of Maryland may hold in this institution, in common with other property of the same description throughout the state.
Page 82 - ... all, and all manner of action and actions, cause and causes of action, suits, debts, dues, sums of money, accounts, reckonings...
Page 62 - ... that from the mere relation of master and servant no contract, and therefore no duty, can be implied on the part of the master to cause the servant to be safely and securely carried, or to make the master liable for damage to the servant, arising from any vice or imperfection, unknown to the master, in the carriage, or in the mode of loading and conducting it.
Page 325 - Had you called the porter and he had said that, although he had no recollection of the letter in question, he invariably carried to the post office all the letters found upon the table, this might have done...
Page 591 - ... where the proceedings are not according to the course of the common law, nor inrolled , such as the county-court, courts of hundreds, court-baron, &c.
Page 185 - CP 612, is in point in a case of this kind, viz., that he "could see no difference between negligence and gross negligence; that it was the same thing with the addition of a vituperative epithet.
Page 265 - In consideration whereof the said party of the second part covenants and agrees to and with the said party of the first part to...
Page 363 - ... the agreement is one which by the statute of frauds is required to be in writing.
Page 54 - ... proprietor of the land has a right to the advantage of the stream flowing in its natural course over his land, to use the same as he pleases, for any purposes of his own, not inconsistent with a similar right in the proprietors of the land above or below; so that, neither can any proprietor above diminish the quantity or injure the quality of the water which would otherwise naturally descend, nor can any proprietor below throw back the water without the license or the grant of the proprietor...
Page 502 - In such a case there is no room for any other appropriation than that which arises from the order in which the receipts and payments take place, and are carried into the account. Presumably it is the sum first paid in that is first drawn out. It is the first item on the debit side of the account that is discharged or reduced by the first item on the credit side. The appropriation is made by the very act of setting the two items against each other.