The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], 7. köideAbraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1889 |
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... PLAINTIFF WAS GUILTY of con- tributory negligence in failing to ascertain if the explosives had been removed , before going into the shop to work with fire on the day of the accident , was properly submitted to the jury . ACTION for ...
... PLAINTIFF WAS GUILTY of con- tributory negligence in failing to ascertain if the explosives had been removed , before going into the shop to work with fire on the day of the accident , was properly submitted to the jury . ACTION for ...
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... plaintiff , the jury assessing the value of the horse at seventy - five dollars , and damages for de- tention at fifty dollars . The judgment set out this verdict , omitting , however , all mention of alternate value . The evi- dence ...
... plaintiff , the jury assessing the value of the horse at seventy - five dollars , and damages for de- tention at fifty dollars . The judgment set out this verdict , omitting , however , all mention of alternate value . The evi- dence ...
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... plaintiff's execution , issued March 27 , 1885 , under which the premises were sold and purchased by plaintiff on June 29 , 1885 , the defendant in execution , Taylor , having then abandoned the premises , and ceased his occupancy ...
... plaintiff's execution , issued March 27 , 1885 , under which the premises were sold and purchased by plaintiff on June 29 , 1885 , the defendant in execution , Taylor , having then abandoned the premises , and ceased his occupancy ...
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... plaintiff in case the verdict is in his favor would not have been added : Mansfield's Digest , sec . 2181. Provis- ion for a personal judgment only would have been made in that event . The condition upon which the defendant retains the ...
... plaintiff in case the verdict is in his favor would not have been added : Mansfield's Digest , sec . 2181. Provis- ion for a personal judgment only would have been made in that event . The condition upon which the defendant retains the ...
Page 126
... plaintiff to Keppel . While Keppel was negotiating with plaintiff for this loan , it became known to plaintiff that the title of a portion of the land which he ( Keppel ) offered as security was in the corporation defendant , for the ...
... plaintiff to Keppel . While Keppel was negotiating with plaintiff for this loan , it became known to plaintiff that the title of a portion of the land which he ( Keppel ) offered as security was in the corporation defendant , for the ...
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Page 970 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 725 - ... the law considers such publication as malicious unless it is fairly made by a person in the discharge of some public or private duty, whether legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.
Page 149 - A child, when adopted, may take the family name of the 'person adopting. After adoption the two shall sustain towards each other the legal relation of parent and child, and have all the rights and be subject to all the duties of that relation.
Page 722 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter In which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory matter, which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable...
Page 495 - But in the view we take of the case it is not necessary to go into...
Page 113 - The limitation as to value has no tendency to exempt from liability for negligence. It does not induce want of care. It exacts from the carrier the measure of care due to the value agreed on. The carrier is bound to respond in that value for Opinion of the Court. negligence. The compensation for carriage is based on that value. The shipper is estopped from saying that the value is greater.
Page 672 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the...
Page 523 - ... where it is a simple question of capacity or authority to contract, arising either on a question of regularity of organization or of power conferred by the charter, a party who has had the benefit of the agreement cannot be permitted, in an action founded on it, to question its validity. It would be in the highest degree inequitable and unjust, to permit the defendant to repudiate a contract the fruits of which he retains.
Page 423 - ... a contingent remainder in fee may be created on a prior remainder in fee, to take effect in the event that the persons to whom the first remainder is. limited, die under the age of twenty-one years, or on any other contingency by which the estate of such persons may be determined before they attain full age.
Page 592 - ... be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one hundred dollars for each offense or by imprisonment in the city or county jail for not less than five days and not more than ten days, or by such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court.