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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... land , to the plain- tiff's , by means of which a reservoir or tub on the plaintiff's land was supplied with water . Plea , the general issue ; trial by jury , March Term , 1855 , -POLAND , J. , presiding .. The plaintiff's evidence ...
... land , to the plain- tiff's , by means of which a reservoir or tub on the plaintiff's land was supplied with water . Plea , the general issue ; trial by jury , March Term , 1855 , -POLAND , J. , presiding .. The plaintiff's evidence ...
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... land , and in this hole placed a tub which filled with water , and laid an aqueduct of lead pipe from the tub to his build- ings , and from that time up to the spring of 1852 , procured in this manner an ample supply of water for his ...
... land , and in this hole placed a tub which filled with water , and laid an aqueduct of lead pipe from the tub to his build- ings , and from that time up to the spring of 1852 , procured in this manner an ample supply of water for his ...
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... land , in a natural channel , and that there was never any such flow of the water of the brook through or under the soil on the defendant's land , as the plaintiff claimed . The defendant also claimed that the plaintiff's tub , after ...
... land , in a natural channel , and that there was never any such flow of the water of the brook through or under the soil on the defendant's land , as the plaintiff claimed . The defendant also claimed that the plaintiff's tub , after ...
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... land , is fully established . See also Greenleaf v . Francis , 18 Pick . 117 . If underground water in its percolations and filtrations , from its peculiar nature , and from our ignorance of its course , and the laws that control it ...
... land , is fully established . See also Greenleaf v . Francis , 18 Pick . 117 . If underground water in its percolations and filtrations , from its peculiar nature , and from our ignorance of its course , and the laws that control it ...
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... land to the plaintiff's tub , which he had sunk on his own land , and that he might lawfully do all that was neces- sary to restore the water to its original flow , and that it was not material what his motive was ; and that he had the ...
... land to the plaintiff's tub , which he had sunk on his own land , and that he might lawfully do all that was neces- sary to restore the water to its original flow , and that it was not material what his motive was ; and that he had the ...
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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.