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], Volume 53Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1897 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 39
... the car . Action for damages . The plaintiff demurred to the defend- ant's special plea . The demurrer was overruled . The nature of the plea , and of the demurrer , appears in Nov. 1893. ] JOHNSON v . LOUISVILLE ETC. R. R. Co. 39.
... the car . Action for damages . The plaintiff demurred to the defend- ant's special plea . The demurrer was overruled . The nature of the plea , and of the demurrer , appears in Nov. 1893. ] JOHNSON v . LOUISVILLE ETC. R. R. Co. 39.
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... appears in the first syllabus above . The evidence tended to show that the plaintiff's intestate was a passenger on the defendant's train , having purchased a ticket from Cullman , Alabama , to Wilhite , Alabama , stations along the ...
... appears in the first syllabus above . The evidence tended to show that the plaintiff's intestate was a passenger on the defendant's train , having purchased a ticket from Cullman , Alabama , to Wilhite , Alabama , stations along the ...
Page 52
... appears , upon a creditor's bill filed to set aside a conveyance alleged to be fraudulent and void as to creditors , that the grantor in the conveyance , who was a cosurety with the complainant on an administrator's bond , owned a farm ...
... appears , upon a creditor's bill filed to set aside a conveyance alleged to be fraudulent and void as to creditors , that the grantor in the conveyance , who was a cosurety with the complainant on an administrator's bond , owned a farm ...
Page 75
... appears that one Very , in the year 1863 , sold the " timber standing " to one Kings- ley , stipulating that if Very fail to deliver the timber at a desig- nated place by a certain time , the grantee , his heirs and assigns , might ...
... appears that one Very , in the year 1863 , sold the " timber standing " to one Kings- ley , stipulating that if Very fail to deliver the timber at a desig- nated place by a certain time , the grantee , his heirs and assigns , might ...
Page 82
... appear not to have been made with the same pen in the two classes of in- stances , the mark being much heavier upon ... appears to have been made after the blank deed had been filled out , inasmuch as the erasing lines pass over the top ...
... appear not to have been made with the same pen in the two classes of in- stances , the mark being much heavier upon ... appears to have been made after the blank deed had been filled out , inasmuch as the erasing lines pass over the top ...
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Page 139 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 912 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally — ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself — or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 942 - The proposition which these recognized cases suggest, and which is, therefore, to be deduced from them, is that, whenever one person is by circumstances placed in such a position with regard to another that every one of ordinary sense who did think would at once recognize that if he did not use ordinary care and skill in his own conduct with regard to those circumstances he would cause danger of injury to the person or property of the other, a duty arises to use ordinary care and skill to avoid such...
Page 240 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
Page 167 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
Page 78 - CD, of the city aforesaid, merchant, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, and for my use to ask, demand...
Page 847 - This entire policy shall be void if the insured has concealed or misrepresented, in writing or otherwise, any material fact or circumstance concerning this insurance or the subject thereof...
Page 563 - ... to agree upon the manner, and upon the terms and conditions upon which the same may be used or occupied...
Page 163 - A surety is exonerated: 1. In like manner with a guarantor; 2. To the extent to which he is prejudiced by any act of the creditor which would naturally prove injurious to the remedies of the surety or inconsistent with his rights, or which lessens his security; or, 3.
Page 334 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.