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 67Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1899 |
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Page 41
... payment of his individual debt cannot be enforced against the firm by one taking the note with full knowledge of the facts . Hence , if a partner , who is a postmaster , gives a note in the name of his firm to secure a loan made to him ...
... payment of his individual debt cannot be enforced against the firm by one taking the note with full knowledge of the facts . Hence , if a partner , who is a postmaster , gives a note in the name of his firm to secure a loan made to him ...
Page 51
... PAYMENT - WHO IS . If a corporation transfers all of its property by deed to another corporation , taking in payment negotiable bonds secured by a trust deed to the property conveyed , and , without providing for its debts , divides the ...
... PAYMENT - WHO IS . If a corporation transfers all of its property by deed to another corporation , taking in payment negotiable bonds secured by a trust deed to the property conveyed , and , without providing for its debts , divides the ...
Page 52
... payment of the bonds . Afterward , the First National Bank resigned as trustee , and E. W. Godfrey was appointed its suc- cessor , and he , in the fall of 1892 , advertised the property to be sold on October 4 , 1892 , in default of payment ...
... payment of the bonds . Afterward , the First National Bank resigned as trustee , and E. W. Godfrey was appointed its suc- cessor , and he , in the fall of 1892 , advertised the property to be sold on October 4 , 1892 , in default of payment ...
Page 59
... payment of one dollar and twenty - five cents per acre , and that Charles Miller had the right and could have acquired the title to said land as a homestead under the laws of the United States ; that said " Charles Miller and Mil- ler ...
... payment of one dollar and twenty - five cents per acre , and that Charles Miller had the right and could have acquired the title to said land as a homestead under the laws of the United States ; that said " Charles Miller and Mil- ler ...
Page 72
... payment , over the bondholders , in respect to wages earned within a short period before the appointment of the receiver , is not con- fined to railway corporations , but applies to private corporations , such as a mining and coke ...
... payment , over the bondholders , in respect to wages earned within a short period before the appointment of the receiver , is not con- fined to railway corporations , but applies to private corporations , such as a mining and coke ...
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Page 892 - The court said there must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is .shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as, in the ordinary course of things, does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 636 - Anything which is injurious to health, or indecent, or offensive to the senses, or an obstruction to the free use of property, so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment of life or property, is a nuisance, and the subject of an action.
Page 465 - Provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to mixtures or compounds recognized as ordinary articles or ingredients of articles of food...
Page 883 - Such judgment or adjudication is final and conclusive, not only as to the matter actually determined, but as to every other matter which the parties might have litigated and have had decided, as incident to or essentially connected with the subject-matter of the litigation, and every matter coming within the legitimate purview of the original action, both in respect to matters of claim and of defence
Page 78 - ... every receiver or manager of any property appointed by any court of the United States may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed ; but such suit shall be subject to the general equity jurisdiction of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed, so far as the same shall be necessary to the ends of justice.
Page 465 - If any inferior or cheaper substance or substances have been substituted wholly or in part for it. (3) If any valuable or necessary constituent or ingredient has been wholly or in part abstracted from it. (4) If it is an imitation of, or is sold under the name of, another article. (5) If it consists wholly, or in part, of a diseased, decomposed, putrid, infected, tainted, or rotten animal or vegetable substance or article, whether manufactured or not; or in the case of milk, if it is the produce...
Page 85 - ... of which the mortgagee is to be paid is the net income obtained by deducting from the gross earnings what is required for necessary operating and managing expenses, proper equipment and useful improvements. Every railroad mortgagee in accepting his security impliedly agrees that the current debts made in the ordinary course of business shall be paid from the current receipts before he has any claim upon the income.
Page 552 - ... 1. Actual annexation to the realty, or something appurtenant thereto. 2. Appropriation to the use or purpose of that part of the realty with which it is connected. 3. The intention of the party making the annexation, to make the article a permanent accession to the freehold...
Page 832 - ... no officer, agent, or other representative of the company shall have power to waive any provision or condition of this policy...
Page 727 - The supreme court shall also have power to issue writs of mandamus, review, prohibition, habeas corpus, certiorari, and all other writs necessary and proper to the complete exercise of its appellate and revisory jurisdiction.