Arkansas Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, at the ..., Volume 139

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Woodruff Print. Company, 1920

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Page 396 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards, shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same or give something in earnest to bind the bargain, or in part...
Page 270 - That section numbered sixteen in every township, and when such section has been sold or otherwise disposed of, other lands equivalent thereto and as contiguous as may be shall be granted to the state for the use of the inhabitants of such township for the use of schools.
Page 131 - The case was tried .before a jury, which returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff, and judgment was rendered on the verdict.
Page 9 - No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended, or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be reenacted, and published at length.
Page 289 - Electric companies are bound to use "reasonable care in the construction and maintenance of their lines and apparatus — that is, such care as a reasonable man would use under the circumstances — and will be responsible for any conduct falling short of this standard.
Page 118 - Dike, has received what is secured to her by the laws of this state, all the rest and residue of my estate, real and personal, I give and bequeath, share and share alike, to Mary A. and M. Louise Hammond, daughters of John and Maria Hammond, of Essex county, New York.
Page 25 - That all leases, estates, interests of freehold, or terms of years, or any uncertain interest of, in, to, or out of any messuages, manors, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, made or created by livery and seisin only, or by parol, and not put in writing, and signed by the parties so making or creating the same, or their agents thereunto lawfully authorized by writing, shall have the force and effect of leases or estates at will only...
Page 286 - There was also testimony on the part of the defendant tending to show that the...
Page 209 - And where the testimony leaves the matter uncertain and shows that any one of half a dozen things may have brought about the injury, for some of which the employer is responsible and for some of which he is not, it is not for the jury to guess between these half a dozen causes and find that the negligence of the employer was the real cause, when there is no satisfactory foundation in the testimony for that conclusion.
Page 588 - IB filed, or at any time subsequent, enter upon its records, an order, which shall have all the force of a judgment, providing that there shall be assessed upon the real property of the district a tax sufficient to pay the estimated cost of the improvement, with...

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