The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 43West Publishing Company, 1898 |
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Page 11
... evidence from which the jury could have so found is as follows : " The trial court erred in refusing to grant appellants a new trial because the verdict of the jury and the judgment of the court entered thereon * are contrary to the ...
... evidence from which the jury could have so found is as follows : " The trial court erred in refusing to grant appellants a new trial because the verdict of the jury and the judgment of the court entered thereon * are contrary to the ...
Page 16
... evidence of a tax deed issued by a municipal corporation , and what facts shall be conclusively established thereby ... evidence that the tax had been legally levied , Justice Hunter dissents ; holding that proof of the levy of the tax ...
... evidence of a tax deed issued by a municipal corporation , and what facts shall be conclusively established thereby ... evidence that the tax had been legally levied , Justice Hunter dissents ; holding that proof of the levy of the tax ...
Page 26
... evidence was conflicting as to the condition of the bridge , and as to what caused the accident , but con- tends that the verdict is against the great pre- ponderance thereof . If appellee , who was the only eyewitness to the accident ...
... evidence was conflicting as to the condition of the bridge , and as to what caused the accident , but con- tends that the verdict is against the great pre- ponderance thereof . If appellee , who was the only eyewitness to the accident ...
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... EVIDENCE - Bound- ARIES . 1. An instruction that a certain fact " must be shown to the satisfaction of said jury by a pre- ponderance of the evidence " is error . 2. In an action to determine boundary lines between surveys , the court ...
... EVIDENCE - Bound- ARIES . 1. An instruction that a certain fact " must be shown to the satisfaction of said jury by a pre- ponderance of the evidence " is error . 2. In an action to determine boundary lines between surveys , the court ...
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... evidence the pleadings of the parties in suit No. 1,311 , and the final judgment in the district court , of date October 5 , 1883 , whereby , on the verdict of a jury , John D. Freeman recovered from both defendants ( McCray and ...
... evidence the pleadings of the parties in suit No. 1,311 , and the final judgment in the district court , of date October 5 , 1883 , whereby , on the verdict of a jury , John D. Freeman recovered from both defendants ( McCray and ...
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Page 72 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 74 - This entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement endorsed hereon or added hereto, shall be void if the interest of the insured be other than unconditional and sole ownership...
Page 250 - The taking, receiving, reserving, or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done, shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill, or other evidence of debt carries with it, or which has been agreed to be paid thereon.
Page 158 - State or coming from or going to any other State. Persons and property transported over any railroad shall be delivered at any station at charges not exceeding the charges for transportation of persons and property of the same class in the same direction to any more distant station; but excursion and commutation tickets may be issued at special rates.
Page 150 - All individuals, associations and corporations shall have equal right to have persons and property transported over railroads and canals, and no undue or unreasonable discrimination shall be made in charges for, or in facilities for, transportation of freight or passengers within the State or coming from or going to any other State.
Page 160 - No railroad company shall charge, demand or receive from any person, company or corporation, for the transportation of any property or for any other service, a greater sum than it shall at the same time charge, demand or receive from any other person, company or corporation, for a like service from the same place, or upon like condition and under similar circumstances...
Page 94 - Perkins, asked the court to instruct the jury to return a verdict of not guilty as to Emanuel C.
Page 240 - It is true that a statute, containing a prohibition and a penalty, makes the act which it punishes unlawful, and the same may be implied from a penalty without a prohibition; but it does not follow that the unlawfulness of the act was meant by the legislature to avoid a contract made in contravention of it. When the statute is silent, and contains nothing from which the contrary can be properly inferred, a contract in contravention of it is void.
Page 240 - ... the statute must be examined as a whole, to find out whether or not the makers of it meant that a contract in contravention of it should be void, or that it was not to be so.
Page 171 - The officers of a corporation act in a fiduciary capacity in respect to its property in their hands, and may be called to an account for fraud or sometimes even mere mismanagement In respect thereto; but as between itself and its creditors the corporation is simply a debtor, and does not hold its property in trust, or subject to a lien in their favor, in any other sense than does an individual debtor.