The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 43West Publishing Company, 1898 |
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... presented to the court the following motion to sup- press the depositions of the witness J. R. Peel [ here the bill sets out in full the motion , in which various facts and circumstances are detailed as constituting grounds for the sup ...
... presented to the court the following motion to sup- press the depositions of the witness J. R. Peel [ here the bill sets out in full the motion , in which various facts and circumstances are detailed as constituting grounds for the sup ...
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... presented in time , and this court will only pass upon the question which the court below passed upon , and which is presented here for revision , viz . whether or not the objections to the deposition were pre- sented in time . " We ...
... presented in time , and this court will only pass upon the question which the court below passed upon , and which is presented here for revision , viz . whether or not the objections to the deposition were pre- sented in time . " We ...
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... presentation of a proper petition . The language is , " the mayor of said city or town , " and means , doubtless , the ... presented to the mayor , it follows that he had no power to order it . The ques- tion is therefore answered in the ...
... presentation of a proper petition . The language is , " the mayor of said city or town , " and means , doubtless , the ... presented to the mayor , it follows that he had no power to order it . The ques- tion is therefore answered in the ...
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... presented by the pleadings of appellee was as to wheth- er appellant had agreed to pay him a certain fee for certain services , and the testimony should have been confined to that issue . The testimony as to the contract was quite con ...
... presented by the pleadings of appellee was as to wheth- er appellant had agreed to pay him a certain fee for certain services , and the testimony should have been confined to that issue . The testimony as to the contract was quite con ...
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... presented in the second assignment of error , they should have asked a charge upon that question ; and , if the charge had been cor- rectly framed in presenting the point sug- gested in the assignment , the court should have given it ...
... presented in the second assignment of error , they should have asked a charge upon that question ; and , if the charge had been cor- rectly framed in presenting the point sug- gested in the assignment , the court should have given it ...
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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.