Connecticut Reports: Containing Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors, Volume 59Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1891 |
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... amount in its judgment to meet the statutory requirements . Hart v . Brown , 2 Root , 301 ; Brewster v . Link , 28 Mo. , 147 ; Lobdell v . Inhab . of New Bedford , 1 Mass . , 153 ; Swift v . Applebone , 23 Mich . , 252 ; Wynne v ...
... amount in its judgment to meet the statutory requirements . Hart v . Brown , 2 Root , 301 ; Brewster v . Link , 28 Mo. , 147 ; Lobdell v . Inhab . of New Bedford , 1 Mass . , 153 ; Swift v . Applebone , 23 Mich . , 252 ; Wynne v ...
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... amounts to one hundred dollars or more , may , while the proceedings therefor are pending , file his motion in said court to be made a party thereto , alleging under oath that such claim is of the amount afore- said ; and thereafter the ...
... amounts to one hundred dollars or more , may , while the proceedings therefor are pending , file his motion in said court to be made a party thereto , alleging under oath that such claim is of the amount afore- said ; and thereafter the ...
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... filing of a plea in abatement after the time limited . [ Argued March 4th - decided May 5th , 1890. ] ACTION to recover an amount due for the construction of Huntley v . Holt . two buildings for the defendant 102 MAY , 1890 .
... filing of a plea in abatement after the time limited . [ Argued March 4th - decided May 5th , 1890. ] ACTION to recover an amount due for the construction of Huntley v . Holt . two buildings for the defendant 102 MAY , 1890 .
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... amount due under the contract . This defendant was not a proper party to that suit ; he had no interest in it . The fact that the plaintiff did not know it is of no consequence . The public land records disclosed that he had no interest ...
... amount due under the contract . This defendant was not a proper party to that suit ; he had no interest in it . The fact that the plaintiff did not know it is of no consequence . The public land records disclosed that he had no interest ...
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... amount of the judgment , give them a release of damages for the attachment made in the writ , and make return to the probate court that the defend- ant , Henry A. Deming , had given notice of the settlement of his administration account ...
... amount of the judgment , give them a release of damages for the attachment made in the writ , and make return to the probate court that the defend- ant , Henry A. Deming , had given notice of the settlement of his administration account ...
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Page 279 - ... the party of the first part shall pay to the party of the second part...
Page 57 - It must be conceded that there are such rights in every free government beyond the control of the State. A government which recognized no such rights, which held the lives, the liberty, and the property of its citizens subject at all times to the absolute disposition and unlimited control of even the most democratic depository of power, is after all but a despotism. It is true it is a despotism of the many, of the majority, if you choose to call it so, but it is none the less a despotism.
Page 492 - Each week's failure on the part of any person to comply with the provisions of the preceding section shall be a distinct offense, punishable with a fine not exceeding $5.
Page 144 - Either husband or wife may enter into any engagement or transaction with the other, or with any other person, respecting property, which either might if unmarried; subject, in transactions between themselves, to the general rules which control the actions of persons occupying confidential relations with each other, as defined by the title on trusts.
Page 265 - ... the plaintiff himself so far contributed to the misfortune by his own negligence or want of ordinary and common care and caution, that, but for such negligence or want of ordinary care and caution on his part, the misfortune would not have happened.
Page 107 - The general rule is well settled that the estoppel of a former judgment extends to every material matter within the issues which was expressly litigated and determined, and also to those matters which, although not expressly determined, are comprehended and involved in the thing expressly stated and decided, whether they were or were not actually litigated or considered.
Page 56 - The State may mould local institutions according to its views of policy or expediency; but local government is matter of absolute right; and the State cannot take it away. It would be the boldest mockery to speak of a city as possessing municipal liberty where the State not only shaped its government, but at discretion sent in its own agents to administer it; or to call that system one of constitutional freedom under which it should be equally admissible to allow the people full control of their...
Page 83 - The judicial power of the State shall be vested in a Supreme Court of Errors, a Superior Court, and such inferior courts as the General Assembly shall, from time to time, ordhin and establish ; the powers and jurisdiction of which courts shall be defined by law. SEC. 2. There shall be appointed in each county a sufficient number of justices of the peace, with such jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases as the General Assembly may prescribe.
Page 587 - Election is the choosing between two rights by a person who derives one of them under an instrument in which a clear intention appears that he should not enjoy both.
Page 156 - That there are euch trusts is well recognized; but it is equally well settled that trusts of this character are those technical and continuing trusts which are not recognized at law, but fall within the proper, peculiar, and exclusive jurisdiction of a court of equity.