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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... commission of the plaintiff's offense did not in any de- gree contribute to produce the injury of which he complains . " In Baldwin v . Barney , 12 R. Isl . , 392 , where it was held that a person illegally traveling on Sunday along a ...
... commission of the plaintiff's offense did not in any de- gree contribute to produce the injury of which he complains . " In Baldwin v . Barney , 12 R. Isl . , 392 , where it was held that a person illegally traveling on Sunday along a ...
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... commission and empowered it to order the carrying of the tracks over the street and to order the railroad companies or either of them to lay out and maintain a new line or lines of railway for a distance not exceeding half a mile on ...
... commission and empowered it to order the carrying of the tracks over the street and to order the railroad companies or either of them to lay out and maintain a new line or lines of railway for a distance not exceeding half a mile on ...
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... commission applied to the Superior Court for a mandamus to com- pel it to do so . On the coming in of the alternative writ the railroad company appeared and filed a motion that the matter be removed to the United States Circuit Court ...
... commission applied to the Superior Court for a mandamus to com- pel it to do so . On the coming in of the alternative writ the railroad company appeared and filed a motion that the matter be removed to the United States Circuit Court ...
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... commission should refuse to act , others might be appointed , and directed in what way ; also that a majority might act . A member de- clining to act another person was appointed in his place . Held that the court would presume that he ...
... commission should refuse to act , others might be appointed , and directed in what way ; also that a majority might act . A member de- clining to act another person was appointed in his place . Held that the court would presume that he ...
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... commission might apply to any court of competent juris- diction for aid in the enforcement of its orders . These res- olutions were amended in 1885 , so as to authorize the commission to order the carrying of the tracks of the rail ...
... commission might apply to any court of competent juris- diction for aid in the enforcement of its orders . These res- olutions were amended in 1885 , so as to authorize the commission to order the carrying of the tracks of the rail ...
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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.