The South Western Reporter, Volume 128

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West Publishing Company, 1910
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.

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Page 180 - ... no bill shall contain more than one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title," — it is claimed, applies to both acts.
Page 335 - ... this defect, was thrown from the car and injured while he was in the discharge of his duty. He sued the plaintiff and recovered a judgment in one of the District Courts of Nebraska for the damages which he sustained by his fall, on the ground that it was caused by the negligence of the Stock Yards Company in the discharge of its duty of inspection to its employe. This judgment was subsequently affirmed by the Supreme Court of Nebraska, Union Stock Yards Co. v. Goodwin, 57 Nebraska, 138, and was...
Page 199 - If thereafter any suit is brought against the assured to enforce a claim for damages on account of an accident covered by this policy, the assured shall immediately forward to the company every summons or other process as soon as the same shall have been served on him, and the company will at its own cost, defend against such proceeding in the name and on behalf of the assured...
Page 272 - No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person...
Page 419 - ... (3) powers which he might have exercised for his own benefit, but not those which he might have exercised for some other person; ... (5) property which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him...
Page 364 - The State tax on property, exclusive of the tax necessary to pay the public debt, and of the taxes provided for the benefit of the public free schools, shall never exceed thirty-five cents on the one hundred dollars...
Page 199 - The assured shall not voluntarily assume any liability, nor shall the assured, without the written consent of the company previously given, Incur any expense or settle any claim, except at his own cost, or Interfere In any negotiation for settlement, or In any legal proceeding, except that the nssnred may provide at the time of the acddent such Immediate surgical relief as Is Imperative.
Page 157 - When it is said that the cause to be sought is the direct and proximate cause, it is not meant that the cause or agency which is nearest in time or place to the result is necessarily to be chosen: Freeman v.
Page 195 - An intentional perversion of truth for the purpose of Inducing another in reliance upon it to part with some valuable thing belonging to him or to surrender a legal right; a false representation of a matter of fact, whether by words or by conduct, by false or misleading allegations, or by concealment of that which should have been disclosed, which deceives and is intended to deceive another so that he shall act upon it to his legal injury...
Page 348 - February, 1863, the Plaintiff in error was convicted of the crime of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be executed on the third day of April, then next ensuing.

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