Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, Volume 177State of Iowa, 1917 |
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Page 12 - This company shall not be liable under this policy for a greater proportion of any loss on the described property, or for loss by and expense of removal from premises endangered by fire, than the amount hereby insured shall bear to the whole insurance, whether valid or not, or by solvent or insolvent insurers, covering such property...
Page 390 - In any indictment for murder or manslaughter, or for being an accessory to any murder or manslaughter, it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which, or the means by which, the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient in any indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought, kill and murder the deceased, and it shall be sufficient in any indictment for manslaughter to charge that the defendant did feloniously...
Page 119 - If the conditional element is Incorporated into the description of or into the gift to the remainderman, then the remainder is contingent; but if, after words giving a vested Interest, a clause is added divesting it, the remainder is vested.
Page 396 - The reservation of the powers of the initiative and referendum in this article shall not deprive the legislature of the right to repeal any law, propose or pass any measure, which may be consistent with the constitution of the State and the Constitution of the United States.
Page 733 - When a corporation, company, or individual has, for the transaction of any business, an office or agency in any county other than that in which the principal resides, service may be made on any agent or clerk employed in such office or agency, in all actions growing out of or connected with the business of that office or agency.
Page 201 - Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust, or a person expressly authorized by statute, may sue, without joining with him the person for whose benefit the action is prosecuted.
Page 215 - ... upon the death of both husband and wife the children may continue to possess and occupy the whole homestead until the youngest child becomes of age.
Page 34 - Equity regards the property of a corporation as held in trust for the payment of the debts of the corporation, and recognizes the right of creditors to pursue it into whosesoever possession it may be transferred, unless it has passed into the hands of a bona fide purchaser...
Page 393 - The act is not in conflict with the section of the bill of rights providing that ' in criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right ... to demand the nature and cause of the accusation.
Page 434 - The granting of a new trial places the parties in the same position as if no trial had been had. All the testimony must be produced anew, and the former verdict cannot be used or referred to, either in evidence or in argument, or be pleaded in bar of any conviction which might have been had under the indictment.