Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 164Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, James M. Reasoner, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Richard W. Cooper Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1911 |
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action affirmed agreed alleged amendment amount answer appeal Applebaum asked assigned attorney authority bill bonds building cause charge Circuit Judge claim common Company complainant condition consideration considered Constitution construction contract corporation costs counsel court damages Decided decree deed defendant defendant's Detroit directed duty effect election entered entitled error evidence executed fact filed further give given granted ground held injury interest judgment jury land manufacture March matter ment Mich Michigan MOORE mortgage motion negligence notice opinion paid parties person plaintiff possession present proceedings purchase question Railway reason received record recover referred refused relation respondent reversed rule salt secured statute street Submitted suit testified testimony tion trial trustees verdict village wife wires witness writ
Popular passages
Page 126 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 140 - This policy shall be canceled at any time at the request of the insured ; or by the company by giving five days' notice of such cancellation. If this policy shall be canceled as hereinbefore provided, or become void or cease, the premium having been actually paid, the unearned portion shall be returned on surrender of this policy or last renewal, this company retaining the customary short rate; except that when this policy is canceled by this company by giving notice it shall retain only the pro...
Page 152 - 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 111 - November, 1912; the same day he filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and was adjudicated a bankrupt on the 6th day of the same month.
Page 255 - ... negligence, either as a matter of law or as a matter of fact. It...
Page 664 - If any execution, either at law or in equity, shall have been issued against the property or effects of the company, and if there cannot be found sufficient whereon to levy such execution, then such execution may be issued against any of the shareholders to the extent of their shares respectively in the capital of the company not then paid up...
Page 18 - And it is hereby agreed that if any rent shall be due and unpaid, or if default shall be made in any of the covenants herein contained, then it shall be lawful for the said party of the first part to re-enter the said premises and to remove all persons therefrom.
Page 387 - Under such general laws, the electors of each city and village shall have power and authority to frame, adopt and amend its charter...
Page 346 - ... the court erred in refusing to direct a verdict for the defendant below.
Page 302 - If any general rule can be laid down, in the present state of authority, it is that a corporation will be looked upon as a legal entity as a general rule, and until sufficient reason to the contrary appears; but, when the notion of legal entity is used to defeat public convenience, justify wrong, protect fraud, or defend crime, the law will regard the corporation as an association of persons.