The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 181West Publishing Company, 1916 |
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... plaintiff and directed the plaintiff to get upon a transfer train which was then in the yards of the defendant company and ride to the defendant's storehouse located in another portion of the yards of the defendant company and go to ...
... plaintiff and directed the plaintiff to get upon a transfer train which was then in the yards of the defendant company and ride to the defendant's storehouse located in another portion of the yards of the defendant company and go to ...
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... plaintiff received the injuries sued for in | the case . The negligent acts charged in the " And if the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff in the exercise of ordinary care would have known that said pile of ties was so ...
... plaintiff received the injuries sued for in | the case . The negligent acts charged in the " And if the jury find from the evidence that the plaintiff in the exercise of ordinary care would have known that said pile of ties was so ...
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... plaintiff was doing at the time we should go further we take next . of his injury , as mentioned in the evidence , then the fact that the plaintiff did said work on said date under said circumstances will not of itself prevent a ...
... plaintiff was doing at the time we should go further we take next . of his injury , as mentioned in the evidence , then the fact that the plaintiff did said work on said date under said circumstances will not of itself prevent a ...
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... plaintiff , dated , respectively , August 27 , there more than once or twice thereafter , and 1908 , and March 15 , 1907 , wherein they quit- that was in November , 1903. Plaintiff closed . claimed to plaintiff the land in controversy ...
... plaintiff , dated , respectively , August 27 , there more than once or twice thereafter , and 1908 , and March 15 , 1907 , wherein they quit- that was in November , 1903. Plaintiff closed . claimed to plaintiff the land in controversy ...
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... plaintiff was guilty of contribu- tory negligence , it is error to instruct the jury that , under the law , the plaintiff is en- titled to recover if it finds he was not guilty of contributory negligence ; and that the Courts of Appeals ...
... plaintiff was guilty of contribu- tory negligence , it is error to instruct the jury that , under the law , the plaintiff is en- titled to recover if it finds he was not guilty of contributory negligence ; and that the Courts of Appeals ...
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Page 377 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
Page 347 - And be it further enacted, that every will shall be construed, with reference to the real estate and personal estate comprised in it, to speak and take effect as if it had been executed immediately before the death of the testator, unless a contrary intention shall appear by the will.
Page 112 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme ; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, "anything in the Constitution or laws of any State, to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 105 - No corporation shall engage in any business other than that expressly authorized in its charter, nor shall it take or hold any real estate except such as may be necessary and proper for its legitimate business.
Page 214 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 388 - ... claimed as the subject of disposition, and to the circumstances of the testator and of his family and affairs; for the purpose of enabling the court to identify the person or thing intended by the testator...
Page 214 - The jurisdiction of the courts of the United States under this Act shall be concurrent with that of the courts of the several States, and no case arising under this Act and brought in any state court of competent jurisdiction shall be removed to any court of the United States.
Page 377 - Columbia and any of the states or territories and any foreign nation or nations shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or in case of the death of such employee to his or her personal representative...
Page 377 - The contention to the contrary proceeds upon the assumption that interstate commerce by railroad can be separated into its several elements, and the nature of each determined regardless of its relation to others or to the business as a whole. But this is an erroneous assumption. The true test always is: Is the work in question a part of the interstate commerce in which the carrier is engaged...
Page 18 - We may lay it down as a broad general principle that wherever one of two innocent persons must suffer by the acts of a third, he who has enabled such third person to occasion the loss must sustain it