Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of the City of New York [1871-1892], Volume 57 |
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... plaintiff is heir of an ancestor , it is necessary to show how he is heir . It is not denied that , in certain cases , such a rule is to be applied . In a case , however , where the plaintiff claims not a particular estate , or a cause ...
... plaintiff is heir of an ancestor , it is necessary to show how he is heir . It is not denied that , in certain cases , such a rule is to be applied . In a case , however , where the plaintiff claims not a particular estate , or a cause ...
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... plaintiff was bound to show that the release had been obtained by fraud , and also , that the plaintiff had returned or offered to return the money and property received under the release . The counsel for plaintiff admitted that no ...
... plaintiff was bound to show that the release had been obtained by fraud , and also , that the plaintiff had returned or offered to return the money and property received under the release . The counsel for plaintiff admitted that no ...
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... plaintiff was error . III . The release is void , and the plaintiff cannot be required as a condition precedent to giving evidence tending to show the nullity of the release , to return to defendant what was already the plaintiff's ...
... plaintiff was error . III . The release is void , and the plaintiff cannot be required as a condition precedent to giving evidence tending to show the nullity of the release , to return to defendant what was already the plaintiff's ...
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... plaintiff at the trial . The action was brought to recover damages for false and fraudulent representations concerning a certain mining property , by means of which the defendant had obtained from the plaintiff several sums of money and ...
... plaintiff at the trial . The action was brought to recover damages for false and fraudulent representations concerning a certain mining property , by means of which the defendant had obtained from the plaintiff several sums of money and ...
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... plaintiff's claim for salary alleged to be due to him as a discharged employee . The action was brought for services ... plaintiff and defendant , whereby the plaintiff entered into the em- ployment of the defendant , was an agreement ...
... plaintiff's claim for salary alleged to be due to him as a discharged employee . The action was brought for services ... plaintiff and defendant , whereby the plaintiff entered into the em- ployment of the defendant , was an agreement ...
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Page 11 - 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. A person, with whom or in whose name, a contract is made for the benefit of another, is a trustee of an express trust, within the meaning of this section.
Page 434 - ... an error, in the admission or exclusion of evidence, or in any other ruling or direction of the judge, upon the trial, may, in the discretion of the court which reviews it. be disregarded, if that court is of opinion, that substantial justice does not require that a new trial should be granted.
Page 52 - Bronx in said city, in the office of the register of the city and county of New York.
Page 6 - But it must appear, upon the face of the complaint, that all the causes of action, so united, belong to one of the foregoing subdivisions of this section...
Page 481 - ... it shall be the duty of the prothonotary of any court of record within this commonwealth, on the application of any person being the original holder [or assignee of such holder] of a note, bond, or other instrument of writing in which judgment is confessed, or containing a warrant for an attorney at law or other person to confess judgment, to enter judgment against the person or persons who executed the same for the amount which, from the face of the instrument, may appear to be due...
Page 515 - A person seized of an estate in remainder or reversion, may maintain an action founded upon an injury done to the inheritance, notwithstanding any intervening estate for life or for years.
Page 102 - Court, that taking a note, either of the debtor or of a third person, for a pre-existing debt, is no payment, unless it be expressly agreed to take the note as payment, and to run the risk of its being paid; or unless the creditor parts with the note, or is guilty of laches in not presenting it for payment in due time.
Page 523 - The mistake which will warrant a court of equity to reform a contract in writing must be one made by both parties to the agreement, so that the intentions of neither are expressed in it ; or it must be the mistake of one party, by which his intentions have failed of correct expression, and there must be fraud in the other party in taking advantage of that mistake and obtaining a contract with the knowledge that the one dealing with him is in error in regard to what are its terms.
Page 487 - The fact that the Court had jurisdiction of the subject matter, and of the person of the defendant, is sufficient to establish the validity of the judgment until reversed or set aside.
Page 57 - IT were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another ; therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause, and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree.