Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 16Michigan. Supreme Court, George C. Gibbs, Randolph Manning, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, William Jennison, Elijah W. Meddaugh, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, Hovey K. Clarke, John Adams Brooks, William Dudley Fuller, James M. Reasoner, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, Richard W. Cooper Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1868 |
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... amount due upon the judgment . Error to Livingston Circuit . Heard July 9th . Decided July 11th . This was an action of ejectment brought to recover the possession of certain lands in Hamburg , Livingston County . The defendant set up a ...
... amount due upon the judgment . Error to Livingston Circuit . Heard July 9th . Decided July 11th . This was an action of ejectment brought to recover the possession of certain lands in Hamburg , Livingston County . The defendant set up a ...
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... amount due are jurisdictional facts , without which there is no authority to file a transcript . The original transcripts were not offered in evidence in this case , but only the docket entry thereof in the office of the clerk of the ...
... amount due are jurisdictional facts , without which there is no authority to file a transcript . The original transcripts were not offered in evidence in this case , but only the docket entry thereof in the office of the clerk of the ...
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... amount of taxes stated in the column of state , county and township taxes was too much ( according to the valuation and amount to be raised ) by just the amount of a one mill tax on the valuation of the tracts . Held , that the jury ...
... amount of taxes stated in the column of state , county and township taxes was too much ( according to the valuation and amount to be raised ) by just the amount of a one mill tax on the valuation of the tracts . Held , that the jury ...
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... amount voted at the annual township meeting , viz . , $ 200 . This does not tend to show that this was the only money for township charges that the Supervisor was lawfully re- quired to levy . It does not overthrow the statutory pre ...
... amount voted at the annual township meeting , viz . , $ 200 . This does not tend to show that this was the only money for township charges that the Supervisor was lawfully re- quired to levy . It does not overthrow the statutory pre ...
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... amount in ex- cess of the tax it is legally called upon to bear . - 4 Mich . 157 ; 1 Mass . 181 ; 10 Id . 115 ; 13 Id . 272 ; 15 Id . 144 ; 19 Ohio , 324 ; Blackwell on tax titles , p . 158-166 . 3. The mill tax is required by law to be ...
... amount in ex- cess of the tax it is legally called upon to bear . - 4 Mich . 157 ; 1 Mass . 181 ; 10 Id . 115 ; 13 Id . 272 ; 15 Id . 144 ; 19 Ohio , 324 ; Blackwell on tax titles , p . 158-166 . 3. The mill tax is required by law to be ...
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Page 190 - In a civil court the death of a human being cannot be complained of as an Injury...
Page 433 - ... a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings; 16. Words and phrases must be construed according to the context and the approved usage of the language; but technical words and phrases, and such others as may have acquired a peculiar and appropriate meaning in law, must be construed according to such peculiar and appropriate meaning; 17.
Page 194 - Action the Jury may give such Damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such Death to the Parties respectively for whom and for whose Benefit such Action shall be brought...
Page 269 - The State shall not be a party to, or interested in, any work of internal improvement, nor engaged in carrying on any such work, except in the expenditure of grants to the State of land or other property...
Page 194 - ... whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued...
Page 488 - No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title...
Page 193 - Whereas no action at law is now maintainable against a person who by his wrongful act, neglect, or default may have caused the death of another person, and it is oftentimes right and expedient that the wrongdoer in such case should be answerable in damages for the injury so caused by him...
Page 567 - ... within the meaning of the statute. It is not necessary that the defendant should controvert or dispute the claim. It is sufficient that he does not satisfy it. It might be that he could not truthfully dispute it, and yet, if from inability, or, mayhap, from indisposition, he fails to satisfy it, it cannot be that because the claim is not controverted the Federal...
Page 111 - CO. their part, in regard to the manner of delivery and entry of parcels, and the information to be given, to him of their contents, the rates of freight, and the like; as, for example, that he will not be responsible for goods above the value of a certain sum, unless they are entered as such, and paid for accordingly.
Page 194 - That every such action shall be for the benefit of the wife, husband, parent and child of the person whose death shall have been so caused, and shall be brought by and in the name of the executor or administrator of the person deceased...