The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 117Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1908 |
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... plaintiff . Plaintiff also claimed that defendant had constructed a dam and con- stantly allowed it to collect large quantities of mud , filth and debris , and that such dam , within the last year prior to this suit , had frequently ...
... plaintiff . Plaintiff also claimed that defendant had constructed a dam and con- stantly allowed it to collect large quantities of mud , filth and debris , and that such dam , within the last year prior to this suit , had frequently ...
Page 65
... plaintiff's complaint more than ten years before plaintiff's suit was commenced , and defendant has used the water in substantially the same manner continuously since that time , with the knowl- edge of the plaintiff , and for this ...
... plaintiff's complaint more than ten years before plaintiff's suit was commenced , and defendant has used the water in substantially the same manner continuously since that time , with the knowl- edge of the plaintiff , and for this ...
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... plaintiff , and , this second attempt proving equally fruitless , the assessor , as required by law , made out a list of the property as best he could , and put the same on his roll . Plaintiff failing to pay the tax thus assessed , the ...
... plaintiff , and , this second attempt proving equally fruitless , the assessor , as required by law , made out a list of the property as best he could , and put the same on his roll . Plaintiff failing to pay the tax thus assessed , the ...
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... plaintiff's immediate use . It is averred in the complaint that plaintiff is seventy - seven years old , is with- out any means 141 of subsistence , and , by reason of her age and physical condition , is unable to maintain herself by ...
... plaintiff's immediate use . It is averred in the complaint that plaintiff is seventy - seven years old , is with- out any means 141 of subsistence , and , by reason of her age and physical condition , is unable to maintain herself by ...
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... plaintiff appeals . Several grounds are urged for a reversal , only one of which is of sufficient importance to merit particular consideration . It is insisted that the court erred in disallowing the challenge of plaintiff to a juror ...
... plaintiff appeals . Several grounds are urged for a reversal , only one of which is of sufficient importance to merit particular consideration . It is insisted that the court erred in disallowing the challenge of plaintiff to a juror ...
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Page 282 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of a breach of it.
Page 600 - ... that all the instructors and teachers in the college shall take pains to instil into the minds of the scholars, the purest principles of morality, so that, on their entrance into active life, they may, from inclination and habit, evince benevolence towards their fellow-creatures, and a love of truth, sobriety, and industry, adopting at the same time such religious tenets as their matured reason may enable them to prefer.
Page 581 - No action shall lie against the company as respects any loss under this policy, unless it shall be brought by the assured himself to reimburse him for loss actually sustained and paid by him In satisfaction of a Judgment within siity days from the date of such Judgment and after trial of the Issue.
Page 851 - No county shall have more than one-third of all the senators; and no two counties or the territory thereof as now organized, which are adjoining counties, or which are separated only by public waters, shall have more than one-half of all the senators.
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Page 276 - ... the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury, which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Page 599 - I enjoin and require that no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor, within the premises appropriated to the purposes of the said College.
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