Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Volume 173 |
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... defendant the balance due , which defendant had refused to accept , that the pur- chaser of the 80 acres had notice of complainant's equity , and pray- ing for specific performance , and an accounting for timber cut , and general relief ...
... defendant the balance due , which defendant had refused to accept , that the pur- chaser of the 80 acres had notice of complainant's equity , and pray- ing for specific performance , and an accounting for timber cut , and general relief ...
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... defendant's imme- diate predecessor in title , that company took also , in 1895 , a lease of complainants ' property from its then owner , so that , from that time until shortly before this bill was filed , the property on both sides of ...
... defendant's imme- diate predecessor in title , that company took also , in 1895 , a lease of complainants ' property from its then owner , so that , from that time until shortly before this bill was filed , the property on both sides of ...
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... defendant's property at that time , nor can the recitals of the quitclaim bind the complainants or their predecessors who were strangers to it . Now complainants ' contention is that Judson's deed to Norris and Hunt , being first in ...
... defendant's property at that time , nor can the recitals of the quitclaim bind the complainants or their predecessors who were strangers to it . Now complainants ' contention is that Judson's deed to Norris and Hunt , being first in ...
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... defendant's on St. Louis , and which are separated by this same alley , complainants hold under deeds as early as 1840 describing their lot as running south from St. Anthony street 82 feet , and bounded on the south by the land of ...
... defendant's on St. Louis , and which are separated by this same alley , complainants hold under deeds as early as 1840 describing their lot as running south from St. Anthony street 82 feet , and bounded on the south by the land of ...
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... defendant there acted , was without power to authorize the erection of the warehouse on the part of the street , yet the obstruction was permanent , the defendant able to answer , and complainant had an adequate remedy at law . Just why ...
... defendant there acted , was without power to authorize the erection of the warehouse on the part of the street , yet the obstruction was permanent , the defendant able to answer , and complainant had an adequate remedy at law . Just why ...
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Page 405 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another court...
Page 470 - The first clause of the title of the act is, 'An act to provide for the regulation of the traffic in alcoholic liquors by establishing local option.
Page 244 - The power and authority of regulating railroad freights and passenger tariffs, preventing unjust discriminations, and requiring reasonable and just rates of freight and passenger tariffs, are hereby conferred upon the General Assembly, whose duty it shall be to pass laws, from time to time, to regulate freight and passenger tariffs, to prohibit unjust discriminations on the various railroads .of this State, and to prohibit said roads from charging other than just and reasonable rates, and enforce...
Page 341 - Whatever the law may be elsewhere, it must be regarded as the settled law of this State, that an agreement either by parol or in writing to pay a debt out of a designated fund does not give an equitable lien upon the fund or operate as an equitable assignment thereof.
Page 95 - In this class of cases we think the rule of action which should govern the civil courts, founded in a broad and sound view of the relations of church and state under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of judicial authority, is that, whenever the questions of discipline, or of faith, or ecclesiastical rule, custom, or law have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final,...
Page 94 - ... 3. The third is where the religious congregation or ecclesiastical body holding the property is but a subordinate member of some general church organization in which there are superior ecclesiastical tribunals with a general and ultimate power of control more or less complete, in some supreme judi.catory over the whole membership of that general organization.
Page 63 - Would the owner of the property, in an action of ejectment brought by the adverse party, founded upon the deed, be required to offer evidence to defeat a recovery. If such proof would be necessary, the cloud would exist; if the proof would be unnecessary, no shade would be cast by the presence of the deed.
Page 324 - Municipal and other corporations and Individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use shall make just compensation for property taken, injured or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury or destruction.
Page 91 - The General Assembly Is the highest court of this church, and represents in one body all the particular churches thereof. It bears the title of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and constitutes the bond of union, peace, correspondence and mutual confidence among all its churches and courts.
Page 582 - Every State owes protection to its own citizens; and, when nonresidents deal with them, it is a legitimate and just exercise of authority to hold and appropriate any property owned by such non-residents to satisfy the claims of its citizens.