Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit Courts of the United States for the Eighth Judicial Circuit, Volume 5Callaghan, 1884 |
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... DAMAGES . - The award of damages in such cases must not be excessive . They are only to be remunerative , — compensatory , — a just and fair amount for the injury sustained . NELSON , District Judge ( charging jury ) .— This suit is ...
... DAMAGES . - The award of damages in such cases must not be excessive . They are only to be remunerative , — compensatory , — a just and fair amount for the injury sustained . NELSON , District Judge ( charging jury ) .— This suit is ...
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... damages for breach of contract . The complaint alleges that during the months of February , March and April , 1881 , the defendant , who is a grain dealer residing at Columbus , Kansas , authorized the plaintiff , who is a commission ...
... damages for breach of contract . The complaint alleges that during the months of February , March and April , 1881 , the defendant , who is a grain dealer residing at Columbus , Kansas , authorized the plaintiff , who is a commission ...
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... damage . 5. SAME - GROS3 NEGLIGENCE . - Gross negligence is that want of care which a person habitually careless and negligent would exercise in business transactions . This was an action to recover damages by reason of an alleged ...
... damage . 5. SAME - GROS3 NEGLIGENCE . - Gross negligence is that want of care which a person habitually careless and negligent would exercise in business transactions . This was an action to recover damages by reason of an alleged ...
Page 105
... damages in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message . " 6-18-1879 . " Send the following message , subject to the above terms , which are agreed to : " To McGinnity , Adams ...
... damages in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after sending the message . " 6-18-1879 . " Send the following message , subject to the above terms , which are agreed to : " To McGinnity , Adams ...
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... damages by reason of the error in transmitting the dispatch . Tomlinson & Griffin and W. W. Guthrie , for plaintiffs . Everest & Waggener , for defendant . FOSTER , District Judge ( charging jury ) .— I desire to get before your minds ...
... damages by reason of the error in transmitting the dispatch . Tomlinson & Griffin and W. W. Guthrie , for plaintiffs . Everest & Waggener , for defendant . FOSTER , District Judge ( charging jury ) .— I desire to get before your minds ...
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Page 277 - Mining claims upon veins or lodes of quartz or other rock in place bearing gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, tin, copper, or other valuable deposits, heretofore located, shall be governed as to length along the vein or lode by the customs, regulations, and laws in force at the date of their location.
Page 308 - Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises...
Page 253 - ... that the plaintiff was a shareholder at the time of the transaction of which he complains or that his share thereafter devolved on him by operation of law...
Page 278 - ... along the vein or lode ; but no location of a mining claim shall be made until the discovery of the vein or lode within the limits of the claim located. No claim shall extend more than three hundred feet on each side of the middle of the vein at the surface...
Page 277 - ... application for a patent for such placer claim which does not include an application for the vein or lode claim shall be construed as a conclusive declaration that the claimant of the placer claim has no right of possession of the vein or lode claim ; but where the existence of a vein or lode in a placer claim is not known, a patent for the placer claim shall convey all valuable mineral and other deposits within the boundaries thereof.
Page 105 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery or non-delivery of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Page 127 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 210 - ... not known or used by others in this country, and not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country, before his invention or discovery thereof, and not in public use or on sale for more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned, may upon payment of the fees required by law, and other due proceedings had, obtain a patent therefor.
Page 151 - What is implied in a statute is as much a part of it as what is expressed.
Page 14 - Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a virtual acceptance binding the person who makes the promise.