The New York Supplement, Volume 80West Publishing Company, 1903 "Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies) |
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... negligence of the railroad company in communicating the fire may be proved wholly by circumstantial evidence , and there need not necessarily be direct proof of any particular act or omission upon which the law predicates negligence ...
... negligence of the railroad company in communicating the fire may be proved wholly by circumstantial evidence , and there need not necessarily be direct proof of any particular act or omission upon which the law predicates negligence ...
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... negligence of the defendant . The deceased was drowned in the St. Lawrence river , near Alexandria Bay , Jefferson county , N. Y. , January 27 , 1899 , by breaking through the ice at a place where defendant had been taking ice to store ...
... negligence of the defendant . The deceased was drowned in the St. Lawrence river , near Alexandria Bay , Jefferson county , N. Y. , January 27 , 1899 , by breaking through the ice at a place where defendant had been taking ice to store ...
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... negligent , but that such negligence was the cause of the accident and death ; otherwise , they were not en- titled to recover . We think it must be assumed , for the purposes of this appeal , that the deceased had full knowledge of the ...
... negligent , but that such negligence was the cause of the accident and death ; otherwise , they were not en- titled to recover . We think it must be assumed , for the purposes of this appeal , that the deceased had full knowledge of the ...
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... negligent he may have been in attempting to get the water , his drowning would in no way have been the result of the defendant's neglect to guard the place . It must be remembered that the defendant's negligence did not consist in ...
... negligent he may have been in attempting to get the water , his drowning would in no way have been the result of the defendant's neglect to guard the place . It must be remembered that the defendant's negligence did not consist in ...
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... NEGLIGENCE OF PARENTS . Parents of a child 61⁄2 years of age were not guilty of negligence in permitting the child to accompany his brother , 12 years of age , well acquainted with the city , on a visit to their aunt , in a different ...
... NEGLIGENCE OF PARENTS . Parents of a child 61⁄2 years of age were not guilty of negligence in permitting the child to accompany his brother , 12 years of age , well acquainted with the city , on a visit to their aunt , in a different ...
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Page 495 - Value is any consideration sufficient to support a simple contract. An antecedent or pre-existing debt constitutes value ; and is deemed such whether the instrument is payable on demand or at a future time.
Page 738 - A person duly authorized to practice physic or surgery, or a professional or registered nurse, shall not be allowed to disclose any information which he acquired in attending a patient in a professional capacity, and which was necessary to enable him to act in that capacity...
Page 496 - A holder, in due course holds the instrument free from any defect of title of prior parties, and free from defenses available to prior parties among themselves, and may enforce payment of the instrument for the full amount thereof against all parties liable thereon.
Page 575 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of New York ; and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of according to the best of my ability.
Page 496 - The title of a person who negotiates an instrument is defective within the meaning of this act when he obtained the instrument, or any signature thereto, by fraud, duress or force and fear or other unlawful means, or for an illegal consideration or when he negotiates it in breach of faith, or under such circumstances as amount to a fraud.
Page 93 - All other officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, and all officers whose offices may hereafter be created by law, shall be elected by the people, or appointed, as the Legislature may direct.
Page 7 - When, in consequence of a valid limitation of an expectant estate, there is a suspension of the power of alienation, or of the ownership, during the continuance of which the rents and profits are undisposed of, and no valid direction for their accumulation is given, such rents and profits shall belong to the persons presumptively entitled to the next eventual estate.
Page 476 - ... shall be deemed a transfer taxable under the provisions of this chapter in the same manner as though the property to which such appointment relates belonged absolutely to the donee of such power and had been bequeathed or devised by such donee by will...
Page 263 - ... that honorably discharged soldiers and sailors from the army and navy of the United States in the late civil war, who are citizens and residents of this State, shall be entitled to preference in appointment and promotion, without regard to their standing on any list from which such appointment or promotion may be made. Laws shall be made to provide for the enforcement of this section.
Page 398 - Every mortgage or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage of goods and chattels which shall hereafter be made which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery and followed by an actual and continued change of possession...