The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 152West Publishing Company, 1913 |
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Page 146
... charge authorizing said committee " to employ an attorney to assist them in matters connected with the water company ... charge the same fee that the attorneys for the water company charged it for their services in the matter . The ...
... charge authorizing said committee " to employ an attorney to assist them in matters connected with the water company ... charge the same fee that the attorneys for the water company charged it for their services in the matter . The ...
Page 209
... charge tract , either when considered alone or in No. 1 , requested by plaintiffs , was erroneous connection with the evidence of prior and in that it failed to furnish the jury any guide contemporaneous statements made by the to ...
... charge tract , either when considered alone or in No. 1 , requested by plaintiffs , was erroneous connection with the evidence of prior and in that it failed to furnish the jury any guide contemporaneous statements made by the to ...
Page 224
... charge is clearly erroneous . While ap- pellee charged fraud , it appears from his al- legations as a whole and from the undis- puted evidence that he was not seeking a re- scission of the contract of exchange , but only sought to ...
... charge is clearly erroneous . While ap- pellee charged fraud , it appears from his al- legations as a whole and from the undis- puted evidence that he was not seeking a re- scission of the contract of exchange , but only sought to ...
Page 226
... charge alone is con- sidered , it leaves the impression that the case is one in which spontaneous combus- tion has been alleged to have taken place in the grass on the right of way . It provides that , if a fire is set out by reason of ...
... charge alone is con- sidered , it leaves the impression that the case is one in which spontaneous combus- tion has been alleged to have taken place in the grass on the right of way . It provides that , if a fire is set out by reason of ...
Page 227
... charge . | Under the charge of the court , if the jury found that appellant was not negligent in permitting the grass to accumulate on the right of way , a verdict must be returned for appellant . Under this special charge , the [ 4 ] A ...
... charge . | Under the charge of the court , if the jury found that appellant was not negligent in permitting the grass to accumulate on the right of way , a verdict must be returned for appellant . Under this special charge , the [ 4 ] A ...
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Page 187 - Columbia and any of the states or territories and any foreign nation or nations shall be liable in damages to any person suffering injury while he is employed by such carrier in such commerce, or in case of the death of such employee to his or her personal representative...
Page 352 - And it was resolved by them, that for the sure and true interpretation of all statutes in general (be they penal or beneficial, restrictive or enlarging of the common law,) four things are to be discerned and considered— 1st. What was the common law before the making of the Act. 2nd. What was the mischief and defect for which the common law did not provide. 3rd. What remedy the Parliament hath resolved and appointed to cure the disease of the commonwealth. And, 4th. The true reason of the remedy...
Page 30 - That must always rest upon some difference which bears a reasonable and just relation to the act in respect to which the classification is proposed, and can never be made arbitrarily and without any such basis.
Page 318 - When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress,' or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished...
Page 257 - But, on the other hand, if these special circumstances were wholly unknown to the party breaking the contract, he, at the most, could only be supposed to have had in his contemplation the amount of injury which would arise generally, and in the great multitude of cases not affected by any special circumstances, from such a breach of contract. For had the special circumstances been known, the parties might have specially provided for the breach of contract by special terms as to the damages in that...
Page 357 - goodwill may be properly enough described to be the advantage or benefit which is acquired by an establishment beyond the mere value of the capital stock, funds or property employed therein, in consequence of the general public patronage and encouragement which it receives from constant or habitual customers, on account of its local position, or common celebrity, or reputation for skill or affluence, or punctuality, or from other accidental circumstances or necessities, or even from ancient partialities...
Page 352 - The true reason of the remedy; and then the office of all the judges is always to make such construction as shall suppress the mischief, and advance the remedy, and to suppress subtle inventions and evasions for continuance of the mischief, and pro private commodo, and to add force and life to the cure and remedy, according to the true intent of the makers of the Act, pro bono publico.
Page 187 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves or other equipment.
Page 257 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, 1. e., 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 the breach of it...
Page 447 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...