Michigan Reports: Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Michigan, Volume 196Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Richard W. Cooper, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner Phelphs & Stevens, printers, 1918 |
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... owner of that property . I afterwards sold it and my wife joined in the deed . She was then living in this State . The check that I received from Donovan was returned to him about three months later . " The defendant also testified that ...
... owner of that property . I afterwards sold it and my wife joined in the deed . She was then living in this State . The check that I received from Donovan was returned to him about three months later . " The defendant also testified that ...
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... yet the decisions generally hold that where a broker , who at the time he makes his contract with the owner , knows of defects in the em- ployer's title , or who knows of facts sufficient to 1917 ] 13 CAIN v . MASURETTE .
... yet the decisions generally hold that where a broker , who at the time he makes his contract with the owner , knows of defects in the em- ployer's title , or who knows of facts sufficient to 1917 ] 13 CAIN v . MASURETTE .
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... owner of land has a legal right to sink wells thereon and use the water therefrom supplied by percola- tion in any way he chooses to use it and to allow it to flow away , even though he thereby diminishes the water in his neighbor's ...
... owner of land has a legal right to sink wells thereon and use the water therefrom supplied by percola- tion in any way he chooses to use it and to allow it to flow away , even though he thereby diminishes the water in his neighbor's ...
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... owners , upon the marsh and on higher land , contend , and offer testimony to support the contention , that as a result of the pumping operations wells in the vicinity have gone dry , flowing wells upon the marsh have ceased to flow or ...
... owners , upon the marsh and on higher land , contend , and offer testimony to support the contention , that as a result of the pumping operations wells in the vicinity have gone dry , flowing wells upon the marsh have ceased to flow or ...
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... owners of property began actions against the city , seeking to restrain the further taking of water from the wells , charging various resulting injury , tem- porary and permanent , to the land , occasioned by the taking of this large ...
... owners of property began actions against the city , seeking to restrain the further taking of water from the wells , charging various resulting injury , tem- porary and permanent , to the land , occasioned by the taking of this large ...
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Page 217 - No estate or interest in lands, other than leases for a term not exceeding one year...
Page 115 - ... 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 81 - ... but that it rather falls within that principle, which gives to the owner of the soil all that lies beneath his surface; that the land immediately below is his property, whether it is solid rock, or porous ground, or venous earth, or part soil, part water; that the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is there found to his own purposes at his free will and pleasure; and that if, in the exercise of such right, he intercepts or drains off the water collected from underground...
Page 303 - 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 153 - ... where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only, by certain and express words, and annexes to it a power of disposal. In that particular and special case, the devisees for life will not take an estate in fee, notwithstanding the distinct and naked gift of a power of disposition of the reversion.
Page 523 - In all criminal prosecutions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted ; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Page 450 - I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises ; that they are free of all incumbrances ; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said David to hold as aforesaid.
Page 495 - ... 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 of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor, and as against subsequent purchasers or mortgagees in good faith, unless the mortgage, or a true copy thereof, shall be filed...
Page 197 - cash value' wherever used in this act shall be held to mean the usual selling price at the place where the property to which the term is applied shall be at the time of the assessment, being the price which could be obtained therefor at private sale and not at forced or auction sale.
Page 494 - Upon this subject it has been provided that every mortgage, or conveyance intended to operate as a mortgage, of goods and chattels, which shall not be accompanied by an immediate delivery, and followed by an actual and continued change' of possession of the things mortgaged, shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor...