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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... TRIAL - EVIDENCE - HarmleSS ERROR . The exclusion of the record of plaintiff's conviction and sentence on a warrant issued for the offense of being a disorderly person , is harmless error where it would have been immaterial if admitted ...
... TRIAL - EVIDENCE - HarmleSS ERROR . The exclusion of the record of plaintiff's conviction and sentence on a warrant issued for the offense of being a disorderly person , is harmless error where it would have been immaterial if admitted ...
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... trial was well under way defendant asked permission to amend his plea and notice . After some discussion the court granted permission on con- dition of the payment of the plaintiff's taxable costs ( which were conceded to be $ 30 ) ...
... trial was well under way defendant asked permission to amend his plea and notice . After some discussion the court granted permission on con- dition of the payment of the plaintiff's taxable costs ( which were conceded to be $ 30 ) ...
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... trial in the circuit court , and whose testimony in the probate court was offered on such trial by the proponents and , on objection by contestants , was withdrawn , was not reversible error , there being no issue as to the execution of ...
... trial in the circuit court , and whose testimony in the probate court was offered on such trial by the proponents and , on objection by contestants , was withdrawn , was not reversible error , there being no issue as to the execution of ...
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... trial ? She was out of the State . She had testified in the probate court . That testimony was offered by proponents at the trial , but , being objected to by contestants , was withdrawn . Under our holding in Abbott v . Abbott , 41 ...
... trial ? She was out of the State . She had testified in the probate court . That testimony was offered by proponents at the trial , but , being objected to by contestants , was withdrawn . Under our holding in Abbott v . Abbott , 41 ...
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... trial that evidence existed upon this subject , and having asked the court to so charge , they cannot now be per- mitted to allege that no such evidence existed . We are of opinion that the portion of the charge complained of , in view ...
... trial that evidence existed upon this subject , and having asked the court to so charge , they cannot now be per- mitted to allege that no such evidence existed . We are of opinion that the portion of the charge complained of , in view ...
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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.
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