Colorado Reports, Volume 37Banks & Brothers, 1907 |
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15 Colo Affirmed alleged amount appellant appellee applied Arapahoe County assessment attorney authority bank by-laws cause of action certificate certificates of deposit CHIEF JUSTICE GABBERT city and county claim Colorado complaint constitution contract corporation counsel county of Denver county treasurer Cripple Creek damages deceased decree defendant company defendant in error defendant's delivered the opinion deposit district court ditch duty employees entitled evidence fact fendant filed habeas corpus held holder instruction interest irrigation issue Joseph Gibbons Judge judgment jurisdiction jury JUSTICE STEELE land Leadville liability lien ment Messrs Mills mining negligence notice owner paid parties payment person plaintiff in error plat prerogative writs proceedings purchaser purpose question reason received res judicata Reversed rule Stats statute stockholders suit supra supreme court surety Teller County testimony thereof tiff tion treasurer trial verdict warrants writ of error
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Page 227 - Words in a statute ought not to have a retrospective operation, unless they are so clear, strong, and imperative, that no other meaning can be annexed to them, or unless the intention of the legislature cannot be otherwise satisfied.
Page 450 - The supreme court, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, shall have appellate jurisdiction only, which shall be co-extensive with the State, and shall have a general superintending control over all inferior courts, under such regulations and limitations as may be prescribed by law.
Page 386 - A charity, in a legal sense, may be more fully defined as a gift to be applied, consistently with existing laws, for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, either by bringing their...
Page 291 - That any person or persons having in charge or trust, as administrators, executors, or trustees, any legacies or distributive shares arising from personal property, where the whole amount of such personal property as aforesaid shall exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars in actual value, passing, after the passage of this act.
Page 153 - ... Every action must be prosecuted in the name of the real party in interest, except that an executor or administrator, a trustee of an express trust, or a person expressly authorized by statute, may sue, without joining with him the person for whose benefit the action is prosecuted. A person with whom or in whose name a contract is made for the benefit of another is a trustee of an express trust, within the meaning of this section.
Page 618 - ... or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Page 286 - After the passage of this act all property which shall pass by will or by the intestate laws of this state...
Page 91 - In all other cases, the action shall be tried in the county in which the parties or any of them shall reside at the commencement of the action...
Page 502 - But where the second action between the same parties is upon a different claim or demand, the judgment in the prior action operates as an estoppel only as to those matters in issue or points controverted, upon the determination of which the finding or verdict was rendered.
Page 465 - Bench, that illegitimate and unconstitutional practices get their first footing by silent approaches and slight deviations from legal modes of legal procedure. Boyd v. United States, 116 US 616, 635. We shall do well to heed the warnings of that great jurist.