The New York Supplement, Volume 136

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West Publishing Company, 1912
"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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Page 12 - ... All city, town and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof, as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose.
Page 501 - ... 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 457 - Ed. 1868), at page 170 states that "good will 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...
Page 790 - ... no laborer, workman or mechanic in the employ of the contractor, sub-contractor or other person doing or contracting to do the whole or a part of the work contemplated by the contract shall be permitted or required to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood or danger to life or property.
Page 466 - Such parts of the common law, and of the acts of the Legislature of the colony of New York, as together did form the law of the said colony...
Page 790 - Eight hours shall constitute a legal day's work for all classes of employees In this state except those engaged In farm and domestic service unless otherwise provided by law.
Page 700 - Bronx in said city, in the office of the register of the city and county of New York.
Page 372 - Where a right exists, but a demand is necessary to entitle a person to maintain an action, the time, within which the action must be commenced, must be computed from the time, when the right to make the demand is complete; except in one of the following cases: 1.
Page 148 - No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and Motor Vehicle Law (L. 1904, oh. 538), § 3. use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person...
Page 442 - ... sustenance, food or drink, or neglects or refuses to furnish it such sustenance or drink, or causes, procures or permits any animal to be overdriven, overloaded, tortured, cruelly beaten, or unjustifiably injured. maimed, mutilated or killed, or to be deprived of necessary food or drink, or who...

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