The Northeastern Reporter, Volume 72West Publishing Company, 1905 Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio. |
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Page 332 - By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 442 - ... become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be .ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 124 - When we consider the nature and the theory of our institutions of government, the principles upon which they are supposed to rest, and review the history of their development, we are constrained to conclude that they do not mean to leave room for the play and action of purely personal and arbitrary power.
Page 42 - •In all cases, to warrant a recovery, it must appear that there has been some direct physical disturbance of a right, either public or private, which the plaintiff enjoys in connection with his property, and which gives to it an additional value, and that, by reason of such disturbance, he has sustained a special damage with respect to his property in excess of that sustained by the public generally.
Page 305 - The writ of mandamus may be denominated the writ of mandate.— 1873-345. 1085. It may be issued by any court, except a justice's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins, as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station...
Page 124 - ... every partial or private law which directly proposes to destroy or affect Individual rights, or does the same thing by affording remedies leading to similar consequences, Is unconstitutional and void.
Page 236 - A deposit by one person of his own money, in his own name, as trustee for another, standing alone, does not establish an Irrevocable trust during the lifetime of the depositor. It Is a tentative trust merely, revocable at will, until the depositor dies or completes the gift In his lifetime by some unequivocal act or declaration, such as delivery of the passbook or notice to the beneficiary.
Page 121 - The trustee may avoid any transfer by the bankrupt of his property which any creditor of such bankrupt might have avoided, and may recover the property so transferred, or its value, from the person to whom it was transferred, unless he was a bona fide holder for value prior to the date of the adjudication.
Page 249 - ... transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such creditors of the same class.
Page 372 - That the party of the second part shall pay to the party of the first part...