Southern Reporter, Volume 93West Publishing Company, 1923 Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana. |
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... averred in the bill that the maximum horse power required to operate efficiently the present water system is 550 horse power of electricity ; that the horse power required under ordinary conditions for operating the waterworks for all ...
... averred in the bill that the maximum horse power required to operate efficiently the present water system is 550 horse power of electricity ; that the horse power required under ordinary conditions for operating the waterworks for all ...
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... averred that the proportion of power thus generated to be devoted to the water system will be insignifi- cant in comparison with the proportion sold for commercial purposes , the respective pro- portions being alleged to be as one ...
... averred that the proportion of power thus generated to be devoted to the water system will be insignifi- cant in comparison with the proportion sold for commercial purposes , the respective pro- portions being alleged to be as one ...
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... averred or inferably suggested in the bill , the value of the proposed plant and transmission lines being substantially equivalent to the cost thereof under the plans and specifications made by the engineers . Hence neither the mere ...
... averred or inferably suggested in the bill , the value of the proposed plant and transmission lines being substantially equivalent to the cost thereof under the plans and specifications made by the engineers . Hence neither the mere ...
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... averring that defendant by its servants , agents , or employees , negligently committed the act averring that the act was in the line and scope causing death , is sufficient , without further of employment . 2. Master and servant 329 ...
... averring that defendant by its servants , agents , or employees , negligently committed the act averring that the act was in the line and scope causing death , is sufficient , without further of employment . 2. Master and servant 329 ...
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... averring negligence of defend- ant's agent must be supported by proof that the agent was acting at the time in the line and scope of his employment on the duties under his employment . 4. Trial 145 - Error to refuse general affirm ...
... averring negligence of defend- ant's agent must be supported by proof that the agent was acting at the time in the line and scope of his employment on the duties under his employment . 4. Trial 145 - Error to refuse general affirm ...
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Page 191 - The shareholders of every national banking association shall be held individually responsible, equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts and engagements of such association, to the extent of the amount of their stock therein, at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares.
Page 18 - That every Federal land bank and every national farm loan association, including the capital and reserve or surplus therein and the income derived therefrom, shall be exempt from Federal, State, municipal, and local taxation...
Page 208 - US 263: —'Subject to the two leading prohibitions that their charges shall not be unjust or unreasonable, and that they shall not unjustly discriminate, so as to give undue preference or disadvantage to persons or traffic similarly circumstanced, the Act to Regulate Commerce leaves common carriers as they were at the common law, free to make special contracts looking to the increase of their business, to classify their traffic, to adjust and apportion their rates so as to meet the necessities of...
Page 325 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society.
Page 18 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 303 - The essence of a provision forbidding the acquisition of evidence in a certain way is that not merely evidence so acquired shall not be used before the court but that it shall not be used at all.
Page 191 - ... shall be liable in like manner, and to the same extent as the testator or intestate. or the ward or person interested in such trust fund would have been, if he had been living and competent to act, and held the same stock in his own name.
Page 304 - Amendment is to put the courts of the United States and Federal officials, in the exercise of their power and authority, under limitations, and restraints as to the exercise of such power and authority, and to forever secure the people, their persons, houses, papers, and effects against all unreasonable searches and seizures under the guise of law.
Page 304 - Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution. The efforts of the courts and their officials to bring the guilty to punishment, praiseworthy as they are, are not to be aided by the sacrifice of those great principles established by years of endeavor and suffering which have resulted in their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land.
Page 205 - A person to whom a negotiable receipt has been duly negotiated acquires thereby: (a) Such title to the goods as the person negotiating the receipt to him had or had ability to convey to a purchaser in good faith for value...