The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 42Bancroft-Whitney, 1883 |
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... agent in controlling and causing to be executed the corporate powers and functions , has allowed to be done , or failed to prevent the doing of , that which the law prohibited . As a punishment for the wrong he is responsible for , he ...
... agent in controlling and causing to be executed the corporate powers and functions , has allowed to be done , or failed to prevent the doing of , that which the law prohibited . As a punishment for the wrong he is responsible for , he ...
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... agent , are for these reasons proper to be shown . - But a more difficult question is presented in this case and it is , whether the relation of the person offering the bribe to the witness was such to the company that it was ...
... agent , are for these reasons proper to be shown . - But a more difficult question is presented in this case and it is , whether the relation of the person offering the bribe to the witness was such to the company that it was ...
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... agent is put in charge and given power to control his de- partment ; but generally a superintendent is appointed to direct and control , appoint or remove subordinate agents and to intrust to each the power he may exercise , and ...
... agent is put in charge and given power to control his de- partment ; but generally a superintendent is appointed to direct and control , appoint or remove subordinate agents and to intrust to each the power he may exercise , and ...
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... agent of the town . Ross , J. , observed , " His employment to summon witnesses for the defendant did not authorize ... agent of the town , they would have been admissible . A town can only act through agents , and it would be a hardship ...
... agent of the town . Ross , J. , observed , " His employment to summon witnesses for the defendant did not authorize ... agent of the town , they would have been admissible . A town can only act through agents , and it would be a hardship ...
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... agents and servants were bound to be qualified and competent for their several employments . Again the law required appellant , as a common carrier , to use all reasonable exertion to protect its passengers from insult or injury from ...
... agents and servants were bound to be qualified and competent for their several employments . Again the law required appellant , as a common carrier , to use all reasonable exertion to protect its passengers from insult or injury from ...
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Page 270 - ... and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 137 - The question whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution is at all times a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case.
Page 22 - If the directors of any such company shall declare and pay any dividend when the company is insolvent, or any dividend the payment of which would render it insolvent, they shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company then existing...
Page 500 - Reasonable cause has been generally defined to be such a state of facts as would lead a man of ordinary care and prudence to believe and conscientiously entertain an honest and strong suspicion that the person is guilty of a crime.
Page 24 - ... shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company then existing, and for all that shall be thereafter contracted...
Page 253 - No will in writing, except in the cases hereinafter mentioned, nor any part thereof, shall be revoked, or altered, otherwise than by some other will in writing, or some other writing of the testator, declaring such revocation or alteration, and executed with the same formalities with which the will itself was required by law to be executed...
Page 271 - ... whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default, and the act, neglect, or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 718 - The effect of these decisions we understand to be this, namely, that a contract for the sale of articles then existing, or such as the vendor in the ordinary course of his business manufactures or procures for the general market, whether on hand at the time or not, is a contract for the sale of goods, to which the statute applies. But, on the other hand, if the goods are to be manufactured especially for the purchaser, and upon his special order, and not for the general market, the case is not within...
Page 399 - Nothing can be clearer, both upon principle and authority, than the doctrine that the liability of a surety is not to be extended, by implication, beyond the terms of his contract.
Page 423 - And to remove all doubts concerning the meaning of the word " inhabitant " in this constitution, every person shall be considered as an inhabitant, for the purpose of electing and being elected into any office, or place within this state, in that town, district, or plantation where he dwelleth, or hath his home.