The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 120Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1908 |
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... jury of inquest . In that case , however , 36 the validity of the appointment was directly called in question on writ of error to this court bringing up the whole proceedings for review , whereas in the case at bar the question of the ...
... jury of inquest . In that case , however , 36 the validity of the appointment was directly called in question on writ of error to this court bringing up the whole proceedings for review , whereas in the case at bar the question of the ...
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... Jury . - In bastardy proceedings , the court may allow the child to be exhibited to the jury . The weight to be given such evidence is for the jury . ( pp . 27 , 28. ) Hunt & Toney , for the appellant . Byron Herring , for the appellee ...
... Jury . - In bastardy proceedings , the court may allow the child to be exhibited to the jury . The weight to be given such evidence is for the jury . ( pp . 27 , 28. ) Hunt & Toney , for the appellant . Byron Herring , for the appellee ...
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... jury , it is nec- essarily inferred that an opportunity was sought to allow the jury to observe whether or not the child bore any re- semblance to the putative father . There is some conflict in the authorities on this question , but ...
... jury , it is nec- essarily inferred that an opportunity was sought to allow the jury to observe whether or not the child bore any re- semblance to the putative father . There is some conflict in the authorities on this question , but ...
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... Jury Trial . - If the court gives only general instructions when special should also have been given , this is not a ground for reversal at the instance of a party , who did not object to the action of the court when taken , 74 AMERICAN ...
... Jury Trial . - If the court gives only general instructions when special should also have been given , this is not a ground for reversal at the instance of a party , who did not object to the action of the court when taken , 74 AMERICAN ...
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... jury that Dupree assumed all the risks and hazards incident to his duties as car inspector ; and if he failed to comply with the rule , and was injured while failing to comply with it , such injury was one of the assumed risks of his ...
... jury that Dupree assumed all the risks and hazards incident to his duties as car inspector ; and if he failed to comply with the rule , and was injured while failing to comply with it , such injury was one of the assumed risks of his ...
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Page 398 - ... be ascertained by two competent and disinterested appraisers, the insured and this company each selecting one, and the two so chosen shall first select a competent and disinterested umpire; the appraisers together shall then estimate and appraise the loss, stating separately sound value and damage, and, failing to agree shall submit their differences to the umpire; and the award in writing of any two shall determine the amount of such loss...
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Page 398 - This company shall not be held to have waived any provision or condition of this policy or any forfeiture thereof by any requirement, act, or proceeding on its, part relating to the appraisal or to any examination herein provided for; and the loss shall not become payable until sixty days after the notice, ascertainment, estimate, and satisfactory proof of the loss herein required have been received by this company, including an award by appraisers when appraisal has been required.
Page 980 - ... for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same; and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed...
Page 814 - The limitations which this statute places upon her contractual powers, upon her right to agree with her employer as to the time she shall labor, are not imposed solely for her benefit, but also largely for the benefit of all.
Page 485 - No action may be brought upon any contract for the sale or other disposition of land or any interest in land, unless the agreement upon which such action is brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, is in writing, and signed by the party to be charged or by some other person thereunto by him lawfully authorised.
Page 299 - A court of equity, which is never active in relief against conscience or public convenience, has always refused its aid to stale demands, where the party has slept upon his right, and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith and reasonable diligence; where these are wanting, the court is passive, and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced, and therefore, from the beginning of this jurisdiction, there was...
Page 586 - Rights of property, like all other social and conventional rights, are subject to such reasonable limitations in their enjoyment, as shall prevent them from being injurious, and to such reasonable restraints and regulations established by law, as the legislature, under the governing and controlling power vested in them by the constitution, may think necessary and expedient.
Page 754 - The general principle announced in numerous cases is that a right, question or fact distinctly put in issue and directly determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, as a ground of recovery, cannot be disputed in a subsequent suit between the same partes or their privies; and even if the second suit is for a different cause of action, the right, question or fact once so determined must, as between the same parties or their privies, be taken as conclusively established, so long as the judgment...
Page 939 - delinquent child" shall include any child under the age of sixteen (16) years who violates any law of this state or any city or village ordinance, or who is incorrigible, or who knowingly associates with thieves, vicious or immoral persons, or who is growing up in idleness or crime, or who knowingly visits or enters a house of...