Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Washington, Volume 2Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1892 - Law reports, digests, etc Vol. 1 includes the decisions of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington for 1889. |
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Page 196 - Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer, or other person, who shall be injured in person or property, or means of support, by any intoxicated person, or in consequence of the intoxication, habitual or otherwise, of any person...
Page 520 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from which they are taken.
Page 126 - In criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have the right to appear and defend in person and by counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, to have a copy thereof, to testify in his own behalf...
Page 522 - No variance between the allegation in a pleading and the proof is to be deemed material, unless it has actually misled the adverse party to his prejudice in maintaining his action or defense upon the merits.
Page 653 - The construction given to a statute by those charged with the duty of executing it is always entitled to the most respectful consideration, and ought not to be overruled without cogent reasons. . . . The officers concerned are usually able men, and masters of the subject. Not unfrequently they are the draftsmen of the laws they are afterwards called upon to interpret.
Page 89 - ... all assignments and transfers of the right hereby secured, prior to the issuing of the patent, shall be null and void.
Page 356 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Page 499 - The legislature shall direct by law in what manner and in what courts suits may be brought against the State.
Page 522 - Whenever it shall be alleged that a party has been so misled, that fact shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Court, and in what respect he has been misled; and thereupon the Court may order the pleading to be amended, upon such terms as shall be just "Sec.
Page 681 - ... without the assent of three-fifths of the voters thereof, voting at an election, to be held for that purpose...