Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court [and District Court] of the Canal Zone, Volumes 1-2Isthmian Canal Commission Press, 1909 |
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action affidavit affirmed agent alleged amount Andrade Appeal by defendant appellant appellee attorney bill of exceptions Bonis Burat Canal Zone Cascadas cause charge Ching Chong Circuit Court Civil Code Civil Procedure Code of Civil COLLINS Colon common law complaint concurred contract counsel crime criminal damages decree Eagan embezzled error evidence facts appear fendant filed follows G. M. Shontz Galindo garnishee Gorgona Government granted guilty H. A. Gudger Hinckley and Ganson issued Isthmian Canal Commission Judge judgment judgment debtor jurisdiction jury JUSTICE larceny Las Cascadas LORIN lower court ment motion negligence offense opinion overruled Panama Railroad Company parties person petition plaintiff pleading possession proceedings proof prosecution public lands question reason record respondent resulting trust reversed rule Second Judicial Circuit statute Supreme Court testified testimony thereof Third Judicial Circuit tion trial court verdict Villalobos witness writ
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Page 126 - A conviction cannot be had on the testimony of any accomplice, unless he is corroborated by other evidence which in itself, and without the aid of the testimony of the accomplice, tends to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient, if it merely shows the commission of the offense, or the circumstances thereof.
Page 53 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control...
Page 13 - The court may, before, or after judgment, in furtherance of justice, and on such terms as may be proper, amend any pleading, process, or proceeding, by adding or striking out the name of any party, or by correcting a mistake in the name of a party, or a mistake in any other respect...
Page 54 - ... to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.
Page 82 - Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being, without malice. It is of two kinds: 1. Voluntary — upon a sudden quarrel or heat of passion; 2. Involuntary — in the commission of an unlawful act, not amounting to felony; or in the commission of a lawful act which might produce death, in an unlawful manner, or without due caution and circumspection.
Page 220 - And where the testimony leaves the matter uncertain and shows that any one of half a dozen things may have brought about the injury, for some of which the employer is responsible and for some of which he is not, it is not for the jury to guess between these half a dozen causes and find that the negligence of the employer was the real cause, when there is no satisfactory foundation in the testimony for that conclusion.
Page 3 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal...
Page 286 - The plaintiff may unite in the same complaint several causes of action, whether they be such as have been heretofore denominated legal or equitable, or both, where they all arise out of — 1. The same transaction, or transactions connected with the same subject of action; or, 2.
Page 129 - The granting of a new trial places the parties in the same position as if no trial had been had.
Page 56 - 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.