Southern Reporter, Volume 96West Publishing Company, 1923 - Law reports, digests, etc 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. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
action Affirmed agent Alice White alimony alleged amended amount ANDERSON Appeal from Circuit appellant appellee April 19 attorney Atty authority averred bank Birmingham bond cause certiorari charge Circuit Court claim Code complainant concur contract convicted cotton Coun Court of Alabama Criminal law damages deceased decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer dence detinue Digests and Indexes district evidence fact fendant filed heirs held indictment injury issue Jefferson county Jerry Lewis judge judgment jury Key-Numbered Digests land Leake county Lumber MCCLELLAN ment Miss mortgage motion negligence Orleans overruled paid parties payment person plaintiff plaintiff in error plea pleaded possession properly refused prosecution purchase question reasonable record recover Rehearing Reversed and remanded reversible error rule sheriff South statute street suit supra Supreme Court testified testimony thereof tiff tion topic and KEY-NUMBER trial court verdict witness
Popular passages
Page 254 - ... notice of such cancellation. If this policy shall be canceled as hereinbefore provided, or become void or cease, the premium having been actually paid, the unearned portion shall be returned on surrender of this policy or last renewal, this company retaining the customary short rate; except that when this...
Page 178 - Illinois hereby releasing and waiving all rights under and by virtue of the Homestead Exemption Laws of the State of Illinois.
Page 402 - ... be held to have assumed the risks of his employment in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed...
Page 159 - Whenever 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, then and in every such case, the person who, or the corporation which 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...
Page 391 - Judge, prove adverse, contradict him by other evidence, or, by leave of the Judge, prove that he has made at other times a statement inconsistent with his present testimony...
Page 383 - Every other killing of a human being, by the act, procurement or culpable negligence of another, where such killing is not justifiable or excusable, or is not declared in this Chapter murder, or in this Title manslaughter of some other degree, shall be deemed manslaughter in the fourth degree.
Page 167 - A statement of the facts constituting the cause of action, in ordinary and concise language...
Page 77 - Probable cause" has been defined as a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person accused is guilty of the offense with which he is charged.
Page 96 - That any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, under the laws of any State in this Union, .shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Page 103 - Whether the party thus misrepresenting a fact, knew it to be false, or made the assertion without knowing whether it were true or false, is wholly immaterial, for the affirmation of what one does not know, or believe to be true, is equally, in morals and law, as unjustifiable as the affirmation of what is known to be positively false.