The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 15West Publishing Company, 1883 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 66
... road in question in the usual and customary manner to and from the store and wherever their business may have required them to go . The fact that the way in question was not a legally laid out or opened public highway is of no ...
... road in question in the usual and customary manner to and from the store and wherever their business may have required them to go . The fact that the way in question was not a legally laid out or opened public highway is of no ...
Page 67
... road when in- jured , the Stephenson Company could not itself possess the right to willfully or carelessly endanger his life , nor could it give this right to another . And although the defendant may in the first instance have had ...
... road when in- jured , the Stephenson Company could not itself possess the right to willfully or carelessly endanger his life , nor could it give this right to another . And although the defendant may in the first instance have had ...
Page 73
... road at an annual rental of 7 per cent . of its cost , will not render such juror in- competent on the ground of ... road is local to the city of De- troit and its vicinity , and appears to be designed to connect other roads with a union ...
... road at an annual rental of 7 per cent . of its cost , will not render such juror in- competent on the ground of ... road is local to the city of De- troit and its vicinity , and appears to be designed to connect other roads with a union ...
Page 74
... road . But what was the Butler bonus , and what grounds had the circuit judge for an opinion or an inference that participation in it made the participator inter- ested in this road ? It is not shown to us that the Butler bonus was ...
... road . But what was the Butler bonus , and what grounds had the circuit judge for an opinion or an inference that participation in it made the participator inter- ested in this road ? It is not shown to us that the Butler bonus was ...
Page 75
... road for which the bonus was raised has acquired the right to a perpetual lease of the projected new road , at an annual rental of 7 per centum of its costs , and is thereby directly interested in the construction ; its purpose being to ...
... road for which the bonus was raised has acquired the right to a perpetual lease of the projected new road , at an annual rental of 7 per centum of its costs , and is thereby directly interested in the construction ; its purpose being to ...
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Page 615 - All political power is inherent in the people. Government is instituted for the protection, security, and benefit of the people, and they have the right to alter or reform the same whenever the public good may require it.
Page 393 - If the payment be less than the interest, the surplus of interest must not be taken to augment the principal; but interest continues on the former principal until the period when the payments, taken together, exceed the interest due, and then the surplus is to be applied towards discharging the principal; and interest is to be Computed on the balance, as aforesaid.
Page 626 - Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in either House of the General Assembly ; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two Houses, such proposed amendment shall be entered on their journals, with the yeas...
Page 625 - Any amendment or amendments to this constitution may be proposed in the senate and assembly; and if the same shall be agreed to by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals with the yeas and nays taken thereon...
Page 5 - The court shall, in every stage of an action, disregard any error or defect in the pleadings or proceedings which shall not affect the substantial rights of the adverse party, and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.
Page 285 - This riparian right is property, and is valuable, and though it must be enjoyed in due subjection to the rights of the public, it cannot be arbitrarily or capriciously destroyed or impaired.
Page 317 - ... not sold, reserved or otherwise disposed of by the United States, and to which a preemption or homestead claim may not have attached, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed...
Page 604 - 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.
Page 542 - ... repair, such township, village, city or corporation shall be liable to and shall pay to the person or persons so injured or disabled just damages, to be recovered in an action of trespass on the case before any court of competent jurisdiction.
Page 202 - ... the corporation shall not be liable for any such damages, unless negligently or willfully done...