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 31Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1893 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... caused the injury, without any fault on the part of defendant, and that but for the careless act of the drayman, the ... cause any liability on the part of the city, and you should find a verdict for the defendant." Plaintiff's case iB ...
... caused the injury, without any fault on the part of defendant, and that but for the careless act of the drayman, the ... cause any liability on the part of the city, and you should find a verdict for the defendant." Plaintiff's case iB ...
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... CAUSE . —When it is negligence on the part of a city , at the time of an injury , to have failed to remove a lumber . pile from a street , and this failure and the act of a drayman both concur in causing the injury , without ...
... CAUSE . —When it is negligence on the part of a city , at the time of an injury , to have failed to remove a lumber . pile from a street , and this failure and the act of a drayman both concur in causing the injury , without ...
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... caused by any careless piling of the lumber . There was evidence tending to establish the facts set up in defense . The court instructed the jury as follows : " The proximate cause of plaintiff's injury was not the pile of lumber , but ...
... caused by any careless piling of the lumber . There was evidence tending to establish the facts set up in defense . The court instructed the jury as follows : " The proximate cause of plaintiff's injury was not the pile of lumber , but ...
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... caused by the act of an intermediate agency , by the act of the drayman as the proximate cause , and the city would not be liable . We do not think this is the princi- ple governing the case . If it should be held that it was neg ...
... caused by the act of an intermediate agency , by the act of the drayman as the proximate cause , and the city would not be liable . We do not think this is the princi- ple governing the case . If it should be held that it was neg ...
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... cause of the injury . By proximate cause we do not mean the last act of cause , or nearest act to the injury , but such act , wanting in ordinary care , as actively aided in pro- ducing the injury as a direct and existing cause . It ...
... cause of the injury . By proximate cause we do not mean the last act of cause , or nearest act to the injury , but such act , wanting in ordinary care , as actively aided in pro- ducing the injury as a direct and existing cause . It ...
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Page 215 - Any county, city, town, or township may make and enforce within its limits all such local, police, sanitary, and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws.
Page 633 - It is too firmly established in the present day to be questioned that the capital stock of a corporation is a trust fund for the payment of its debts.
Page 581 - No law shall embrace more than one object, which shall be expressed in its title...
Page 363 - In respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property...
Page 430 - Water and oil, and still more strongly gas, may be classed by themselves, if the analogy be not too fanciful, as minerals ferae naturae. In common with animals, and unlike other minerals, they have the power and the tendency to escape without the volition of the owner. Their 'fugitive and wandering existence within the limits of a particular tract is uncertain,' as said by Chief Justice Agnew in Brown v.
Page 637 - Every share in any company shall be deemed and taken to have been issued, and to be held, subject to the payment of the whole amount thereof in cash...
Page 501 - All persons having an interest in the subject of the action, and in obtaining the relief demanded, may be joined as plaintiffs, except as otherwise provided in this article.
Page 91 - No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed ; and no conviction shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate.
Page 301 - ... in a county jail for a term not exceeding one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Page 436 - Beyond doubt those words are words of very 'comprehensive meaning, but it will be sufficient to say that the clause plainly and unmistakably secures and protects the right of a citizen of one State to pass into any other State of the Union for the purpose of engaging in lawful commerce, trade or business without molestation ; to acquire personal property, to take and hold real estate, to maintain actions in the courts of the State, and to be exempt from any higher taxes or excises than are imposed...