The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 40West Publishing Company, 1889 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Error to circuit court , Bay county ; S. M. GREEN , Judge . Two actions of assumpsit , by Alvin Maltby , W. Irving ... error . Tursney & Weadock , ( T. A. E. & J. C. Weadock , of counsel , ) for plaintiff in error . J. L. Stoddard , ( B ...
... Error to circuit court , Bay county ; S. M. GREEN , Judge . Two actions of assumpsit , by Alvin Maltby , W. Irving ... error . Tursney & Weadock , ( T. A. E. & J. C. Weadock , of counsel , ) for plaintiff in error . J. L. Stoddard , ( B ...
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... error . The case The record contains substantially all the evidence in the case . was fully submitted by the court to the jury upon the respective claims of the parties for damages growing out of this contract under the special counts ...
... error . The case The record contains substantially all the evidence in the case . was fully submitted by the court to the jury upon the respective claims of the parties for damages growing out of this contract under the special counts ...
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... error in the record upon the reception or rejection of evidence . The case was fully tried and submitted to the jury under a very full and fair charge by the court . We find no error in the construction given to the contract by the ...
... error in the record upon the reception or rejection of evidence . The case was fully tried and submitted to the jury under a very full and fair charge by the court . We find no error in the construction given to the contract by the ...
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... error to charge that if , before signing the contract to purchase , de- fendant said that he wished his attorney to look the papers over , but afterwards changed his mind , and executed the contract , it would bind him as if nothing had ...
... error to charge that if , before signing the contract to purchase , de- fendant said that he wished his attorney to look the papers over , but afterwards changed his mind , and executed the contract , it would bind him as if nothing had ...
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... error . Geer & Williams , for defendant in error . CAMPBELL , J. Plaintiff sued defendant for two car - .oads of coal ordered by him in January , 1887 , by two written orders which contained only direc- tions to forward , by one , two ...
... error . Geer & Williams , for defendant in error . CAMPBELL , J. Plaintiff sued defendant for two car - .oads of coal ordered by him in January , 1887 , by two written orders which contained only direc- tions to forward , by one , two ...
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Page 509 - the rule of law is clear, that, where one, by his words or conduct, wilfully causes another to believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter, a different state of things, as existing at the same time.
Page 489 - ... is threatened with many more of such actions. To sustain the demurrer, or rather to reverse the order overruling the same, in this court, the learned counsel of the appellant relies only on the main ground that the complaint does not state a cause of action. The contention of the learned counsel is, in short, that the ordinance confers no corporate privileges or franchises, and that it is a mere contract between the company and the city, for a breach of which the city has the usual remedy by...
Page 402 - ... the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action had he lived against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed...
Page 414 - The taking, receiving, reserving or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done, shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill or other evidence of debt carries with it, or which has been agreed to be paid thereon. In case the greater rate of interest has been paid, the person by whom it has been paid, or his legal representatives, may recover back in an action in the nature of an action of debt, twice the amount of...
Page 554 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence, by reason of his presence or absence, while employed in the service of the United States; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State, or of the United States, or of the high seas; nor while a student of any seminary of learning; nor while kept at any alms-house, or other asylum, at public expense; nor while confined in any public prison.
Page 182 - ... and acquiesced for a great length of time. Nothing can call forth this court into activity but conscience, good faith, and reasonable diligence; where these are wanting, the court is passive and does nothing. Laches and neglect are always discountenanced...
Page 607 - In all cases in which it shall be, made to appear to the court that a fair and impartial trial cannot be had in the county where the suit is pending...
Page 529 - The time in which any act provided by law is to be done is computed by excluding the first day and including the last, unless the last day is a holiday, and then it is also excluded.
Page 421 - Upon this and other evidence in the case, the counsel for the defendants (the now plaintiffs in error) asked the court to instruct the jury, that if they should find, from the evidence, that...
Page 414 - That suits, actions, and proceedings against any association under this title may be had In any circuit, district, or territorial court of the United States, held within the district in which such association may be established, or in any state, county, or municipal court in the county or city in which said association Is located, having jurisdiction in similar cases.