Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, Volume 139State of Iowa, 1909 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . ACTION to recover damages for the overflowing of plain- tiff's land by water alleged to have been discharged thereon from a tile drain on defendant's land . There was a verdict for the plaintiff , and ...
... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . ACTION to recover damages for the overflowing of plain- tiff's land by water alleged to have been discharged thereon from a tile drain on defendant's land . There was a verdict for the plaintiff , and ...
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... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . THIS is an action to determine the boundary line be- tween two parcels of land in the city of Des Moines . The trial court established the line claimed by plaintiff , and de- fendant appeals.- Reversed ...
... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . THIS is an action to determine the boundary line be- tween two parcels of land in the city of Des Moines . The trial court established the line claimed by plaintiff , and de- fendant appeals.- Reversed ...
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... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . ACTION at law to recover on two accident insurance policies . Trial was had to a jury , and there was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff . Defendant appeals.- Reversed . Whipple & Brown and McBurney ...
... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . ACTION at law to recover on two accident insurance policies . Trial was had to a jury , and there was a verdict and judgment for plaintiff . Defendant appeals.- Reversed . Whipple & Brown and McBurney ...
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... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . ACTION to quiet title . Decree for defendants , from which plaintiff appeals.- Affirmed . J. C. Murtaugh and Connor & Lally , for appellees . Maurice O'Connor , for appellant . MCCLAIN , J. - In 1872 ...
... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . ACTION to quiet title . Decree for defendants , from which plaintiff appeals.- Affirmed . J. C. Murtaugh and Connor & Lally , for appellees . Maurice O'Connor , for appellant . MCCLAIN , J. - In 1872 ...
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... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . A DEMURRER to the petition was sustained , from which ruling the plaintiff appeals.- Affirmed . Geo . W. Bowman and J. M. Graham , for appellant . Cosson & Ross , for appellee . LADD , C. J. - The ...
... Judge . TUESDAY , JULY 7 , 1908 . A DEMURRER to the petition was sustained , from which ruling the plaintiff appeals.- Affirmed . Geo . W. Bowman and J. M. Graham , for appellant . Cosson & Ross , for appellee . LADD , C. J. - The ...
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Page 145 - In order, however, that any such instrument when completed may be enforced against any person who became a party thereto prior to its completion, it must be filled up strictly in accordance with the authority given and within a reasonable time. But if any such instrument, after completion, is negotiated to a holder in due course, it is valid and effectual for all purposes in his hands, and he may enforce it as if it had been filled up strictly in accordance with the authority given and within a reasonable...
Page 578 - Every holder is deemed prima facie to be a holder in due course ; but when it is shown that the title of any person who has negotiated the instrument was defective, the burden ia on the holder to prove that he or some person under whom he claims, acquired the title as a holder in due course.
Page 310 - Where a party gives a reason for his conduct and decision touching anything involved in a controversy, he cannot, after litigation has begun, change his ground, and put his conduct upon another and a different consideration. He is not permitted thus to mend his hold. He Is estopped from doing it by a settled principle of law.
Page 475 - All insurance companies or associations shall upon the issue, or renewal, of any policy attach to such policy, or indorse thereon, a true copy of any application or representation of the assured, which, by the terms of such policy, are made a part thereof, or of the contract of insurance, or referred to therein, or which may in any manner affect the validity of such policy.
Page 145 - Where the instrument is wanting in any material particular, the person in possession thereof has a prima facie authority to complete it by filling up the blanks therein. And a signature on a blank paper delivered by the person making the signature in order that the paper may be converted into a negotiable instrument operates as a prima facie authority to fill it up as such for any amount.
Page 573 - by reason of the course of trade which creates a property in the assignee or bearer," and this reason is repeated by Lord) Mansfield in Miller v.
Page 178 - In the hands of any holder other than a holder in due course, a negotiable instrument is subject to the same defenses as if it were non-negotiable. But a holder who derives his title through a holder in due course, and who is not himself a party to any fraud or illegality affecting the instrument, has all the rights of such former holder in respect of all parties prior to the latter.
Page 135 - ... no person shall be permitted to question the title acquired by a treasurer's deed without first showing that he, or the person under whom he claims title, had title to the property at the time of the sale, or that the title was obtained from the United States or this state after the sale...
Page 70 - ... rate of such increase and the purpose for which it is intended shall have been submitted to a vote of the people, and a majority of the qualified voters of such county, city, or school district...
Page 148 - ... note has himself, by careless execution of the instrument, left room for any alteration to be made, either by insertion or erasure, without defacing it or exciting the suspicions of a careful man, he will be liable upon it to...