Southern Reporter, Volume 76West Publishing Company, 1918 - 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. |
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... corporation , each of which may punish it without violation of any constitutional principle . [ Ed . Note . - For other cases , see Criminal Law , Cent . Dig . §§ 404-406 . ] correctly held by the Court of Appeals , the conviction of ...
... corporation , each of which may punish it without violation of any constitutional principle . [ Ed . Note . - For other cases , see Criminal Law , Cent . Dig . §§ 404-406 . ] correctly held by the Court of Appeals , the conviction of ...
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... CORPORATIONS 79 - ACTION OF STOCK SUBSCRIPTION - JURY QUESTION . stockholder in defendant corporation , while there was evidence to the effect that defend- ant had denied plaintiff's ownership of stock , contending that an agent had ...
... CORPORATIONS 79 - ACTION OF STOCK SUBSCRIPTION - JURY QUESTION . stockholder in defendant corporation , while there was evidence to the effect that defend- ant had denied plaintiff's ownership of stock , contending that an agent had ...
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... CORPORATIONS 705 ( 12 ) -AU- TOMOBILE ACCIDENT - LIABILITY OF PERSON NOT OWNING Car . Where defendant was driving in an auto- nobile in full control thereof , except that he did not control its mere mechanical manipulation , ownership ...
... CORPORATIONS 705 ( 12 ) -AU- TOMOBILE ACCIDENT - LIABILITY OF PERSON NOT OWNING Car . Where defendant was driving in an auto- nobile in full control thereof , except that he did not control its mere mechanical manipulation , ownership ...
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... CORPORATIONS 423 - LIABILITY FOR AGENT'S TORT - KILLING OF SERVANT . Where the general agent or manager of de- fendant corporation in the work of constructing a railway shot and killed an employé after ter- mination of a quarrel over ...
... CORPORATIONS 423 - LIABILITY FOR AGENT'S TORT - KILLING OF SERVANT . Where the general agent or manager of de- fendant corporation in the work of constructing a railway shot and killed an employé after ter- mination of a quarrel over ...
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... corporation , against the Jonesings , and that the collection of any judgment Coal Company , a corporation , each doing busi- ness in Walker county , Ala . , for the specific performance of a contract . The contract sought to be here ...
... corporation , against the Jonesings , and that the collection of any judgment Coal Company , a corporation , each doing busi- ness in Walker county , Ala . , for the specific performance of a contract . The contract sought to be here ...
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Page 320 - The trustee of the estate of a bankrupt, upon his appointment and qualification, and his successor or successors, if he shall have one or more, upon his or their appointment and qualification, shall in turn be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt, as of the date he was adjudged a bankrupt, except in so far as it is to property which Is exempt...
Page 4 - A person to whom a negotiable receipt has been duly negotiated acquires thereby: . (a) Such title to the goods as the person negotiating the receipt to him had or had ability to convey to a purchaser in good faith for value...
Page 179 - States, deprives both the employer and the laborer of his property without due process of law, and denies to them the equal protection of the laws.
Page 279 - A child, when adopted, may take the family name of the 'person adopting. After adoption the two shall sustain towards each other the legal relation of parent and child, and have all the rights and be subject to all the duties of that relation.
Page 371 - A check of itself does not operate as an assignment of any part of the funds to the credit of the drawer with the bank, and the bank is not liable to the holder, unless and until it accepts or certifies the check.
Page 345 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable, substantial doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved...
Page 362 - Of the various circumstances which may determine whether in any case this character is or is not retained, the intention with which they are annexed is one; and if the intention is that they shall not by annexation become a part of the freehold, as a general rule they will not. The limitation to this is where the subject or mode of annexation is such as that the attributes of personal property cannot be predicated of the thing in controversy (Ford v.
Page 74 - When personal injury is caused to an employee who is himself in the exercise of due care and diligence at the time: 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 331 - From a deliberate and premeditated design to effect the death of the person killed, or of another; or, 2. By an act imminently dangerous to others, and evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, although without a premeditated design to effect the death of any individual; or without a design to effect death, by a person engaged in the commission of, or in an attempt to commit a felony, either upon or affecting the person killed or otherwise; or, 3.
Page 405 - No county, city, township school district or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.