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 22Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1892 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... train : Ackerson v . Eric R'y Co. , 31 N. J. L. 309. In such case the action may be brought in any county where the company has an office or an agency : Toppins v . East Tennessee etc. R. R. Co. , 5 Lea , 600 ; or where the accident ...
... train : Ackerson v . Eric R'y Co. , 31 N. J. L. 309. In such case the action may be brought in any county where the company has an office or an agency : Toppins v . East Tennessee etc. R. R. Co. , 5 Lea , 600 ; or where the accident ...
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... trains , is entitled to damages , although such road is not upon his land nor is any of his property taken in its construction . WITNESSES OPINION AS EVIDENCE . In an action to recover damages from a railroad company for injury to ...
... trains , is entitled to damages , although such road is not upon his land nor is any of his property taken in its construction . WITNESSES OPINION AS EVIDENCE . In an action to recover damages from a railroad company for injury to ...
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... trains over the road . The court charged the jury , in effect , to find for the plain- tiff if his property had been damaged by the construction and operation of defendant's road , provided such damage resulted from the vibration ...
... trains over the road . The court charged the jury , in effect , to find for the plain- tiff if his property had been damaged by the construction and operation of defendant's road , provided such damage resulted from the vibration ...
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... for damages occurring from the construction of the works , or whether it included also such damages as resulted from the operation of the trains after the works had been constructed 46 [ Texas , GAINESVILLE ETC. RAILWAY Co. v . HALL .
... for damages occurring from the construction of the works , or whether it included also such damages as resulted from the operation of the trains after the works had been constructed 46 [ Texas , GAINESVILLE ETC. RAILWAY Co. v . HALL .
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... trains after the works had been constructed . The damages in the case were clearly of the latter character , and each of the judges who gave an opinion against the right of compensation placed it distinctly upon the ground that the acts ...
... trains after the works had been constructed . The damages in the case were clearly of the latter character , and each of the judges who gave an opinion against the right of compensation placed it distinctly upon the ground that the acts ...
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Page 248 - The court may determine any controversy between parties before it, when it can be done without prejudice to the rights of others, or by saving their rights ; but when a complete determination of the controversy cannot be had without the presence of other parties, the court must order them to be brought in.
Page 322 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law ; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.
Page 922 - 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 declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable. Any fair reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation...
Page 550 - Witnesseth: That the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00), lawful money of the United States of America, to them in hand paid by the said party of the second part...
Page 455 - Columbia, shall confine the same in cars. boats, or vessels of any description for a period longer than twenty-eight consecutive hours without unloading the same in a humane manner, into properly equipped pens for rest, water, and feeding, for a period of at least five consecutive hours...
Page 318 - ... there shall be in this State hereafter, but one form of action, for the enforcement or protection of private rights and the redress or prevention of private wrongs, which shall be denominated a civil action.
Page 515 - ... defectively or imperfectly stated or omitted, and without which it is not to be presumed that either the judge would direct the jury to give or the jury would have given the verdict, such defect, imperfection, or omission is cured by the verdict...
Page 249 - A cause of action arising out of the contract or transaction set forth in the complaint as the foundation of the plaintiff's claim, or connected with the subject of the action.
Page 682 - ... shall be absolutely void as against the creditors of the mortgagor, and as against subsequent purchasers and mortgagees in good faith...
Page 524 - ... all civil actions not otherwise provided for, shall be commenced within five years next after the cause of action accrued.