The Southern Reporter, Volume 24West Publishing Company, 1899 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 414 - ... hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned in the County jail or sentenced to hard labor for the County for not more than six months.
Page 215 - As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey, the enlightened patriots who framed our constitution, and the people who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended what they have said.
Page 369 - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, shall make just compensation for property taken, injured, or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury, or destruction.
Page 150 - If the person injured is himself an employee of the company, and the damage was caused by another employee, and without fault or negligence on the part of the person injured, his employment by the company shall be no bar to the recovery [of damages].
Page 285 - It is hereby ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment appealed from be and the same is hereby...
Page 216 - The property of corporations now existing or hereafter created shall forever be subject to taxation, the same as the property of individuals.
Page 206 - ... shall be entitled to cast one vote for each share of stock held by him...
Page 196 - Courts will generally take notice of whatever ought to be generally known within the limits of their jurisdiction.
Page 150 - No person shall recover damages from a railroad company for injury to himself or his property where the same Is done by his consent, or Is caused by his own negligence.
Page 271 - Many attempts have been made in this court and elsewhere to define the police power, but never with entire success. It is always easier to determine whether a particular case comes within the general scope of the power than to give an abstract definition of the power itself which will be in all respects accurate.