The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 56Bancroft-Whitney, 1887 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 34
... deliver any part of the quantity ordered would not terminate the contract , unless the plaintiffs elected so to ... delivered on the cars at Coaling , as the plaintiffs might order , between September Johnson v . Allen . 12 , 1882 ...
... deliver any part of the quantity ordered would not terminate the contract , unless the plaintiffs elected so to ... delivered on the cars at Coaling , as the plaintiffs might order , between September Johnson v . Allen . 12 , 1882 ...
Page 35
... delivered some coal during each of the months mentioned , but not as much as 200 tons in any one month ; and about the 1st of February , 1883 , refused to deliver any more coal . The plaintiffs paid the defendants for the coal actually ...
... delivered some coal during each of the months mentioned , but not as much as 200 tons in any one month ; and about the 1st of February , 1883 , refused to deliver any more coal . The plaintiffs paid the defendants for the coal actually ...
Page 36
... deliver 200 tons in the month of September was a breach of the contract , occurring on the last day of the month , the defend- ants having the entire month in which to deliver . The plaintiffs , it is true , had the right to waive the ...
... deliver 200 tons in the month of September was a breach of the contract , occurring on the last day of the month , the defend- ants having the entire month in which to deliver . The plaintiffs , it is true , had the right to waive the ...
Page 37
... delivered . 2 Benj . Sales , § 1335 ; Sleuter v . Wallbaum , 45 Ill . 44 ; Worthen v . Wilmot 30 Vt . 555 ; Grand ... delivered by installments , and there is a failure to deliver two or more , or all of the installments , the proper ...
... delivered . 2 Benj . Sales , § 1335 ; Sleuter v . Wallbaum , 45 Ill . 44 ; Worthen v . Wilmot 30 Vt . 555 ; Grand ... delivered by installments , and there is a failure to deliver two or more , or all of the installments , the proper ...
Page 38
... delivered in about equal quantities in the months of September , October and November , 1871 , the vendor having failed to deliver any iron , it was held that the measure of damages was the sum of the three differences between the ...
... delivered in about equal quantities in the months of September , October and November , 1871 , the vendor having failed to deliver any iron , it was held that the measure of damages was the sum of the three differences between the ...
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Page 364 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 881 - ... shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.
Page 464 - ... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 594 - person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
Page 716 - The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say : Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace and of constables; For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors...
Page 95 - We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Page 54 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been...
Page 121 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission and delivery, or for nondelivery, of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Page 54 - ... the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Page 527 - Provided, that in actions where one of the original parties to the contract or cause of action in issue and on trial is dead...