The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 166West Publishing Company, 1914 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... engine , boil- ers , pulleys , and apparatus used in connec- tion with the machinery for manufacturing ice and generating light , and for such labor was to be paid $ 900 per year , payable at the end of the year from date of employment ...
... engine , boil- ers , pulleys , and apparatus used in connec- tion with the machinery for manufacturing ice and generating light , and for such labor was to be paid $ 900 per year , payable at the end of the year from date of employment ...
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... engine adjusted at times in order to be coupled by im- pact , and that such adjustment could be made with safety if the cars were not in motion , but the engine was moving toward the car to be that plaintiff sought to adjust the ...
... engine adjusted at times in order to be coupled by im- pact , and that such adjustment could be made with safety if the cars were not in motion , but the engine was moving toward the car to be that plaintiff sought to adjust the ...
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... engine and car , and that it became the duty of plaintiff then and there to couple the engine and car together , such allegation was sufficient to show that defendant was en- gaged in interstate commerce . [ 1 ] The first assignment of ...
... engine and car , and that it became the duty of plaintiff then and there to couple the engine and car together , such allegation was sufficient to show that defendant was en- gaged in interstate commerce . [ 1 ] The first assignment of ...
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... engine had failed to act when brought together , and ap- pellee was injured while trying to adjust the coupler on the engine so that it would couple . Merely putting couplers on the cars did not meet the requirements of the law , but ...
... engine had failed to act when brought together , and ap- pellee was injured while trying to adjust the coupler on the engine so that it would couple . Merely putting couplers on the cars did not meet the requirements of the law , but ...
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... engine and the sponse to the appeal of appellee's counsel . car . If the opinion can be construed into Appellee claims there was no error in the holding that a railroad company is under no argument , because the jury were advised to ...
... engine and the sponse to the appeal of appellee's counsel . car . If the opinion can be construed into Appellee claims there was no error in the holding that a railroad company is under no argument , because the jury were advised to ...
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Page 271 - No county, city, town, township, board of education, or school district, shall incur any indebtedness or liability in any manner or for any purpose exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified electors thereof, voting at an election to be held for that purpose...
Page 186 - ... unless, before or at the time of incurring such indebtedness, provision shall be made for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due, and also provision to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof on or before maturity, which shall not exceed forty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 194 - Insurance; provided, that the cause of action upon a contract, obligation or liability evidenced by a certificate, or abstract or guaranty of title of real property or policy of title insurance shall not be deemed to have accrued until the discovery of the loss or damage suffered by the aggrieved party thereunder.
Page 163 - It is a question of public expediency and public morality, and not of federal law. The police power of the state is fully competent to regulate the business, to mitigate Its evils, or to suppress it entirely. There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus sell Intoxicating liquors by retail; it Is Dot a privilege of a citizen of the state or of a citizen of the United States.
Page 1 - The idea that any legislature, state or federal, can conclusively determine for the people and for the courts that what it enacts in the form of law, or what it authorizes its agents to do, is consistent with the fundamental law, is opposition to the theory of our institutions.
Page 269 - In view of the adjudications these principles must be regarded as settled : " 1. A railroad corporation is a person within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment declaring that no state shall deprive any person of property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Page 21 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 37 - It is mutually agreed as to each carrier of all or any of said property over all or any portion of said...
Page 198 - ... then the law is for the defendant and the jury should so find...
Page 162 - The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.