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... juries to assess exemplary or punitive damages where injuries have resulted from neglect of duties , the court said : " The statutes of nearly every State of the Union provide for the increase of damages where the injury complained of ...
... juries to assess exemplary or punitive damages where injuries have resulted from neglect of duties , the court said : " The statutes of nearly every State of the Union provide for the increase of damages where the injury complained of ...
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... juries may go in awarding them . The law of Iowa under consideration is less open to objec- tion than that of Missouri , which was sustained in the case cited above . There double damages could be claimed by the owner whenever his ...
... juries may go in awarding them . The law of Iowa under consideration is less open to objec- tion than that of Missouri , which was sustained in the case cited above . There double damages could be claimed by the owner whenever his ...
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... jury that it was the duty of the company to fence its road against live stock running at large at all points where such right to fence existed ; and it was objected to this instruction that no such duty existed ; upon which the Supreme ...
... jury that it was the duty of the company to fence its road against live stock running at large at all points where such right to fence existed ; and it was objected to this instruction that no such duty existed ; upon which the Supreme ...
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... jury , among other things : " That if the jury find from the evidence the income of the city of Shreveport , which is collected under provision , Art . 208 , is insufficient to pay more than the amount necessary for alimony , and that ...
... jury , among other things : " That if the jury find from the evidence the income of the city of Shreveport , which is collected under provision , Art . 208 , is insufficient to pay more than the amount necessary for alimony , and that ...
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... jury being in favor of the plaintiffs , Benj . Jacobs and Joseph R. Smith , it is ordered , adjudged , and decreed that the plaintiffs do have and recover of the defendant , the city of Shreveport , the full sum of thirteen thousand two ...
... jury being in favor of the plaintiffs , Benj . Jacobs and Joseph R. Smith , it is ordered , adjudged , and decreed that the plaintiffs do have and recover of the defendant , the city of Shreveport , the full sum of thirteen thousand two ...
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Page 410 - Mariners, and of all other Perils, Losses, and Misfortunes, that have or shall come to the Hurt, Detriment, or Damage of the said Goods and Merchandises and Ship, &c., or any Part thereof...
Page 181 - Also to the ninth and tenth sections of an act entitled "An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: "SEC.
Page 293 - An action may be brought by any person in possession, by himself or his tenant of real property, against any person who claims an estate or interest therein adverse to him. for the purpose of determining such adverse claim, estate or interest.
Page 30 - Class legislation, discriminating against some and favoring others, is prohibited, but legislation which, in carrying out a public purpose, is limited in its application, if within the sphere of its operation it affects alike all persons similarly situated, is not within /the amendment.
Page 231 - Judgments or decrees in its favor: all deposits of money, bullion, or other valuable thing for its use, or for the use of any of its shareholders or creditors; and all payments of money to either, made after the commission of an act of insolvency, or in contemplation thereof...
Page 110 - Writs of error and appeals from the final decisions of said Supreme Court shall be allowed, and may be taken to the Supreme Court of the United States, in the same manner and under the same regulations as from the circuit courts of the United States...
Page 125 - State any office of honor, trust, or profit under its authority ; or of being an officer, councilman, director, trustee, or other manager of any corporation, public or private, now existing or hereafter established by its authority; or of acting as a professor or teacher in any educational institution, or in any common or other school ; or of holding any real estate or other property in trust for the use of any church, religious society or congregation.
Page 235 - The practice, pleadings and forma and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes, in the Circuit and District Courts, shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the State within which such Circuit or District Courts are held, any rule of court to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 524 - Its findings, like those of an independent tribunal, are to be taken as presumptively correct, subject, indeed, to be reviewed under the reservation contained in the consent and order of the court, when there has been manifest error in the consideration given to the evidence, or in the application of the law, but not otherwise.
Page 70 - BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit in equity, brought in the Circuit Court of...