Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the County Courts of Philadelphia, and the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Volume 24

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Kay & Brother, 1889 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 58 - Every such action shall be brought by and In the names of the personal representatives of such deceased person, and the amount recovered In every such action shall be for the exclusive benefit of the widow and next of kin of such deceased person...
Page 58 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if 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...
Page 409 - ... cause the same to be reconstructed at its own expense in the most favorable location, and in as perfect a manner as the original road: Provided, That such expenses shall be equitably divided between any number of railroad companies occupying and using the same canyon, pass, or defile.
Page 24 - ... our Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, and every of them, firmly by these Presents.
Page 420 - The mischief designed to be remedied was the enactment of amendatory statutes in terms so blind that legislators themselves were sometimes deceived in regard to their effect, and the public, from the difficulty in making the necessary examination and comparison, failed to become apprised of the changes made in the laws.
Page 481 - Had he a disposing memory? Was he capable of recollecting the property he was about to bequeath ; the manner of distributing; it and the objects of his bounty? To sum up the whole in the most simple and...
Page 468 - It is true, the primary object of a trade-mark is to indicate by its meaning or association the origin of the article to which it is affixed. As a distinct property, separate from the article created by the original producer or manufacturer, it may not be the subject of sale.
Page 301 - ... from the concluding part of Lord Kenyon's judgment in Merryweather v. Nixan, and from reason, justice, and sound policy, the rule that wrong-doers cannot have redress or contribution against each other is confined to cases where the person seeking redress must be presumed to have known that he was doing an unlawful act.
Page 461 - All laws relating to courts shall be general and of uniform operation, and the organization, jurisdiction and powers of all courts of the same class or grade, so far as regulated by law, and the force and effect of the process...
Page 235 - The question in, expounding a will is not what the testator meant, but what is the meaning of his words.

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