The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 8Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1889 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... liable to account to him for them from that date until he ceased to act and receive the fees and perquisites of the office : Mayfield v . Moore , 53 Ill . 428 ; 5 Am . Rep . 55. Each day the defendant usurped the office , and each fee ...
... liable to account to him for them from that date until he ceased to act and receive the fees and perquisites of the office : Mayfield v . Moore , 53 Ill . 428 ; 5 Am . Rep . 55. Each day the defendant usurped the office , and each fee ...
Page 48
... liable to all the rights of the plain- tiff , just as the original property held in trust could have been held , had it not been wrongfully converted into these notes . This claim is based on the familiar principle that where a trust ...
... liable to all the rights of the plain- tiff , just as the original property held in trust could have been held , had it not been wrongfully converted into these notes . This claim is based on the familiar principle that where a trust ...
Page 112
... liable for the amount of the checks in a suit by plaintiff for money had and received . Here there is nothing to indicate that the Penn Bank was not the owner of the Carroll sight draft . If Carroll had drawn that draft payable to his ...
... liable for the amount of the checks in a suit by plaintiff for money had and received . Here there is nothing to indicate that the Penn Bank was not the owner of the Carroll sight draft . If Carroll had drawn that draft payable to his ...
Page 144
... liable as though the sidewalk had been built by its express authority . VERDICT ARRIVED AT BY EACH JUROR MARKIing a Sum as Damages , the total of which constitutes a dividend , taking their own number as a divisor , and the quotient as ...
... liable as though the sidewalk had been built by its express authority . VERDICT ARRIVED AT BY EACH JUROR MARKIing a Sum as Damages , the total of which constitutes a dividend , taking their own number as a divisor , and the quotient as ...
Page 147
... liable as though the walk had been built by its ex- press authority . Having carefully examined the evidence as to the nature and extent of the plaintiff's injuries , I fail to see that the damages allowed by the verdict are excessive ...
... liable as though the walk had been built by its ex- press authority . Having carefully examined the evidence as to the nature and extent of the plaintiff's injuries , I fail to see that the damages allowed by the verdict are excessive ...
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Page 386 - ... aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution, controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of land, money or other personal property ever be made by the State or any such public corporation to any church or for any sectarian purpose.
Page 640 - Stock (Sec. 5201). —No association shall make any loan or discount on the security of the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith...
Page 672 - ... the southeast quarter of section 29; the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of section 32; the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter...
Page 715 - First — After all my lawful debts are paid and discharged, I give and bequeath to my two daughters, Mary L.
Page 417 - ... said party of the first part, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns...
Page 257 - ... when the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
Page 386 - Neither the General Assembly nor any county, city, town, township, school district, or other public corporation, shall ever make any appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever...
Page 279 - Such notes, made payable to the order of the maker thereof, or to the order of a fictitious person, shall, if negotiated by the maker, have the same effect and be of the same validity as against the maker and all persons having knowledge of the facts as if payable to bearer.
Page 81 - The Legislature shall protect by law, from forced sale, a certain portion of the homestead and other property of all heads of families.
Page 554 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.