The N.Y. Weekly Digest of Cases Decided in the U.S. Supreme, Circuit, and District Courts, Appellate Courts of the Several States, State and City Courts of New York and English Courts, Volume 5McDivitt, Campbell & Company, 1878 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... ground that the evidence tended to prove a state of facts , which , if proved to the satisfac- tion of the jury , would have entitled plaintiffs to recover , i.e. , that the negli- gence of the master and those in charge of defendant's ...
... ground that the evidence tended to prove a state of facts , which , if proved to the satisfac- tion of the jury , would have entitled plaintiffs to recover , i.e. , that the negli- gence of the master and those in charge of defendant's ...
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... ground , the same must be specifically repre- sented to the company , and expressed a valid and obligatory contract , is in this policy in writing , otherwise evidence that through neglect or for- the insurance shall be void . " It ap ...
... ground , the same must be specifically repre- sented to the company , and expressed a valid and obligatory contract , is in this policy in writing , otherwise evidence that through neglect or for- the insurance shall be void . " It ap ...
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... ground of the fraud , have reached the land to satisfy their debts ; and also equally true that , as between Jeptha and Sterling Fowlkes , the conveyance was valid , and that a court of equity would not at the instance of Jeptha Fowlkes ...
... ground of the fraud , have reached the land to satisfy their debts ; and also equally true that , as between Jeptha and Sterling Fowlkes , the conveyance was valid , and that a court of equity would not at the instance of Jeptha Fowlkes ...
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... ground of error , whether upon the exceptions , or upon the ground that the verdict is against the weight of Vol . 5 - No . 2 * . David Risley , applt . , v . The Pho- nix Bank of the City of New York , respt . Decided July 6 , 1877 ...
... ground of error , whether upon the exceptions , or upon the ground that the verdict is against the weight of Vol . 5 - No . 2 * . David Risley , applt . , v . The Pho- nix Bank of the City of New York , respt . Decided July 6 , 1877 ...
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... ground to prove the guilty intent . This was an action to recover back , on the ground of usury , certain ware- house receipts held by defendant . It appeared that L. , plaintiff's assignor , who was a dealer in produce , entered into a ...
... ground to prove the guilty intent . This was an action to recover back , on the ground of usury , certain ware- house receipts held by defendant . It appeared that L. , plaintiff's assignor , who was a dealer in produce , entered into a ...
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Page 480 - Negligence is the failure to do what a reasonable and prudent person would ordinarily have done under the circumstances of the situation, or doing what such a person, under the existing circumstances would not have done.
Page 37 - States hereinbefore named, as may maintain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the Constitution, or may be from time to time occupied and controlled by forces of the United States engaged in the dispersion of said insurgents...
Page 215 - The inquiry must, therefore, always be whether there was any intermediate cause disconnected from the primary fault, and self-operating, which produced the injury.
Page 366 - State, subject only to the two restrictions, that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State...
Page 310 - The trial by jury in all cases in which it has been heretofore used shall remain inviolate forever; but a jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner to be prescribed by law.
Page 75 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: First, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction directly upon the point is as a plea a bar, or as evidence, conclusive between the same parties upon the same matter directly in question in another court...
Page 523 - There was some conflict of evidence as to the rate of speed at which the train was running at the time, and whether its bell was rung and its whistle sounded.
Page 214 - The true rule is that what is the proximate cause of an injury is ordinarily a question for the Jury. It is not a question of science or of legal knowledge. It is to be determined as a fact, in view of the circumstances of fact attending it.
Page 48 - He has no right to appropriate a sign or a symbol, which, from the nature of the fact it is used to signify, others may employ with equal truth, and therefore have an equal right to employ for the same purpose...
Page 366 - ... at a greater rate than is assessed upon such bonds ; and that, therefore, the taxation complained of is in violation of the act of Congress forbidding the taxation of national shares at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individuals.