Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Wyoming, Volume 26

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Page 126 - No member of Congress from this State, nor any person holding or exercising any office or appointment of trust or profit under the United States, shall at the same time hold or exercise any office in this State to which a salary, fees, or perquisites shall be attached. The General Assembly may, by law, declare what offices are incompatible.
Page 325 - The supreme court shall also have power to issue writs of mandamus, review, prohibition, habeas corpus, certiorari and other writs necessary and proper to the complete exercise of its appellate and revisory jurisdiction. Each of the judges shall have power to issue writs of habeas corpus to any part of the state upon petition by or on behalf of a person held in actual custody, and may make such writs returnable before himself or before the supreme court, or before any district court of the State...
Page 355 - Section 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor., and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than...
Page 529 - In the view we take of the case it will not be necessary to consider the...
Page 292 - Unless the buyer shall accept and receive part of such goods, or the evidences, or some of them, of such things in action ; or, — 3. Unless the buyer shall at the time, pay some part of the purchase money.
Page 338 - ... shall not be alienated without the joint consent of husband and wife, when that relation exists; but no property shall be 22.
Page 151 - A bill is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such a manner as to constitute the transferee the holder of the bill. (2) A bill payable to bearer is negotiated by delivery. (3) A bill payable to order is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery.
Page 326 - The Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction only in cases in chancery, and shall constitute a Court for the correction of errors at law, under such restrictions as the General Assembly may, by law, prescribe...
Page 551 - Starr, forty-five dollars, for value received with interest at the rate of eight per cent, per annum from date, until paid...
Page 421 - A child, when adopted, may take the family name of the 'person adopting. After adoption the two shall sustain towards each other the legal relation of parent and child, and have all the rights and be subject to all the duties of that relation.

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