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 57Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1897 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... agreed upon by the general council of said city , a gauge which shall in- dicate an average pressure of eighty ( 80 ) pounds at the hydrant for every twenty - four hours ; failure to maintain such pressure shall abate the price ...
... agreed upon by the general council of said city , a gauge which shall in- dicate an average pressure of eighty ( 80 ) pounds at the hydrant for every twenty - four hours ; failure to maintain such pressure shall abate the price ...
Page 31
... agreed compensation . But the company also owes a duty to the public . Neither it nor the city would be permitted , summarily and without mak- ing some other provision for the safety of the public , to shut off the water . We judicially ...
... agreed compensation . But the company also owes a duty to the public . Neither it nor the city would be permitted , summarily and without mak- ing some other provision for the safety of the public , to shut off the water . We judicially ...
Page 41
... agreed to pay for the goods and fix- tures , and for which their notes , which it is averred in the bill were negotiable , were given , was full and adequate . The notes were for about $ 1,550 . He testified that the goods and the store ...
... agreed to pay for the goods and fix- tures , and for which their notes , which it is averred in the bill were negotiable , were given , was full and adequate . The notes were for about $ 1,550 . He testified that the goods and the store ...
Page 43
... agreed to be liable for . When it was that the cash payments were made is not shown , but it does appear that the McPolland debt existed before the notes were made . We are not authorized , under this evidence , to draw the inference ...
... agreed to be liable for . When it was that the cash payments were made is not shown , but it does appear that the McPolland debt existed before the notes were made . We are not authorized , under this evidence , to draw the inference ...
Page 44
... agreed between the parties , in respect to the transcript of judg- ments offered in evidence , that they did not show they were valid or subsisting judgments or causes of action against the defend- ants , or 26 that such judgments had ...
... agreed between the parties , in respect to the transcript of judg- ments offered in evidence , that they did not show they were valid or subsisting judgments or causes of action against the defend- ants , or 26 that such judgments had ...
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Page 928 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their, contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice. Therefore you have this paramount public...
Page 891 - ... transported into any State or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale or storage therein, shall upon arrival in such State or Territory, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory, enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such animals or birds had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or...
Page 788 - It is admitted that the rule is difficult of application. But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.
Page 821 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable.
Page 17 - ... if the interest of the insured be other than unconditional and sole ownership; or if the subject of insurance be a building on ground not owned by the insured in fee simple...
Page 830 - it extends to the protection of the lives, limbs, health, comfort, and quiet of all persons, and the protection of all property within the State.
Page 700 - No suit or action on this policy for the recovery of any claim shall be sustainable in any court of law or equity unless all the requirements of this policy shall have been complied with, and unless commenced within twelve months next after inception of the loss.
Page 100 - Judicial power, as contradistinguished from the power of the laws, has no existence. Courts are the mere instruments of the law, and can will nothing. When they are said to exercise a discretion, it is a mere legal discretion, a discretion to be exercised in discerning the course prescribed by law ; and when that is discerned, it is the duty of the court to follow it.
Page 827 - When the products of the farm or the forest are collected and brought in from the surrounding country to a town or station serving as an entrepot for that particular region, whether on a river or a line of railroad, such products are not yet exports, nor are they in process of exportation, nor is exportation begun until they are committed to the common carrier for transportation out of the state to the state of their destination, or have started on their ultimate passage to that state.
Page 23 - And it is further provided in the policy that "if the interest of the assured in the property be any other than the entire, unconditional and sole ownership of the property for the use and benefit of the assured, or if the building insured stands upon leased ground, it must be so represented to the company, and so expressed in the written part of this policy; otherwise, the policy shall be void.