North Carolina Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Volume 143Nichols & Gorman, book and job printers, 1907 - Law reports, digests, etc Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina. |
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... fact , " Found dead with a gunshot wound in his left side , " with the additional and only explanatory state- ment of the applicant ... facts tending to show she THAXTON v . INSURANCE CO . had used them by 38 [ 143 IN THE SUPREME COURT .
... fact , " Found dead with a gunshot wound in his left side , " with the additional and only explanatory state- ment of the applicant ... facts tending to show she THAXTON v . INSURANCE CO . had used them by 38 [ 143 IN THE SUPREME COURT .
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... fact within her knowledge . It is merely her inference from supposed attending circumstances which she deemed ... facts and not opinions or conclusions of witnesses , except in certain cases , of which this certainly is not one ...
... fact within her knowledge . It is merely her inference from supposed attending circumstances which she deemed ... facts and not opinions or conclusions of witnesses , except in certain cases , of which this certainly is not one ...
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... facts and circumstances in re- gard to the manner of the killing have vouchsafed no definite explanation of it , but have considered their duty performed by giving us a mere surmise , which we are just as capable of making as they . We ...
... facts and circumstances in re- gard to the manner of the killing have vouchsafed no definite explanation of it , but have considered their duty performed by giving us a mere surmise , which we are just as capable of making as they . We ...
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... fact may be drawn from the evidence . Spruill v . Ins . Co. , supra . Unless it is perfectly clear and manifest that there is ... facts . The majority , it seems to me , have attached too much importance to incompetent , irrelevant and ...
... fact may be drawn from the evidence . Spruill v . Ins . Co. , supra . Unless it is perfectly clear and manifest that there is ... facts . The majority , it seems to me , have attached too much importance to incompetent , irrelevant and ...
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... facts constituting a cause of action as to those matters alleged to have occurred after the said train left the said road of this defendant , and said cause of action for such alleged negligent acts is solely against the North Carolina ...
... facts constituting a cause of action as to those matters alleged to have occurred after the said train left the said road of this defendant , and said cause of action for such alleged negligent acts is solely against the North Carolina ...
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Page 105 - Constitutes a Holder in Due Course. A holder in due course is a holder who has taken the instrument under the following conditions: 1. That it is complete and regular upon its face; 2. That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact; 3. That he took it in good faith and for value; 4. That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person...
Page 667 - And be it enacted, that if any person being married, shall marry any other person during the life of the former husband or wife, whether the second marriage shall have taken place in England or elsewhere, every such offender, and every person counselling, aiding, or abetting such offender, shall be guilty of felony...
Page 101 - A holder in due course is a holder who has taken the instrument under the following conditions : — 1. That it is complete and regular upon its face ; 2. That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact; 3. That he took it in good faith and for value; 4. That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any...
Page 596 - That principle is, that where a corporation, like a railroad company, has granted to it by charter a franchise intended in large measure to be exercised for the public good, the due performance of those functions being the consideration of the public grant, Opinion of the Court.
Page 282 - There must be reasonable evidence of negligence; but where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 744 - When a thing which causes injury is shown to be under the management of the defendant, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from a want of care.
Page 13 - The legislature may undoubtedly prescribe qualifications for the office, to which he must conform, as it may, where it has exclusive jurisdiction, prescribe qualifications for the pursuit of any of the ordinary avocations of life.
Page 650 - ... or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Page 315 - In case any passenger on any railroad shall be injured while on the platform of a car, or on any baggage, wood, or freight car, in violation of the printed regulations of the company posted up at the time in a conspicuous place inside of its passenger cars then in the train, such company shall not be liable for the injury ; provided said company at the time furnished room inside its passenger cars sufficient for the proper accommodation of the passengers.
Page 784 - Upon a review of the cases which are reported, this court is of opinion, that a letter written within a reasonable time before or after the date of a bill of exchange, describing it in terms not to be mistaken, and promising to accept it, is, if shown to the person who afterwards takes the bill on the credit of the letter, a verbal acceptance binding the person who makes the promise.