Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 2West Publishing Company, 1883 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 26
... payment , it was for $ 2,296.29 , being at that rate ; that Stanton and Palmer , claiming to have a good defense against it , declined to pay it , when Embry thereupon brought suit for that amount , in Connecticut , in 1871 , which he ...
... payment , it was for $ 2,296.29 , being at that rate ; that Stanton and Palmer , claiming to have a good defense against it , declined to pay it , when Embry thereupon brought suit for that amount , in Connecticut , in 1871 , which he ...
Page 34
... payment , claiming that sum as a commission at the rate of 5 per cent . upon the amount collected , and the complainants re- fusing to pay any part of it , on the ground of defenses which applied to the whole of it , brought his first ...
... payment , claiming that sum as a commission at the rate of 5 per cent . upon the amount collected , and the complainants re- fusing to pay any part of it , on the ground of defenses which applied to the whole of it , brought his first ...
Page 62
... payments being secured by notes and mortgage . Held , that where the agreement between the parties , so far as it relates to the time and mode of payment , has failed by reason of the legal disability of the county to perform its part ...
... payments being secured by notes and mortgage . Held , that where the agreement between the parties , so far as it relates to the time and mode of payment , has failed by reason of the legal disability of the county to perform its part ...
Page 63
... payment of the first payment herein before enumerated , and put the said county of Douglas or its agents in full and peaceable possession of said described property . And the said party of the second part agrees to purchase said prop ...
... payment of the first payment herein before enumerated , and put the said county of Douglas or its agents in full and peaceable possession of said described property . And the said party of the second part agrees to purchase said prop ...
Page 67
... payment of money for a ' poor - farm ' by the county commissioners ; and here , too , is specially designated the money that may be used for that pur- pose , together with the mode of raising it . But there is not one word about ...
... payment of money for a ' poor - farm ' by the county commissioners ; and here , too , is specially designated the money that may be used for that pur- pose , together with the mode of raising it . But there is not one word about ...
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