Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, Volume 290E.W. Stephens, 1922 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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acres adverse possession age district alleged amendment appellant Article authority ballots Bates County boundary lines Brown Carroll County Catterlin circuit court claim concur Constitution corporation counsel County court erred deceased decree deed of trust defendant defendant's demurrer earnings equity error estoppel evidence ex inf ex rel extend the boundaries facts filed Gilliland Grafeman Dairy injury instruction issue Jackson County Judge judgment jurisdiction Land Drainage District Louis McAllister ment Missouri motion Mountain Grove Nolker Norborne Land Drainage Northwestern Bank opinion Orthwein owners party person petition plaintiff Platt River pleadings poll book possession proceeding purpose question quo warranto Railroad Railway Ray County real estate record relators respondent rule rule against perpetuities S. W. Mo Sawyer Section 40 statute subpoena duces tecum suit sustained taxation testified testimony thereof tion train trial court verdict vested weight wife witness writ
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Page 622 - The legislative authority of the state shall be vested in a legislative assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the Constitution, and to «nact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly...
Page 477 - ... for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar, to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part, at or before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged...
Page 400 - That carriers while under Federal control shall be subject to all laws and liabilities as common carriers, whether arising under State or Federal laws or at common law, except in so far as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act or any other act applicable to such Federal control or with any order of the President.
Page 308 - Neither the general assembly nor any county, city, town, township, school district or other public corporation shall ever make any appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution, controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever...
Page 526 - When a train stops or is delayed, under circumstances in which it may be overtaken by another train, the flagman must go back immediately with stop signals a sufficient distance to insure full protection.
Page 335 - A person is held to a representation made or a position assumed, where otherwise inequitable consequences would result to another who, having the right to do so under all the circumstances of the case, has, in good faith, relied thereon.
Page 57 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 530 - Block. A length of track of defined limits, the use of which by trains is governed by block signals, cab signals, or both.
Page 203 - Intentionally to do that which is calculated in the ordinary course of events to damage, and which does, in fact, damage another in that other person's property or trade, is actionable if done without just cause or excuse.
Page 631 - O, wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us an' foolish notion: what airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, and ev'n Devotion!