The Mining Reports: A Series Containing the Cases on the Law of Mines Found in the American and English Reports, Arranged Alphabetically by Subjects, with Notes and References, Volume 4Callaghan, 1884 - Mining law |
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... appellants . HOBLITT & FOLEY and NELSON & ROBY , for appellees . By the Court , WALKER , C. J. The Lincoln Coal Company was first organized in the year 1867 , under the general incorporation law of this State , but afterward became ...
... appellants . HOBLITT & FOLEY and NELSON & ROBY , for appellees . By the Court , WALKER , C. J. The Lincoln Coal Company was first organized in the year 1867 , under the general incorporation law of this State , but afterward became ...
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... appellants entered into a written agreement that he should sell and transfer to them forty - three and one third shares of stock , and assign to them fifty - two bonds of the company , of $ 100 each with the interest thereon , and a ...
... appellants entered into a written agreement that he should sell and transfer to them forty - three and one third shares of stock , and assign to them fifty - two bonds of the company , of $ 100 each with the interest thereon , and a ...
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... appellants by false and fraudulent representations . Appellants claim that the company was hopelessly insolvent and without means to pay their debts and without credit , and that the property had been sold under a decree of court , and ...
... appellants by false and fraudulent representations . Appellants claim that the company was hopelessly insolvent and without means to pay their debts and without credit , and that the property had been sold under a decree of court , and ...
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... appellants might not become the purchasers at the sale . They were under no moral or legal obligation to advance their own means , pay the debts and preserve the property for the use of the other shareholders , who had declined to join ...
... appellants might not become the purchasers at the sale . They were under no moral or legal obligation to advance their own means , pay the debts and preserve the property for the use of the other shareholders , who had declined to join ...
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... appellants ; but when the sale amounted to a sufficient sum for that purpose , all that was sub- sequently sold was by Musick as the auctioneer of appellants , and they purchased at their own sale . This they could not do , any more ...
... appellants ; but when the sale amounted to a sufficient sum for that purpose , all that was sub- sequently sold was by Musick as the auctioneer of appellants , and they purchased at their own sale . This they could not do , any more ...
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acquired action admitted agent agreement alleged amount answer appears appellant applied appropriation authority called carried cause charge claim coal common complaint condition considered constructed contract conveyed corporation court creek custom damages deed defendants directors district ditch duty effect entitled error evidence existence extent fact feet filed flow further give given gold granted ground held hold hundred indictment injury instruction intent interest issued judgment jury land limits lode means miners mining mining claim natural necessary notice objection opinion owner paid parties payment person plaintiff possession present prior purchase quantity question reason record reference respect respondents rock rule shaft shares statute stockholders stream sufficient taken testimony thereof tion trial trustees vein
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Page 504 - That whenever by priority of possession rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes have vested and accrued and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same...
Page 424 - All records of mining claims hereafter made shall contain the name or names of the locators, the date of the location, and such a description of the claim or claims located by reference to some natural object or permanent monument as will identify the claim.
Page 740 - Negligence" has been defined to be 'the omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided by those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or doing something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.
Page 448 - And the space of time here referred to as comprehending the sickly season, shall be understood to extend from the first day of May to the first day of November.
Page 504 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 678 - The proceeds of all lands that have been or may hereafter be granted by the United States to the state for the support of a university, shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called the
Page 423 - States governing their possessory title, shall have the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the lines of their locations, and of all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth...
Page 683 - An act granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes," shall be abrogated by this act; and all patents granted shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights...
Page 28 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law, it possesses only those properties, which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.
Page 207 - The Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to enforce and carry into execution, by appropriate regulations, every part of the provisions of this title not otherwise specially provided for.