The Northwestern Reporter, Volume 37

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West Publishing Company, 1888 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 115 - The granting of a new trial places the parties in the same position as if no trial had been had. All the testimony must be produced anew, and the former verdict cannot be used or referred to, either in evidence or in argument, or be pleaded in bar of any conviction which might have been had under the indictment.
Page 631 - It is not a mere possible doubt; because everything relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Page 174 - This entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto, shall be void if the insured now has or shall hereafter make or procure any other contract of insurance, whether valid or not, on property covered in whole or in part by this policy...
Page 32 - 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 218 - ... should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Page 21 - ... shall be liable to a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $500, or to imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.
Page 237 - I hereby appoint sole executrix of this my last will and testament ; hereby revoking all former wills by me made.
Page 592 - When the evidence is concluded, either party may request instructions to the jury, on points of law, which shall be given, or refused by the court, which instructions shall be reduced to writing, if either party require it.
Page 312 - A motion to set aside the judgment and for a new trial having been made and overruled, the cause was again appealed to the Court of Appeals of Kentucky.
Page 86 - Upon the trial, and at the close of all the evidence, the defendant moved the court to direct a verdict in its favor, which...

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