The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 70West Publishing Company, 1908 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 196 - No county, city, town or village shall hereafter give any money or property, or loan its money or credit to or in aid of any individual, association or corporation, or become directly or indirectly the owner of stock in, or bonds of, any association or corporation; nor shall any such county, city, town or village be allowed to incur any indebtedness except for county, city, town or village purposes.
Page 104 - It is only where the facts are such that all reasonable men must draw the same conclusion from them that the question of negligence is ever considered as one of law for the court.
Page 261 - 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 xix - ... that the same is true of his own knowledge, except as to the matters therein stated to be alleged on information and belief, and that as to those matters he believes it to be true.
Page 286 - On a rule for judgment for want of a sufficient affidavit of defense • the court below entered judgment for plaintiff (see opinion filed) for the larger part of his claim.
Page 231 - The verdict being for the plaintiff, the defendant moved in arrest of judgment, on the ground that the plaintiff had not alleged that he was the assignee of the reversion.
Page 422 - Should the Contractor at any time refuse or neglect to supply a sufficiency of properly skilled workmen, or of materials of the proper quality, or fail in any respect to prosecute the work with promptness and diligence, or fail in the performance of any of the agreements herein contained, such refusal, neglect or failure being certified by the Architect, the Owner shall be at liberty, after three days...
Page 175 - G. 2., c. 19, sec. 14, by which it was enacted, that, " it shall be lawful for a landlord, where the agreement is not by deed, to recover a reasonable satisfaction for the lands, tenements, or hereditaments, held or occupied by the defendant, in an action on the case, for the use and occupation of what was so held or enjoyed...
Page 208 - Contract, then this obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force and effect, subject, however, to the following conditions: 1.
Page 88 - In such cases, proof of good reputation for peace and quietude on the part of the defendant is proper evidence to be considered by the jury, In connection with all the other evidence. In...