The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 124

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West Publishing Company, 1910 - Law reports, digests, etc

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Page 100 - Every act shall embrace but one subject and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Page 188 - ... the party of the first part shall pay to the party of the second part...
Page 8 - Missouri statute provided that "in actions where one of the original parties to the contract or cause of action in issue and on trial is dead . . . the other party to such contract or cause of action shall not be admitted to testify either in his own favor...
Page 103 - A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense ; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.
Page 72 - If any person who shall have resided in this state, go from and do not return to this state for seven successive years, he shall be presumed to be dead, in any case wherein his death shall come in question, unless proof be made that he was alive within that time.
Page 184 - If it be done in the course of his employment, the master is liable ; and it makes no difference that the master did not authorize, or even know of the servant's act or neglect, or even if he disapproved or forbade it,. he is equally liable, if the act be done in the course of his servant's employment.
Page 60 - The court instructs the jury that if you find and believe from the evidence in this case that the policy in evidence was issued to Carl S.
Page 261 - Procedure requires that every action be brought in the name of the real party in interest...
Page 153 - To guard against mistakes or delays the sender of a message should order it repeated; that is, telegraphed back to the originating office for comparison. For this one half the regular rate is charged in addition.
Page 153 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery or for nondelivery of any unrepeated message, beyond the amount received for sending the same...

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