Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, Volume 21E. W. Stephens, 1868 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 463 - All persons having an interest in the subject of the action, and in obtaining the relief demanded, may be joined as plaintiffs, except as otherwise provided in this article.
Page 355 - ... and the defendant shall, at the time of entering his appearance in such state court, file a petition for the removal of the cause for trial, into the next circuit court, to be held in the district where the suit is pending...
Page 565 - Nota, every contract made for or about any matter or thing which is prohibited and made unlawful by any statute, is a void contract, though the statute itself doth not mention that it shall be so but only inflicts a penalty on the offender; because a penalty implies a prohibition though there are no prohibitory words in the statute
Page 359 - Where a corporation is created by the laws of a State, the legal presumption is, that its members are citizens of the State in which alone the corporate body has a legal existence.
Page 355 - ... it shall then be the duty of the state court to accept the surety, and proceed no further in the cause...
Page 129 - The mayor and council shall have the care, supervision, and control of all public highways, bridges, streets, alleys, public squares, and commons within the city, and shall cause the same to be kept open and in repair, and free from nuisances.
Page 323 - On the day set a trial was had and the jury returned the following verdict: "We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged in the indictment and fix his punishment at ten years in the penitentiary.
Page 506 - An attorney has a lien for a general balance of compensation upon any papers of his client which have come into his possession in the course of his professional employment ; upon money in his hands belonging to his client, and in the hands of the adverse party in an action or proceeding in which the attorney was employed from the time of giving notice of the lien to that party.
Page 253 - ... evidence of entrapment, the issue must be recognized and adjudicated. But in the present case there is not the slightest bit of such evidence. None of the essential elements is presented. As we said, in US v. Markham, 7 Cir., 191 F.2d 936, 937...
Page 543 - Foreigners who are, or who may hereafter become bona fide residents of this State, shall enjoy the same rights in respect to the possession, enjoyment, and inheritance of property, as native born citizens.