The Southern Reporter, Volume 67West Publishing Company, 1915 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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action adverse possession Affirmed alleged amended APPEAL AND ERROR Appeal from Circuit appellee authority bank board of liquidation bond cause Cent charge Circuit Court claim Company complainant concur contract corporation Coun counsel court of equity Court of Florida CRIMINAL LAW damages deceased declaration decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer dismissed district Duval County equity estoppel evidence executed fact fendant filed Florida funds heirs injury issue Judge judgment jurisdiction jury land levy lien Louisiana Lumber ment Miss mortgage motion negligence Note.-For Orleans overruled parish parties payment Pensacola person plaintiff in error plea pleadings possession question quiet title railroad reason record Rehearing Reversed rule SHACKLEFORD Shreveport South statute suit supra Supreme Court sustained Syllabus Terra Ceia testator testimony thereof tiff tion trial court trust usury verdict witness writ
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Page 319 - America in the sum of dollars, lawful money of the United States, for the payment of which, well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, and each of us, our heirs, successors, executors, and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Page 203 - Code undertook to abolish these distinctions by enacting that "every act whatever of man that causes damage to another, obliges him by whose fault it happened to repair it.
Page 212 - That 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 318 - It is expressly understood and agreed that the party of the second part shall not pay more than the sum of $500 in any one year for the services of chemist, bacteriologist, and veterinary surgeon, and the party of the first part shall limit the expense of such service to that amount.
Page 280 - It may not be out of place to call attention to the fact that the...
Page 55 - ... the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 182 - That when any bankrupt shall have any insurance policy which has a cash surrender value payable to himself, his estate, or personal representatives, he may, within thirty days after the cash surrender value has been ascertained and stated to the trustee by the company issuing the same, pay or secure to the trustee the sum so ascertained and stated, and continue to hold, own, and carry such policy free from the claims of the creditors...
Page 146 - ... superior agent or officer, or of a person having the right to control or direct the services of the party injured...
Page 296 - We may lay it down as a broad general principle, that, wherever one of two innocent persons must suffer by the acts of a third, he who has enabled such third person to occasion the loss must sustain it.
Page 318 - THIS INDENTURE, made this day of , in the year One thousand, nine hundred and , between of , the party of the first part...