Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Volume 139F.F. Handell, 1917 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Opinion . In part of the plaintiff's petition discloses that it was only a preliminary or tentative agree- [ 1 , 2 ] There is no merit in the appellee's ment , showing that the parties contemplated contention that the defendant's plea ...
... Opinion . In part of the plaintiff's petition discloses that it was only a preliminary or tentative agree- [ 1 , 2 ] There is no merit in the appellee's ment , showing that the parties contemplated contention that the defendant's plea ...
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... Opinion . [ 1 ] We find in the record what purports to be a copy of an act of procuration , execut- ed by Mrs. Alexina Bryan Laycock , author- ized by her husband , L. L. Laycock , before a notary public in Victoria county , Tex ...
... Opinion . [ 1 ] We find in the record what purports to be a copy of an act of procuration , execut- ed by Mrs. Alexina Bryan Laycock , author- ized by her husband , L. L. Laycock , before a notary public in Victoria county , Tex ...
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... opinion and decree , rejecting the demand for the recognition of the document last presented as the will of the decedent , but setting aside the order confirm- ing Rev. J. H. Trainor as executor of the in- strument first presented , and ...
... opinion and decree , rejecting the demand for the recognition of the document last presented as the will of the decedent , but setting aside the order confirm- ing Rev. J. H. Trainor as executor of the in- strument first presented , and ...
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... opinion and decree , on the merits of the appeal , this day handed down , hold , how- ever , that Rev. J. J. Rousseau is the legally nominated testamentary executor ; and , as Rev. James H. Trainor was otherwise inter- ested in the ...
... opinion and decree , on the merits of the appeal , this day handed down , hold , how- ever , that Rev. J. J. Rousseau is the legally nominated testamentary executor ; and , as Rev. James H. Trainor was otherwise inter- ested in the ...
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... opinion , by the testimony of experts . It will thus be seen that there are also three methods of proving handwriting in cases of wills , viz .: First , by witnesses who have seen the par- ty write the document ; Second , by witnesses ...
... opinion , by the testimony of experts . It will thus be seen that there are also three methods of proving handwriting in cases of wills , viz .: First , by witnesses who have seen the par- ty write the document ; Second , by witnesses ...
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Page 125 - A classification having some reasonable basis does not offend against that clause merely because it is not made with mathematical nicety or because in practice it results in some inequality.
Page 801 - If the precise amount of such advances made or of such liabilities incurred is, at the time of the issue of the receipt, unknown to the warehouseman or to his agent who issues it, a statement of the fact that advances have been made or liabilities incurred and the purpose thereof is sufficient. A warehouseman shall be liable to any person injured thereby, for all damage caused by the omission from a negotiable receipt of any of the terms herein required.
Page 115 - Amendment does not take from the State the power to classify in the adoption of police laws, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids what is done only when it is without any reasonable basis and therefore is purely arbitrary.
Page 145 - To avoid improper influences which may result from intermixing in one and the same act such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.
Page 1169 - Probable cause" has been defined as a reasonable ground of suspicion supported by circumstances sufficiently strong in themselves to warrant a cautious man in the belief that the person accused is guilty of the offense with which he is charged.
Page 505 - The rule of strictissimi juris is a stringent one, and is liable at times to work a practical injustice. It is one which ought not to be extended to contracts not within the reason -of the rule, particularly when the bond is underwritten by a corporation, which has undertaken for a profit to insure the obligee against a failure of performance on the part of the principal obligor.
Page 731 - ... no bill shall become a law, unless on its final passage the vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names of the persons voting for and against the same be entered on the journal, and a majority of the members elected to each House be recorded thereon as voting in its favor.
Page 121 - Company of due process of law and denied it the equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Page 115 - ... results in some inequality. "(3) When the classification in such a law is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, the existence of that state of facts, at the time the law was enacted, must be assumed.
Page 115 - When the classification in such a law is called in question, if any state of facts reasonably can be conceived that would sustain it, the existence of that state of facts at the time the law was enacted must be assumed. 4. One who assails the classification in such a law must carry the burden of showing that it does not rest upon any reasonable basis, but is essentially arbitrary.