Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 136Department of Purchase and Supply, 1924 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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accused action Affirmed aforesaid agent alleged amended appellant appellee application assignment authority automobile Bar.-In the instant bill of lading blue sky law carrier cause certificate charge Circuit Court claim Code Commission common law Commonwealth complainant construed contract contributory negligence corporation court instructs creditors decedent declaration decree deed of trust defendant company defendant's demurrage Director divorce draft effect election employee evidence fact Federal control fendant Gratt guilty held indorsers injury instructs the jury insulting words interstate commerce Interstate Commerce Commission intrastate judgment June 14 liability marriage ment negligence Norfolk notes paid parties payment person plaintiff bank plaintiff in error Princess Anne county proceeding punitive damages question railroad reason referred refused Richmond rule Statement statute stockholders suit Swan Syllabus tender testimony thereof tion trial court trucks verdict Virginia void Wytheville
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Page 394 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 249 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, 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 249 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
Page 249 - That no such employee who may be injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.
Page 341 - That carriers while under Federal control shall be subject to all laws and liabilities as common carriers, whether arising under State or Federal laws or at common law, except in so far as may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or any other Act applicable to such Federal control or with any order of the President.
Page 155 - Provided, however, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to the transportation of passengers or property, or to the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of property, wholly within one State, and not shipped to or from a foreign country from or to any State or Territory as aforesaid.
Page 42 - A check of itself does not operate as an assignment of any part of the funds to the credit of the drawer with the bank, and the bank is not liable to the holder, unless and until it accepts or certifies the check.
Page 147 - ... prescribe the rate, fare, or charge, or the maximum or minimum, or maximum and minimum, thereafter to be charged, and the classification, regulation, or practice thereafter to be observed, in such manner as, in its judgment, will remove such advantage, preference, prejudice, or discrimination.
Page 10 - That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.
Page 154 - In construing federal statutes enacted under the power conferred by the commerce clause of the Constitution the rule is that it should never be held that Congress intends to supersede or suspend the exercise of the reserved powers of a State, even where that may be done, unless, and except so far as, its purpose to do so is clearly manifested.