The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volumen56Bancroft-Whitney, 1887 |
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... jury suffered by the plaintiff , nor is it any answer to the action , that it exercises all practicable care in its management . It may have the right which it claims ' to acquire lands by purchase for the accommodation of its business ...
... jury suffered by the plaintiff , nor is it any answer to the action , that it exercises all practicable care in its management . It may have the right which it claims ' to acquire lands by purchase for the accommodation of its business ...
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... jury , in favor of the defendants . The qualifying words " not at a subsequent time , " correctly restricted the inquiry of the jury , in assessing the damages , to the price of coal at the time of the breach . To permit a departure ...
... jury , in favor of the defendants . The qualifying words " not at a subsequent time , " correctly restricted the inquiry of the jury , in assessing the damages , to the price of coal at the time of the breach . To permit a departure ...
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... jury to find for the defendants , if they believed that the collector was actually robbed ; that he was in the discharge of his duty , and exercised both care and prudence in the management and safe keeping of the money , as a prudent ...
... jury to find for the defendants , if they believed that the collector was actually robbed ; that he was in the discharge of his duty , and exercised both care and prudence in the management and safe keeping of the money , as a prudent ...
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... jury a vast mass of evidence relating to the renting of the premises by the plaintiffs , which was not relevant to any issue then before the jury . To have carried out the trial Judge's view , the court should also have withdrawn the ...
... jury a vast mass of evidence relating to the renting of the premises by the plaintiffs , which was not relevant to any issue then before the jury . To have carried out the trial Judge's view , the court should also have withdrawn the ...
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... jury . Assuming the answers to the questions propounded to defendant would have disclosed criminal conduct on his part , it was his privilege to de- cline to answer , and his refusal could not have been made the basis of any prosecution ...
... jury . Assuming the answers to the questions propounded to defendant would have disclosed criminal conduct on his part , it was his privilege to de- cline to answer , and his refusal could not have been made the basis of any prosecution ...
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Página 364 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Página 881 - ... shall not be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, either before or after receipt by the beneficiary.
Página 464 - ... death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Página 594 - person' may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate as well as to individuals.
Página 716 - The General Assembly shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following enumerated cases, that is to say : Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of the peace and of constables; For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors...
Página 95 - We think that the true rule of law is, that the person who for his own purposes brings on his lands and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril, and, if he does not do so is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Página 54 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been...
Página 121 - 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 and delivery, or for nondelivery, of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Página 54 - ... the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Página 527 - Provided, that in actions where one of the original parties to the contract or cause of action in issue and on trial is dead...