Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Tennessee, Volumen92Soule, Thomas, and Winsor, 1893 |
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... dollars , at First National Bank , Chattanooga , Tenn . Value received . 25 100 " If suit is brought upon this note , we agree to pay five per cent . attorney's fees , and costs of collection . " ( Signed ) LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN HOTEL Co ...
... dollars , at First National Bank , Chattanooga , Tenn . Value received . 25 100 " If suit is brought upon this note , we agree to pay five per cent . attorney's fees , and costs of collection . " ( Signed ) LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN HOTEL Co ...
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... dollars in permanent improve- ment of the mines . Twenty - five hundred dollars was paid in cash , and for the remainder notes were executed , maturing at different dates . Complainant and one Line , the secretary of represent that the ...
... dollars in permanent improve- ment of the mines . Twenty - five hundred dollars was paid in cash , and for the remainder notes were executed , maturing at different dates . Complainant and one Line , the secretary of represent that the ...
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... dollars . The railroad company appealed in error . The administrator brought the suit under Code ( M. & V. ) , § 3130 , " for the use and benefit of the widow and children " of his intestate . The declaration was filed October 29 , 1890 ...
... dollars . The railroad company appealed in error . The administrator brought the suit under Code ( M. & V. ) , § 3130 , " for the use and benefit of the widow and children " of his intestate . The declaration was filed October 29 , 1890 ...
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... dollars . The defendant certainly was not entitled to more , either under the pleadings or the proof with reference to the alleged compromise . Most of the other assignments relate to the action of the trial Judge in refusing to submit ...
... dollars . The defendant certainly was not entitled to more , either under the pleadings or the proof with reference to the alleged compromise . Most of the other assignments relate to the action of the trial Judge in refusing to submit ...
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... dollars , evidenced by a certain loan note , and secured by mortgage on real estate . The Chancellor heard the cause finally on plead- ings , exhibits , and an agreed statement of facts . From his decree both parties have appealed . It ...
... dollars , evidenced by a certain loan note , and secured by mortgage on real estate . The Chancellor heard the cause finally on plead- ings , exhibits , and an agreed statement of facts . From his decree both parties have appealed . It ...
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Página 442 - The taking, receiving, reserving, or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done, shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill, or other evidence of debt carries with it, or which has been agreed to be paid thereon.
Página 422 - It is a familiar rule, that a thing may be within the letter of the statute and yet not within the statute, because not within its spirit, nor within the intention of its makers.
Página 423 - All laws should receive a sensible construction. General terms should be so limited in their application as not to lead to injustice, oppression, or an absurd consequence.
Página 168 - No corporation shall be created by special laws, or its charter extended, changed or amended, except those for charitable, educational, penal or reformatory purposes, which are to be and remain under the patronage and control of the state, but the general assembly shall provide, by general laws, for the organization of all corporations hereafter to be created.
Página 178 - We may now take it for granted that the dealings with these companies are not like dealings with other partnerships, and that the parties dealing with them are bound to read the statute and the deed of settlement. But they are not bound to do more. And the party here, on reading the deed of settlement, would find, not a prohibition from borrowing, but a permission *to do so on certain conditions.
Página 336 - The duties and powers of the officers or Nashville ?'. Sutherland & Co. public agents of the corporation are prescribed by statute or charter, which all persons not only may know, but are bound to know. The opposite doctrine would be fraught with such danger and accompanied with such abuse that it would soon end in the ruin of municipalities or be legislatively overthrown.
Página 119 - ... conferred upon it by the legislature, is not voidable only, but wholly void, and of no legal effect. The objection to the contract is, not merely that the corporation ought not to have made it, but that it could not make it. The contract cannot be ratified by either party, because it could not have been authorized by either. No performance on either side can give the unlawful contract any validity, or be the foundation of any right of action upon it.
Página 88 - Legislature, nor shall the seat of justice of any county be removed without the concurrence of two-thirds of the qualified voters of the county. But the foregoing provision requiring a two-thirds majority of the voters of a county to remove its county seat shall not apply to the counties of Obion and Cocke. The fractions taken from old counties to form new counties, or taken from one county and added to another, shall continue liable for their...
Página 60 - Equity regards the property of a corporation as held in trust for the payment of the debts of the corporation, and recognizes the right of creditors to pursue it into whosesoever possession it may be transferred, unless it has passed into the hands of a bona fide purchaser...
Página 441 - And when no rate is fixed by the laws of the State or territory, the bank may take, receive, reserve, or charge a rate not exceeding seven per centum, and such interest may be taken in advance, reckoning the days for which the note, bill, or other evidence of debt has to run.