The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volumen26Bancroft-Whitney, 1879 |
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... witness on the trial , and the confession was the ground of conviction . Crawshaw v . City of Roxbury , 7 Gray , 374 ... witnesses against the others . Held , that plaintiff was entitled to the reward . Louis- ville & Nashville R. R. Co ...
... witness on the trial , and the confession was the ground of conviction . Crawshaw v . City of Roxbury , 7 Gray , 374 ... witnesses against the others . Held , that plaintiff was entitled to the reward . Louis- ville & Nashville R. R. Co ...
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... witnesses in a crim- inal case declares : " Fourth . The defendant to testify in his own behalf , but if the defendant do not testify , his failure to do so shall not be com- mented upon , or referred to in the argument of the cause ...
... witnesses in a crim- inal case declares : " Fourth . The defendant to testify in his own behalf , but if the defendant do not testify , his failure to do so shall not be com- mented upon , or referred to in the argument of the cause ...
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... witness , in his own behalf , concerning matters material to the merits of the cause . In regard to the tes- timony ... witnesses . One interested will not usually be as honest and candid as one not so . ” In the case of Greer v . The ...
... witness , in his own behalf , concerning matters material to the merits of the cause . In regard to the tes- timony ... witnesses . One interested will not usually be as honest and candid as one not so . ” In the case of Greer v . The ...
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... witnesses as a class . It certainly does not follow , as a legal conclusion , that , because a person has an interest in the result of a suit , he will generally make a dishonest and uncandid witness . Like other witnesses , the ...
... witnesses as a class . It certainly does not follow , as a legal conclusion , that , because a person has an interest in the result of a suit , he will generally make a dishonest and uncandid witness . Like other witnesses , the ...
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... witness found the deceased standing on the floor in the room when he went in ; she seemed to be considerably dis- tressed and excited ; she was crying , and proceeded to tell those present the occurrence . The witness was asked to state ...
... witness found the deceased standing on the floor in the room when he went in ; she seemed to be considerably dis- tressed and excited ; she was crying , and proceeded to tell those present the occurrence . The witness was asked to state ...
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Página 398 - ... in every such action the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought...
Página 562 - And, with respect to such a visitor at least, we consider it settled law, that he, using reasonable care on his part for his own safety, is entitled to expect that the occupier shall on his part use reasonable care to prevent damage from unusual danger, which he knows or ought to know...
Página 397 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Página 35 - Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or other person, who shall be injured in person or property, or means of support, by any intoxicated person, or in consequence of the intoxication, habitual or otherwise, of any person...
Página 245 - Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is [consequently to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an Act of the Legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Página 722 - All the stockholders of every company incorporated under this act shall be severally individually liable to the creditors of the company in whicli they are stockholders to an amount equal to the amount of stock held by them respectively, for all debts and contracts made by such company, until the whole amount of capital stock fixed and limited by such company shall have been paid in, and a certificate thereof shall have been made and recorded as prescribed in the following section.
Página 736 - common carrier" has, therefore, been defined to be one who undertakes for hire or reward to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him from place to place.
Página 389 - it is undoubtedly settled law that a judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction upon a question directly involved in one suit is conclusive as to that question in another suit between the same parties. But to this operation of the judgment it must appear, either upon the face of the record or be shown by extrinsic evidence, that the precise question was raised and determined in the former suit.
Página 398 - That every such Action shall be for the Benefit of the Wife, Husband, Parent, and Child of the Person whose Death shall have been so caused...
Página 477 - Courts, inquire further: but if it did not profess to commit for a contempt, but for some matter appearing on the return, which could by no reasonable intendment be considered as a contempt of the Court committing, but a ground of commitment palpably and evidently arbitrary, unjust, and contrary to every principle of positive law, or...