The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 18Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1891 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 837 - ... a secretary who may or may not be a member of the board, and a health officer who shall not be a member of the board.
Page 866 - Constitution gives the citizens of each State all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States...
Page 222 - It may be issued by any court except police or justice's courts, to an inferior tribunal or to a corporation, board, or person, in all cases where there is not a plain, speedy and adequate remedy in the ordinary course of law.
Page 275 - Part further covenants and agrees to merchandise such wheat in foreign ports, it being understood and agreed between the Party of the First Part and the Party of the Second Part...
Page 779 - ... it must appear by the record of the prior suit that the particular controversy sought to be concluded was necessarily tried and determined...
Page 779 - Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause, and whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is regarded as binding in every other court. But, if it act without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void.
Page 528 - It only appears that at the time of the accident, and for some time prior thereto, the defendant...
Page 317 - The drawers and indorsers severally waive presentment for payment, protest and notice of protest, and nonpayment of this note...
Page 63 - the court erred in overruling a motion for a new trial...
Page 504 - As a creditors' bill, in the ordinary sense, the complaint is manifestly insufficient. The thresher company, however, plants itself upon the so-called "trust-fund" doctrine .that the capital stock of a corporation is a trust fund for the payment of its debts; its contention being that such a