Minnesota Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota, Volume 149

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Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
 

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Page 154 - When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, lie in effect grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public, for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 195 - In the heat of passion, but in a cruel and unusual manner, or by means of a dangerous weapon.
Page 116 - ... dismissed, the appellant will pay the amount directed to be paid by the judgment...
Page 299 - In all other cases, the defendant may be found guilty of any offense the commission of which is necessarily included in that with which he is charged in the indictment
Page 409 - Provided, that nothing in this section shall deprive any holder of such receipt or bill of lading of any remedy or right of action which he has under existing law.
Page 35 - It says that whenever a party who, as actor, seeks to set the judicial machinery in motion and obtain some remedy, has violated conscience or good faith, or other equitable principle, in his prior conduct, then the doors of the court will be shut against him in limine ; the court will refuse to interfere in his behalf, to acknowledge his right, or to award him any remedy.
Page 169 - One is bound to anticipate and provide against what usually happens and what is likely to happen ; but it would impose too heavy a responsibility to hold him bound in like manner to guard against what is unusual and unlikely to happen, or what, as it is sometimes said, is only remotely and slightly probable.
Page 168 - What a man may reasonably anticipate is important, and may be decisive, in determining whether an act is negligent, but is not at all decisive in determining whether that act is the proximate cause of an injury which ensues. If a person had no reasonable ground to anticipate that a particular act would or might result in any injury to anybody, then, of course, the act would not be negligent at all...
Page 169 - Is that a person guilty of negligence should be held responsible for all the consequences which a prudent and experienced man, fully acquainted with all the circumstances which In fact existed, whether they could have been ascertained by reasonable diligence or not, would, at the time of the negligent act, have thought reasonably possible to follow, If they had occurred to his mind.
Page 147 - The object of elections is to ascertain the popular will and not to thwart it. The object of election laws i8 to secure the rights of duly qualified electors, and not to defeat them.

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