Wisconsin Reports, Volume 161Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frederick C. Seibold, Arnold LeBell Callaghan and Company, 1916 - Law reports, digests, etc Cases determined in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. |
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Page 364 - Where, in effect, it determines the action and prevents a judgment from which an appeal might be taken.
Page 220 - We have repeatedly held that no State has the right. to lay a tax on interstate commerce in any form, whether by way of duties laid on the transportation of the subjects of that commerce, or on the receipts derived from that transportation, or on the occupation or business of carrying it on, for the reason that taxation is a burden on that commerce, and amounts to a regulation of it, which belongs solely to Congress.
Page 589 - estate" and "property" as used in this Act shall be taken to mean the real and personal property or interest therein of the testator, intestate, grantor, bargainer, vendor, or donor passing or transferred to individual legatees, devisees, heirs, next of kin, grantees, donees, vendees, or successors, and shall include all personal property within or without the state. The word "transfer...
Page 594 - ... in its discretion, and upon such terms as may be just, at any time within one year after notice thereof, relieve a party from a judgment, order or other proceeding, taken against him through his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable neglect...
Page 503 - No. 4. You are instructed that every person has the right to act in his own necessary self-defense, and where a person is in a place where he has a right to be, and is not the aggressor...
Page 263 - What is a reasonable return is a question of fact, the solution of which calls for the exercise of sound judgment and common sense.
Page 500 - ... to the owner thereof, without proving notice to the owner or possessor of such dog, or knowledge by him that his dog was mischievous or disposed to kill sheep or angora goats.
Page 221 - The corporate franchises, the property, the business, the income of corporations created by a State may undoubtedly be taxed by the State; but in imposing such taxes care should be taken not to interfere with or hamper, directly or by indirection, interstate or foreign commerce, or any other matter exclusively •within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government.
Page 480 - ... to the effect that they are bound in the amount mentioned in the order of arrest, that the defendant shall at all times render himself amenable to the process of the court during the pendency of the action, and to such as may be issued to enforce the judgment therein...
Page 83 - State court for the removal of the suit into the next circuit court of the United States to be held in the district where the suit is pending...