The Southern Reporter, Volume 47West Publishing Company, 1909 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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action adverse possession affidavit Affirmed agent alleged Appeal from Circuit appellee authority aver bill Bolivar County bond cause Cent chancellor chancery court charge Circuit Court claim Code complainant concur contract contributory negligence conveyance corporation Coun counsel Court of Alabama court of equity damages debt deceased decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer detinue Duval county entitled equity error evidence execution executor fact fendant filed HARALSON held indictment injury intent intestate issue Judge judgment June June 18 jurisdiction jury land liable lien Manatee county ment Miss mortgage motion negligence Note.-For overruling parties passenger Pell City person petition plaintiff plea possession premium bonds proof purchase question quiet title reason record rendered respondent Reversed and remanded rule South statute suit Supreme Court sustained testified testimony thereof tion trial court TYSON witness
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Page 11 - What is reasonable doubt?" Shaw asked.55 It is a term often used, probably pretty well understood, but not easily denned. It is not mere possible doubt; because everything relating to human affairs, and depending on moral evidence, is open to some possible or imaginary doubt. It is that state of the case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty,...
Page 279 - Where, after the commencement of this act, personal injury is caused to a workman (1) By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant connected with or used in the business of the employer...
Page 433 - Act, or of any amendments thereto, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture...
Page 308 - No local or special bill shall be passed, unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall have been published in the locality where the matter or thing to be affected may be situated, which notice shall be...
Page 93 - It will not decree a specific performance of contracts which by their terms stipulate for a succession of acts, whose performance cannot be consummated by one transaction, but will be continuous, and require protracted supervision and direction...
Page 249 - Under sub-section one of section one, unless the defect therein mentioned arose from, or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer, or of some person in the service of the employer, and entrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant were in proper condition.
Page 150 - ... 1. By reason of any defect in the condition of the ways, works, machinery, or plant, connected with or used in the business of the employer which arose from or had not been discovered or remedied owing to the negligence of the employer or of any person in the service of the employer and intrusted by him with the duty of seeing that the ways, works, machinery, or plant, were in proper condition; 2.
Page 53 - When a public offense is committed on the boundary of two or more counties, or within five hundred yards thereof, the jurisdiction is in either county.
Page 309 - No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended, or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be reenacted, and published at length.
Page 65 - Facility of Payment" clause in the policy which provided that, "The company may make any payment provided for in this policy to any relative by blood or connection by marriage of the insured, or to any other person appearing to said company to be equitably entitled to the same by reason of having incurred expense on behalf of the insured, for his or her burial, or, if the insured be more than fifteen years of age at the date of this policy, for any other purpose...