The Nebraska Synoptical Digest: A Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Nebraska Comp. from Volumes 1 to 80 Nebraska Reports and Volumes 1 to 5 Nebraska Reports (unofficial) Inclusive with Complete Tables of Cases Cited and Overruled ...Jefferson Hoover Broady, D. A. Haggard, D. Avery Haggard State journal Company, 1914 |
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Page 110 - A holder in due course is a holder who has taken the instrument under the following conditions: — 1. That it is complete and regular upon its face; 2. That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact; 3.
Page 235 - 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, of the truth of the charge.
Page 665 - To entitle a party to a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence...
Page 315 - Where a party gives a reason for his conduct and decision touching anything involved in a controversy, he cannot, after litigation has begun, change his ground, and put his conduct upon another and a different consideration. He is not permitted thus to mend his hold. He Is estopped from doing it by a settled principle of law.
Page 510 - It is a finality as to the claim or demand in controversy, concluding parties and those in privity with them, not only as to every matter which was offered and received to sustain or defeat the claim or demand, but as to any other admissible matter which might have been offered for that purpose.
Page 574 - ... any of Its officers, agents, or employees, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency due to Its negligence in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, ways, or works.
Page 139 - ... or the bondholders any interest on their loans, they should be fully advised as to what is done with the receipts and earnings of the company, for if so advised it might clearly appear that a prudent and honest management would, within the rates prescribed, secure to the bondholders their interest and to the stockholders reasonable dividends.
Page 64 - The court, in every stage of an action, must disregard any error or defect in the pleadings or proceedings, which does not affect the substantial rights of the adverse party ; and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.
Page 210 - An act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected, and delinquent children...
Page 162 - The legislature cannot delegate its power to make a law; but it can make a law to delegate a power to determine some fact or state of things upon which the law makes, or intends to make, its own action depend.