Arkansas Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, at the ..., Volume 129Woodruff Print. Company, 1918 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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accord and satisfaction adverse possession affirmed agent alleged amount appellant appellant's appellee appellee's application Arkansas assessment attorney authority bank bill of exceptions Blacknall Bright's disease Burel Cady cause of action chancellor Chancery Court charge Circuit Court claim complaint contract contributory negligence counsel court erred decree deed defendant demurrer Dennie Carter directors district duty Emma Smith equity error evidence executed facts favor filed fraud Frazer heirs held injury instructions interest issue Judge judgment jury Kirby's Digest land liability lien Lumber ment mortgage motion negligence Opinion delivered June paid parties payment Phillips County plaintiff pleadings proof purchase question Rainwater refused rendered reversed rule Sebastian County Smith sold statement statute statute of limitations stockholders suit supra testified testimony tion train trust verdict Vestal W. H. Evans witness
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Page 368 - The trustee of the estate of a bankrupt, upon his appointment and qualification, and his successor or successors, if he shall have one or more, upon his or their appointment and qualification, shall in turn be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt...
Page 368 - ... property which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him...
Page 436 - To exercise by its board of directors or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking...
Page 123 - ... of the record in said cause, setting forth so much thereof as is necessary to a full understanding of all the questions presented to this court for decision...
Page 537 - In these instructions the trial judge evidently adopted the same measure of responsibility respecting the character and safe condition of the place of work, and the appliances for the doing of the work, that is prescribed by the local statute. But it is settled that since Congress, by the act of 1908, took possession of the field of the employer's liability to employees in interstate transportation by rail, all state laws upon the subject are superseded.
Page 190 - Every male citizen of the United States, or male person who has declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the same, of the age of twenty-one years, who has resided in the state twelve months, and in the county six months, and in the voting precinct or ward one month, next preceding any election, where he may propose to vote, shall be entitled to vote at all elections by the people.
Page 20 - Each installment is to bear interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum from maturity until paid.
Page 519 - ... they are entitled to place themselves in the same situation as the parties who made the contract, so as to view the circumstances as they viewed them, and so to judge of the meaning of the words and of the correct application of the language to the things described.
Page 251 - The present capacity of taking effect in possession, if the possession were to become vacant, and not the certainty that the possession will become vacant, before the estate limited in remainder determines, universally distinguishes a vested remainder from one that is contingent.
Page 252 - A remainder is vested in interest where the person is in being and ascertained, who will, if he lives, have an absolute and immediate right to the possession of the land upon the ceasing or failure of all the precedent estates...