Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, Volume 243E.W. Stephens, 1913 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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adverse possession alleged amended petition answer appeal bank barber bill of exceptions Bohannan bond Caldwell county cause of action Chapin charge Cherry circuit court Circuit Court.-Hon Company Constitution contempt contract corporation counsel court erred court of equity decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer equity error evidence ex rel facts fendant filed fraud Goff ground habeas corpus Hickman Higgins Hines injury instruction Jesse Hickman Judge judgment jurisdiction jury land Lipscomb Louis Louisiana Purchase Exposition Lumber ment Missouri mortgage motion negligence opinion parties person plaintiff pleaded probate proof prosecutrix purchase question quiet title Railroad real estate reason recited record proper refused res adjudicata respondent Revised Statutes 1909 rule sheriff's deed Statute of Limitations suit sustained Talbott Taylor City Belt testified testimony thereof tiff tion Tower Grove Park trial court trust United Railways verdict wire witness writ
Popular passages
Page 556 - To constitute notice of an infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same, the person to whom it is negotiated must have had actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge of such facts that his action in taking the instrument amounted to bad faith.
Page 402 - A contract of two or more competent persons, to place their money, effects, labor and skill, or some or all of them, in lawful commerce or business, and to divide the profit and bear the loss in certain proportions.
Page 223 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable.
Page 163 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Page 76 - Every railroad corporation owning or operating a railroad in this state shall be liable for all damages sustained by any agent or servant thereof...
Page 68 - The court shall, in every stage of an action, disregard any error or defect in the pleadings, or proceedings, which shall not affect the substantial rights of the parties ; and no judgment shall be reversed or affected by reason of such error or defect.
Page 69 - The Supreme Court, or Courts of Appeal shall not reverse the judgment of any court, unless it shall believe that error was committed by such court against the appellant or plaintiff in error, and materially affecting the merits of the action.
Page 136 - ... the proof of the contract as pleaded must be such as to leave no reasonable doubt in the mind of the chancellor...
Page 826 - We may lay it down as a broad general principle, that, wherever one of two innocent persons must suffer by the acts of a third, he who has enabled such third person to occasion the loss must sustain it.
Page 712 - That no law shall be passed impairing the freedom of speech; that every person shall be free to speak, write or publish whatever he will on any subject, being responsible for all abuse of that liberty...