The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 178West Publishing Company, 1915 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adverse possession affirmed alleged amended APPEAL AND ERROR appellant appellant's appellee authority bank bill of exceptions bond carrier cause of action Cent charge circuit court claim Company contract contributory negligence corporation counsel court of equity CRIMINAL LAW damages deceased deed of trust defendant defendant's demurrer Digests and Indexes evidence ex rel executed fact fendant filed freight held indictment injury instruction issue Jasper county Judge judgment jury Kansas City Key-Numbered Digests land Louis Lumber mandamus ment Missouri motion negligence Note.-For opinion paid parties passenger person petition plaintiff pleadings prosecution question railroad Railway reason record recover refused rule statute street suit supra Supreme Court testified testimony therein thereof tiff timber tion topic and KEY-NUMBER track train trial court verdict W. A. Cocke wife witness
Popular passages
Page 212 - An instrument is negotiated when it is transferred from one person to another in such manner as to constitute the transferee the holder thereof. If payable to bearer it is negotiated by delivery ; if payable to order it is negotiated by the indorsement of the holder completed by delivery.
Page 251 - This company shall not be liable beyond the actual cash value of the property at the time any loss or damage occurs, and the loss or damage shall be ascertained or estimated according to such actual cash value, with proper deduction for (2) depreciation however caused, and shall in no event exceed what it would then cost the insured to repair or replace the same with material of like kind and quality...
Page 188 - Any city containing a population of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the Constitution and laws of this State...
Page 258 - ... vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt, as of the date he was adjudged a bankrupt...
Page 236 - That the jury, on the trial of any issue or on any inquisition of damages, may, if they shall think fit, give damages in the nature of interest over and above the value of the goods at the time of the conversion or seizure...
Page 135 - The defendant may demur to the complaint within the time required in the summons to answer, when it appears upon the face thereof, either— 1. That the court has no jurisdiction of the person of the defendant, or the subject of the action ; or, 2.
Page 41 - It is a part of every man's civil rights that he be left at liberty to refuse business relations with any person whomsoever, whether the refusal rests upon reason, or is the result of whim, caprice, prejudice, or malice.
Page 289 - an executor or administrator is a party, the other party shall not be admitted to testify in his own favor...
Page 373 - An act to confer jurisdiction upon the Court of (Maims to hear, audit and determine the claim of Frank A. Hall of Canandaigua for damages for injuries to property alleged to have been sustained by him through the negligence of the State, its officers, agents and employees...
Page 248 - The case was tried before the court and a jury, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, for $20,000, for which amount, with costs, he had judgment.