The Southwestern Reporter, Volum 191West Publishing Company, 1917 |
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acres action ADVERSE POSSESSION affirmed agent alleged amount APPEAL AND ERROR appellant appellant's appellee assignment attorney Bank bill bill of lading cause Cent certiorari chancery court charge circuit court claim contract corporation Cotulla Court of Appeals Culberson county damages death deed deed of trust defendant demurrer Digests and Indexes district entitled evidence executed fact fendant filed Gus Johnson heirs held injunction injury interest issue judge judgment jurisdiction jury Key-Numbered Digests land Law Rep liability lien ment mortgage motion Note.-For opinion paid parties payment person petition plaintiff pleadings possession purchase question quitclaim deed railroad Railway reason record recover refused rule sourwood statute suit Tenn testator testified testimony thereof tion topic and KEY-NUMBER tract trial court trust usury verdict witness
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Side 440 - This entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto, shall be void * * * if the interest of the insured be other than unconditional and sole ownership; or if the subject of insurance be a building on ground not owned by the insured in fee simple...
Side 292 - ... actually misled the adverse party, to his prejudice, in maintaining his action or defense, upon the merits. Whenever it...
Side 213 - It is an instrument of a twofold character. It is at once a receipt and a contract. In the former character it is an acknowledgment of the receipt of property on board his vessel by the owner of the vessel. In the latter it is a contract to carry safely and deliver. The receipt of the goods lies at the foundation of the contract to carry and deliver. If no goods are actually received, there can be no valid contract to carry or to deliver.
Side 407 - ... courts, except in clear cases, to interfere with the exercise of the power reposed by law in municipal corporations for the protection of local rights and the health and welfare of the people in the community.
Side 189 - That in actions by or against executors, administrators or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto by the court.
Side 415 - If a corporation cannot maintain such a highway and earn dividends for stockholders. It Is a misfortune for It and them which the constitution does not require to be remedied by imposing unjust burdens upon the public.
Side 318 - The objection that a contract is immoral or illegal as between plaintiff and defendant, sounds at all times very ill in the mouth of the defendant. It is not for his sake, however, that the objection is ever allowed; but it is founded in general principles of policy which the defendant has the advantage of, contrary to the real justice as between him and the plaintiff, by accident, if I may eay so. The principle of public policy is this, ex dolo malo non oritur actio.
Side 112 - Before we conclude, it may be proper to observe,that whenever a greater estate and a less coincide and meet in one and the same person, without any intermediate estate, the less is immediately annihilated, or, in the law phrase, is said to be merged, that is, sunk or drowned in the greater.
Side 347 - In this action the plaintiff must recover on the strength of his own title, not on the weakness of that of his adversary.
Side 257 - A statement of the acts constituting the offense, in ordinary and concise language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended.