Department Reports of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Containing the Decisions, Reports, Opinions, and Rulings of the Various Departments of State, Etc, Volum 2

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Side 342 - A person shall be deemed to have given a preference if, being insolvent, he has procured or suffered a judgment to be entered against himself in favor of any person, or made a transfer of- any of his property, and the effect of the enforcement of such judgment or transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such creditors of the same class.
Side 31 - Every person in the service of another under any contract of hire...
Side 68 - States, and their immunity from suit by attachment, and deprives them of their property without due process of law, and denies them the equal protection of the laws.
Side 420 - That whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default Is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Side 855 - Income accumulated in trust for the benefit of unborn or unascertained persons or persons with contingent interests, and income accumulated or held for future distribution under the terms of the will or trust...
Side 838 - The plaintiff sought to recover the value of such work as an item of damages, but the court held that the measure of damages was the difference between the value of the oxen at the time of the conversion and their value at the time they were retaken by the plaintiff.
Side 343 - It Is not enough that a creditor has some cause to suspect the Insolvency of his debtor; but he must have such a knowledge of facts as to induce a 'reasonable belief of his debtor's insolvency, In order to Invalidate a security taken for his debt...
Side 371 - The fundamental principle of law upon which damages for breach of contract are assessed is that the injured party shall be placed in the same position he would have been in, if the contract had been performed...
Side 725 - States, or a judge or the judges thereof, in any case between an employer and employees, or between employers and employees, or between employees, or between persons employed and persons seeking employment, involving or growing out of a dispute concerning terms or conditions of employment, unless necessary to prevent irreparable injury to property or to a property right...
Side 89 - The de facto doctrine was Introduced into the law as a matter of policy and necessity, to protect the interests of the public and Individuals, where those interests were inTOlved in the official acts of persons exercising the duties of an office, without being lawful officers.

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