The South Western Reporter, Volume 167West Publishing Company, 1914 - Law reports, digests, etc Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas. |
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... corporation was formed by persons for the express pur- pose of buying the lands at the same price for which they were purchased under the agreement under consideration ; that John- son , Rolfe , and the other incorporators had full ...
... corporation was formed by persons for the express pur- pose of buying the lands at the same price for which they were purchased under the agreement under consideration ; that John- son , Rolfe , and the other incorporators had full ...
Page 113
... corporation organized for profit , and not an eleemosynary corporation , or cor- poration organized for general welfare . Ward Seminary has for many years been conducted as a boarding school for girls , and has become quite a famous ...
... corporation organized for profit , and not an eleemosynary corporation , or cor- poration organized for general welfare . Ward Seminary has for many years been conducted as a boarding school for girls , and has become quite a famous ...
Page 114
... corporations . Such classification must have some natural and reasonable basis . No reason whatever has been suggested for a discrimination between an individual and a corporation for profit , both engaged in educational work , and any ...
... corporations . Such classification must have some natural and reasonable basis . No reason whatever has been suggested for a discrimination between an individual and a corporation for profit , both engaged in educational work , and any ...
Page 115
... corporation on the one hand and a private corporation or in- dividual on the other rests on a sound basis . This contention is plausible , but such an interpretation of the act would subject to taxation all school property in the state ...
... corporation on the one hand and a private corporation or in- dividual on the other rests on a sound basis . This contention is plausible , but such an interpretation of the act would subject to taxation all school property in the state ...
Page 117
... corporation , cre- ated by the Legislature , and that , since com- plainant is such a corporation , it is entitled to claim immunity in this case under Act 1907 , c . 602 , quoted above , in which the phraseology is somewhat similar to ...
... corporation , cre- ated by the Legislature , and that , since com- plainant is such a corporation , it is entitled to claim immunity in this case under Act 1907 , c . 602 , quoted above , in which the phraseology is somewhat similar to ...
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Page 149 - A negotiable promissory note within the meaning of this, act is an unconditional promise in writing made by one person to another signed by the maker engaging to pay on demand, or at a fixed or determined future time, a sum certain- in money to order, or to bearer.
Page 116 - All property shall be taxed according to its value ; that value to be ascertained in such manner as the legislature shall direct, so that the same shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. No one species of property from which a tax may be collected, shall be taxed higher than any other species of property of equal value.
Page 335 - This entire policy shall be void if the insured has concealed or misrepresented, in writing or otherwise, any material fact or circumstance concerning this insurance or the subject thereof...
Page 249 - There must be reasonable evidence of negligence ; but where the thing is shown to be under the management of the defendant or his servants, and the accident is such as in the ordinary course of things does not happen if those who have the management use the proper care, it affords reasonable evidence, in the absence of explanation by the defendant, that the accident arose from want of care.
Page 139 - ... before or at the time of incurring such indebtedness provision shall be made for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due, and also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof, within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 114 - Knowledge, learning and virtue, being essential to the preservation of republican institutions, and the diffusion of the opportunities and advantages of education throughout the different portions of the state, being highly conducive to the promotion of this end, it shall be the duty of the general assembly in all future periods of this government, to cherish literature and science.
Page 399 - Commissioners, in addition to the levy made for the maintenance of the schools as hereinbefore provided, to levy annually in its tax levy a rate that will raise a sum that shall be sufficient to pay the interest and create a sinking fund for the payment of the bonds at maturity.
Page 113 - All property, real, personal, or mixed, shall be taxed, but the Legislature may except such as may be held by the State, by counties, cities, or towns, and used exclusively for public or corporation purposes, and such as may be held and used for purposes purely religious, charitable, scientific, literary, or educational, and shall except one thousand dollars...
Page 364 - ... of the State, and exempt from the operation of such laws other portions, sections or counties; and shall have power to pass general and special laws for the inspection of cattle, stock and hides, and for the regulation of bran'ds; provided, that any local law thus passed shall be submitted to the freeholders of the section to be affected thereby, and approved by them before it shall go into effect.
Page 335 - ... in case of any fraud or false swearing by the insured touching any matter relating to this insurance or the subject thereof, whether before or after a loss.