Mississippi Reports ... Being Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, Volume 107E.W. Stephens Publishing Company, 1916 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Judge . Suit by the American Funding Corporation against A. J. Pennington . From a judgment for defendant , plain- tiff appeals . The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court . Baskin & Wilbourn and W. C. Sams , for appellant ...
... Judge . Suit by the American Funding Corporation against A. J. Pennington . From a judgment for defendant , plain- tiff appeals . The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court . Baskin & Wilbourn and W. C. Sams , for appellant ...
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... Judge . Petition for mandamus by Harry McClurg Brothers Company against Sunflower county and others . From an order granting the writ , respondent appeals . This suit was begun by petition in the circuit court for writ of mandamus to ...
... Judge . Petition for mandamus by Harry McClurg Brothers Company against Sunflower county and others . From an order granting the writ , respondent appeals . This suit was begun by petition in the circuit court for writ of mandamus to ...
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... judge cannot however ignore the division of time , when to do so would deprive a party to a lawsuit of any substantial right . ON SUGGESTION OF ERROR . CORPORATIONS . Liability of directors . Debts in excess of capital stock . Code 1906 ...
... judge cannot however ignore the division of time , when to do so would deprive a party to a lawsuit of any substantial right . ON SUGGESTION OF ERROR . CORPORATIONS . Liability of directors . Debts in excess of capital stock . Code 1906 ...
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... judge cannot ignore the division of time , when to do so would deprive a party to a law suit of any substantial right . Affirmed . ON SUGGESTION OF ERROR . It is suggested that , to maintain the original opinion in this cause , it will ...
... judge cannot ignore the division of time , when to do so would deprive a party to a law suit of any substantial right . Affirmed . ON SUGGESTION OF ERROR . It is suggested that , to maintain the original opinion in this cause , it will ...
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... Judge . Suit by J. L. Criscoe against the Postal Telegraph Company . From a judgment for plaintiff , defendant ap- peals . Appellee was endeavoring to secure families of labor- ers for A. E. Jennings and E. J. Marley , for tenants on ...
... Judge . Suit by J. L. Criscoe against the Postal Telegraph Company . From a judgment for plaintiff , defendant ap- peals . Appellee was endeavoring to secure families of labor- ers for A. E. Jennings and E. J. Marley , for tenants on ...
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Page 542 - ... transported Into any State or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale or storage therein, shall upon arrival In such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquids or liquors had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein In original packages or...
Page 641 - That any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, under the laws of any State in this Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Page 537 - ... intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Page vi - First District, Second District, - - Third District, Fourth District, Fifth District, Sixth District, Seventh District, Eighth District, - - ' Ninth District, Tenth District, Eleventh District...
Page 285 - ... fail to appear, the court may declare him barred of all claim in respect to the subject of the action against the defendant therein.
Page 549 - It is not necessary, for the sake of justifying the State legislation now under consideration, to array the appalling statistics of misery, pauperism and crime which have their origin in the use or abuse of ardent spirits. The police power, which is exclusively in the States, is alone competent to the correction of these great evils, and all measures of restraint or prohibition necessary to effect the purpose are within the scope of that authority.
Page 549 - There is no inherent right in a citizen to thus sell intoxicating liquors by retail; it is not a privilege of a citizen of the state or of a citizen of the United States. As it is a business attended with danger to the community it may, as already said, be entirely prohibited, or be permitted under such conditions as will limit to the utmost its evils. The manner and extent of regulation rest in the discretion of the governing authority.
Page 546 - The power vested in Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes...
Page 549 - There Is no justification for holding that the state, under the guise merely of police regulations, is here aiming to deprive the citizen of his constitutional rights; for we cannot shut out of view the fact within the knowledge of all that the public health, the public morals, and the public safety may be endangered by the general use of intoxicating drinks; nor the fact, established by statistics accessible to every one, that the idleness, disorder, pauperism, and crime existing in the country...
Page 195 - The inviolability of the person is as much invaded by a compulsory stripping and exposure as by a blow. To compel any one, and especially a woman, to lay bare the body, or to submit it to the touch of a stranger, without lawful authority, is an indignity, an assault and a trespass...