Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Washington, Volume 109Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1920 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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action affirmative defense affirmed agreement alleged amount appellant appellant's automobile claim Code Company complaint concur contended contract contributory negligence corporation counsel court for King damages December 17 decree deed defendant entered error evidence fact favor filed German-American Bank Gordon guaranty homestead injury January January 12 judgment jury King county land lant ment mortgage negligence Opinion Per BRIDGES Opinion Per FULLERTON Opinion Per HOLCOMB Opinion Per MACKINTOSH Opinion Per MAIN Opinion Per MITCHELL Opinion Per MOUNT Opinion Per PARKER Opinion Per TOLMAN paid parties payment person petition Pierce county plaintiff prior purchase purpose question quitclaim deed reason recover refrigerator cars refused Reported in 186 respondent respondent's rule school district Seattle Spokane Spokane county statute street superior court testified testimony thereof tion tract trial court verdict warranty Wash Whatcom County wife Yakima county
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Page 216 - If there was such proof, whether there was, upon all the evidence, such a preponderance of proof, against the existence of any of those facts, that the verdict of a jury, affirming the existence thereof, rendered in an action in the supreme court, triable by a jury, would be set aside by the court, as against the weight of evidence.
Page 315 - The acceptor by accepting the instrument engages that he will pay it according to the tenor of his acceptance ; and admits — 1. The existence of the drawer, the genuineness of his signature, and his capacity and authority to draw the instrument; and 2. The existence of the payee and his then capacity to indorse.
Page 402 - It must now be regarded as settled that, on account of their well-known noxious qualities and the extraordinary evils shown by experience commonly to be consequent upon their use...
Page 322 - And, in addition, he engages that on due presentment, it shall be accepted or paid, or both, as the case may be, according to its tenor, and that if it be dishonored, and the necessary proceedings on dishonor be duly taken, he will pay the amount thereof to the holder, or to any subsequent indorser who may be compelled to pay it.
Page 157 - Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, nor comment thereon, but shall declare the law.
Page 53 - The power of taxation, however vast in its character and searching in its extent, is necessarily limited to subjects within the jurisdiction of the State. These subjects are persons, property, and business. Whatever form taxation may assume, whether as duties, imposts, excises, or licenses, it must relate to one of these subjects. It is not possible to conceive of any other, though as applied to them, the taxation may be exercised in a great variety of ways.
Page 654 - If, when the unconstitutional portion is stricken out, that which remains is complete in itself, and capable of being executed in accordance with the apparent legislative intent, wholly independent of that which was rejected, it must be sustained.
Page 413 - To constitute notice of an infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating the same, the person to whom it is negotiated must have had actual knowledge of the infirmity or defect, or knowledge of such facts that his action in taking the instrument amounted to bad faith.
Page 644 - An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel...
Page 318 - If the object or purpose for which any check of a public disbursing officer is drawn is not stated thereon, as required...