Reports of Cases in Law and Equity, Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, Volume 54E. W. Stephens, 1881 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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abstract action adverse possession AFFIRMED alleged amount answer appellee arbitrators assigned attorney authority averred Bank bond Boone County cause cent certificate certiorari Circuit Court claim Code contract conveyance corporation counsel damages decree defendant appeals defendant's demurrer District Court District Township entitled equitable error evidence execution facts fendant filed foreclosure grant ground held indorsed insists instruction interest Iowa issued judge judgment JUNE 17 jurisdiction jury land levy liable Mahaska county mechanic's lien ment mortgage motion Newton township notice OCTOBER OCTOBER 22 opinion overruled owner paid parties payment person petition plaintiff plaintiff appeals pleaded possession premises promissory note provides purchase Q. R. Co question quitclaim deed real estate reason received record recover rendered replevin SEEVERS sheriff's sold statute Story County street sureties sustained tax deed tax sale testimony thereon thereto tiff tion trial verdict witness
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Page 314 - And so it is if a man be possessed of a lease for years, or of a horse, or of any other chattel, real or personal, and give or sell his whole interest or property therein, upon condition that the donee or vendee shall not alien the same, the same is void; because his whole interest and property is out of him, so as he hath no possibility of reverter; and it is against trade and traffic, and bargaining and contracting between man and man."— Iniquum est ingenuis horninibus non esse liberam rerum...
Page 92 - ... a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Page 611 - States which has not within ten years previous to making such investment by such corporation defaulted in the payment of any part of either principal or interest of any debt authorized by...
Page 361 - ... to provide for the safety, preserve the health, promote the prosperity, improve the morals, order, comfort, and convenience of such corporations and the inhabitants thereof...
Page 94 - Congress is hereby given to the application of a portion thereof to aid in the construction of the Keokuk, Fort Des Moines & Minnesota Railroad, in accordance with the provisions of the act of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, approved March 22, 1858.
Page 401 - Indeed, the same act may constitute an offense against both the state and the municipal corporation, and may be punished under both without violation of any constitutional principle.
Page 361 - Municipal corporations shall have power to make and publish, from time to time, ordinances, not inconsistent with the laws- of the state, for carrying into effect or discharging the powers and duties conferred by this...
Page 225 - ... when such wrongs are in any manner connected with the use and operation of any railway on or about which they shall be employed, and no contract which restricts such liability shall be legal or binding.
Page 701 - ... exercise all reasonable diligence and care in the preservation and lawful disposal of all money, books, papers, securities, or other property appertaining to his said office, and deliver them to his successor, or to any other person authorized to receive the same...
Page 426 - Subscriptions to the capital stock of a corporation shall be paid at such times and in such installments as the board of directors may by resolution require.