Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky, 1785-1951, Volume 14; Volume 53 |
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Page 209 - ... 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, then and in every such case the person who would have been 'liable if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused xmder such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 477 - Justice delivered the opinion of the court. " The only question in this case is, whether an ac-^MantIcvi!le tion of indebitatus assumpsit can be maintained by the Riddle.
Page 421 - If any person on the Sabbath day shall himself be found at his own, or any other trade or calling...
Page 17 - In an action against several defendants, the court may, in its discretion, render judgment against one or more of them, leaving the action to proceed against the others, whenever a several judgment may be proper.
Page 567 - It is a rule of law, when the ancestor by any gift or conveyance takes an estate of freehold, and in the same gift or conveyance an estate is limited either mediately or immediately to his heirs in fee or in tail ; that always in such cases 'the heirs' are words of limitation of the estate and not words of purchase,
Page 4 - An error of the plaintiff as to the kind of proceedings adopted shall not cause the abatement or dismissal of the action. but merely a change into the proper proceedings by an amendment in the pleadings and a transfer of the action to the proper docket.
Page 557 - Committee of his estate shall petition for authority to mortgage, lease or sell so much of the real estate as may be necessary for the payment of such debts ; 2. Such petition shall set forth the particulars and amount of the estate real and personal...
Page 129 - Now, clearly enough, it is the general rule that the possession of one tenant in common is the possession of all the co-tenants and inures to the benefit of all.
Page 249 - ... 2. When the action is between herself and her husband, she may sue or be sued alone; 3.
Page 397 - Trial by jury may be waived by the several parties to an issue of fact, in actions arising on contract; and with the assent of the court in other actions in the manner following: 1.