Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, Volume 155New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1898 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 75 - The court may, before or after judgment, in furtherance of justice, and on such terms as may be proper, amend any pleading or proceeding, by adding or striking out the name of any party, or by correcting a mistake in the name of a party or a mistake in any other respect, or by inserting other allegations material to the case, when the amendment does not change substantially the claim or defence by conforming the pleading or proceeding to the facts proved.
Page 429 - The Legislature shall pass general laws providing for the cases enumerated in this section, and for all other cases which in Its judgment may be provided for by general laws.
Page 348 - Any agreement, declaration, or course of action on the part of an insurance company, which leads a party insured honestly to believe that by conforming thereto, a forfeiture of his policy will not be incurred, followed by due conformity on his part, will and ought to estop the company from insisting upon the forfeiture, though it might be claimed under the express letter of the contract.
Page 442 - An action is an ordinary proceeding in a court of justice, by which a party prosecutes another party for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offence. § 3. Every other remedy is a special proceeding.
Page 588 - But neither the judgment of a concurrent or exclusive jurisdiction is evidence, of any matter which came collaterally in question, though within their jurisdiction ; nor of any matter incidentally cognizable ; nor of any matter to be inferred by argument from the judgment.
Page 436 - If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk.
Page 423 - The Legislature shall, by general laws, confer upon the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State such further powers of local legislation and administration as the Legislature may, from time to time, deem expedient...
Page 149 - The repeal of a law or any part of it specified in the annexed schedule shall not affect or impair any act done, or right accruing, accrued or acquired...
Page 502 - ... for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people, and upon all questions which may be submitted to the vote of the people...
Page 734 - ... the rule of reasonable care and diligence does not require the exercise of the highest possible degree of care, and to render a physician and surgeon liable, it is not enough that there has been a less degree of care than some other medical man might have shown, or less than even he himself might have bestowed, but there must be a want of ordinary and reasonable care, leading to a bad result.