Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Washington, Volume 21

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Vol. 1 includes the decisions of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington for 1889.
 

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Page 522 - The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.
Page 300 - When a given state of facts is such that reasonable men may fairly differ upon the question as to whether there was negligence or not, the determination of the matter is for the jury. It is only where the facts are such that all reasonable men must draw the same conclusion from them that the question of negligence is ever considered as one of law for the court.
Page 256 - Territory to which such person has fled to cause him to be arrested and secured, and to cause notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear.
Page 168 - An intervention takes place when a third person Is permitted to become a party to an action or proceeding between other persons, either by Joining the plaintiff In claiming what Is sought by the complaint, or by uniting with the defendant in resisting the claims of the plaintiff, or-by demanding anything adversely to both the plaintiff and the defendant, and is made by complaint, setting forth the grounds upon which the intervention rests, filed by leave of the court...
Page 614 - Every claim which is due, when presented to the executor or administrator, must be supported by the affidavit of the claimant, or some one in his behalf, that the amount is justly due, that no payments have been made thereon which are not credited, and that there are no offsets to the same, to the knowledge of the affiant.
Page 71 - malice" is not restricted to spite or malevolence towards the deceased in particular, but in its legal sense it is understood to mean that general malignity and recklessness of the lives and personal safety of others which proceed from a heart void of a just sense of social duty and fatally bent on mischief.
Page 487 - But where the same matter has been either actually tried, or so in issue that it might have been tried, it is not again admissible; the party is estopped to set up such fraud, because the judgment is the highest evidence, and cannot be controverted.
Page 256 - Whenever the executive authority of any State or Territory demands any person as a fugitive from justice, of the executive authority of any State...
Page 208 - ... the moneys arising from the loans creating such debts, shall be applied to the purpose for which they were obtained, or to repay the debts so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever.
Page 454 - By consent of the parties the cases were tried together by the court without a jury, resulting in a judgment in favor of the plaintiff Christine Carroll, widow, in one case, and against the plaintiff Eva Buckley, the mother, in the other case.

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