Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the County Courts of Philadelphia, and the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Volume 11Kay & Brother, 1882 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... assigning for error the answers to the points above quoted , and that portion of the charge inclosed in brackets . James A. Beaver and George A. Jenks , for the plaintiffs in error . The Court erred in charging that the fact that the ...
... assigning for error the answers to the points above quoted , and that portion of the charge inclosed in brackets . James A. Beaver and George A. Jenks , for the plaintiffs in error . The Court erred in charging that the fact that the ...
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... assigning for error the the elements of recovery in this action do not rejection of the above offer of testimony , and the refusal to take off the nonsuit . Neill ( Heywang with him ) , for plaintiff in error . exist . November 7 , 1881 ...
... assigning for error the the elements of recovery in this action do not rejection of the above offer of testimony , and the refusal to take off the nonsuit . Neill ( Heywang with him ) , for plaintiff in error . exist . November 7 , 1881 ...
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... assigning exception to the admission of the decedent's widow to testify in support of the claim . upon Whitesell and Weir ( with them Whitesell , Sr. , and Gibson ) , for appellants . The rule that husband and wife cannot testify ...
... assigning exception to the admission of the decedent's widow to testify in support of the claim . upon Whitesell and Weir ( with them Whitesell , Sr. , and Gibson ) , for appellants . The rule that husband and wife cannot testify ...
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... assigning for error the refusal to take off the nonsuit . Fitzpatrick and R. B. Parkinson ( Breil with them ) , for the plaintiff in error . An employer is bound to provide his em- ployés with safe machinery , and if it be perish- able ...
... assigning for error the refusal to take off the nonsuit . Fitzpatrick and R. B. Parkinson ( Breil with them ) , for the plaintiff in error . An employer is bound to provide his em- ployés with safe machinery , and if it be perish- able ...
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... assigning for error the entry of the nonsuit , and the refusal to take it off . Murray ( with whom was Gordon ) , for the plaintiff in error . If the subscription is void , it must be so by rea- son of the Act of 1794 , prohibiting ...
... assigning for error the entry of the nonsuit , and the refusal to take it off . Murray ( with whom was Gordon ) , for the plaintiff in error . If the subscription is void , it must be so by rea- son of the Act of 1794 , prohibiting ...
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Page 46 - The taking, receiving, reserving, or charging a rate of interest greater than is allowed by the preceding section, when knowingly done, shall be deemed a forfeiture of the entire interest which the note, bill, or other evidence of debt carries with it, or which has been agreed to be paid thereon.
Page 298 - Municipal and other corporations and individuals invested with the privilege of taking private property for public use, shall make just compensation for property taken, injured, or destroyed by the construction or enlargement of their works, highways, or improvements, which compensation shall be paid or secured before such taking, injury, or destruction.
Page 121 - ... the jury may give such damages as they may think proportioned to the injury resulting from such death to the parties respectively for whom and for whose benefit such action shall be brought ; and the amount so recovered, after deducting the costs not recovered from the defendant, shall be divided amongst the before-mentioned parties in such shares as the jury by their verdict shall find and direct.
Page 121 - That every such Action shall be for the Benefit of the Wife, Husband, Parent, and Child of the Person whose Death shall have been so caused...
Page 188 - No law shall be revived, amended, or the provisions thereof extended, or conferred by reference to its title only, but so much thereof as is revived, amended, extended, or conferred, shall be reenacted, and published at length.
Page 153 - In determining what is proximate cause, the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence; such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act.
Page 94 - After verdict for the plaintiff a motion was made in arrest of judgment, on the ground that the plaintiff was a stranger to the consideration.
Page 347 - And the reason why the law allows this private and summary method of doing one's self justice, is because injuries of this kind, which obstruct or annoy such things as are of daily convenience and use, require an immediate remedy, and cannot wait for the slow progress of the ordinary forms of justice.
Page 242 - To justify a court in pronouncing an act of the legislature unconstitutional and void, either in whole or in part, it must be able to vouch some exception or prohibition clearly expressed or necessarily implied. To doubt is to be resolved in favor of the constitutionality of the act.
Page 62 - I mean the due regulation and domestic order of the kingdom, whereby the individuals of the state, like members of a well-governed family, are bound to conform their general behavior to the rules of propriety, good neighborhood and good manners, and to be decent, industrious and inoffensive in their respective stations.