Massachusetts Reports, Volume 104H.O. Houghton and Company, 1872 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... plaintiff's cellar , and injured it . This is an action of tort . The original declaration alleged that the defendants cut a hole in the plaintiff's drain , and let the surface water , mud and dirt into it , and choked it up , so that ...
... plaintiff's cellar , and injured it . This is an action of tort . The original declaration alleged that the defendants cut a hole in the plaintiff's drain , and let the surface water , mud and dirt into it , and choked it up , so that ...
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... plaintiff , and the injury sued for was occasioned by the water , when the cess- pool was obstructed , flowing over ... plaintiff's land . In Benjamin v . Wheeler , 8 Gray , 409 , and 15 Gray , 486 , the injury sued for was caused by the ...
... plaintiff , and the injury sued for was occasioned by the water , when the cess- pool was obstructed , flowing over ... plaintiff's land . In Benjamin v . Wheeler , 8 Gray , 409 , and 15 Gray , 486 , the injury sued for was caused by the ...
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... plaintiff's allegations . The town , before the trial , filed interrogatories to the plaintiff , as to the nature , location and description of the de- fect ; the manner , circumstances and nature of the injury ; what the plaintiff did ...
... plaintiff's allegations . The town , before the trial , filed interrogatories to the plaintiff , as to the nature , location and description of the de- fect ; the manner , circumstances and nature of the injury ; what the plaintiff did ...
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... plaintiff was an operative in the Suffolk Mills , and was going , with due care , to her work , on the morning of Monday , February 8 , 1869 , about six o clock , when she stumbled and fell , upon a sidewalk in Merrimack Street , and ...
... plaintiff was an operative in the Suffolk Mills , and was going , with due care , to her work , on the morning of Monday , February 8 , 1869 , about six o clock , when she stumbled and fell , upon a sidewalk in Merrimack Street , and ...
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... plaintiff's case ; and there can be no doubt of the plaintiff's right to rebut this new matter by her own denial . 3. As to the rulings of the judge in the matter of the inter- rogatories to the plaintiff filed by the defendants , the ...
... plaintiff's case ; and there can be no doubt of the plaintiff's right to rebut this new matter by her own denial . 3. As to the rulings of the judge in the matter of the inter- rogatories to the plaintiff filed by the defendants , the ...
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Page 611 - ... a power reserved to the legislature to alter, amend or repeal a charter authorizes it to make any alteration or amendment of a charter granted subject to it, which will not defeat or substantially impair the object of the grant, or any rights vested under it, and which the legislature may deem necessary to secure either that object or any public right.
Page 135 - No owner of any vessel shall be liable to answer for or make good to any person any loss or damage which may happen to any merchandise whatsoever, which shall be shipped, taken in, or put on board any such vessel, by reason or by means of any fire happening to or on board the vessel, unless such fire is caused by the design or neglect of such owner.
Page 248 - All persons whatsoever, residing in any State, District or Territory of the United States, owing debts, which shall not have been created in consequence of a defalcation as a public officer; or as executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, or while acting in any other fiduciary capacity...
Page 359 - Work covered by said bid, then this obligation shall be null and void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect.
Page 475 - Fellows, and for all accommodations of buildings, and all other necessary provisions, that may conduce to the education of the English and Indian youth of this country, in knowledge and godliness.
Page 450 - It prohibits the States from passing any law impairing the obligation of contracts; it does not enjoin them to enforce contracts.
Page 249 - That no debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged under this act...
Page 62 - State, by their engines, tenders, or cars^ such corporation, assignees, trustees, servants, cr agents, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars, for each offence.
Page 96 - Such powers are generally regarded as discretionary, because in their nature they are legislative ; and although it is the duty of such corporations to carry out the powers so granted and make them beneficial, still it has never been held that an action on the case would lie...
Page 292 - It is the possession of the legal estate, or a right in the subject over which the power is to be exercised, that makes the interest in question...