Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Τόμος 105Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Benjamin Watkins Leigh, Conway Robinson, Peachy Ridgway Grattan, James Muscoe Matthews, George W. Hansbrough, Martin Parks Burks D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1907 Some vols. also contain reports of cases in the General Court of Virginia. |
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... heavy iron pipes , about two feet high ; that this pile of pipes was bridged , as already indicated , which made an ascent on one side and a Opinion . descent on the other . The evidence further 2 FEWELL V. SOUTHERN R. Co. , 105 Va . 1 .
... heavy iron pipes , about two feet high ; that this pile of pipes was bridged , as already indicated , which made an ascent on one side and a Opinion . descent on the other . The evidence further 2 FEWELL V. SOUTHERN R. Co. , 105 Va . 1 .
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... further tends to show that the board extending from the car to the platform was defective in having a piece about six inches square " chipped " out of one corner of the end resting upon the car ; and that the construction of the bridge ...
... further tends to show that the board extending from the car to the platform was defective in having a piece about six inches square " chipped " out of one corner of the end resting upon the car ; and that the construction of the bridge ...
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... be reversed and annulled , and the cause remanded for further proceedings to be had therein not in conflict with this opinion . Reversed . Syllabus . Richmond , TOWNSEND AND OTHERS V. NORFOLK RAILWAY FRENCH v . VRADENBURG , 105 Va . 16 .
... be reversed and annulled , and the cause remanded for further proceedings to be had therein not in conflict with this opinion . Reversed . Syllabus . Richmond , TOWNSEND AND OTHERS V. NORFOLK RAILWAY FRENCH v . VRADENBURG , 105 Va . 16 .
Σελίδα 25
... further , that the defendant , by allowing the electric current from the wires and conduits , or on return circuit , to escape from its wires , or returning by ground circuit , to run over and through the pipes of metal placed to carry ...
... further , that the defendant , by allowing the electric current from the wires and conduits , or on return circuit , to escape from its wires , or returning by ground circuit , to run over and through the pipes of metal placed to carry ...
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... further avers that , pursuant to the legislative and municipal authority had and obtained . as aforesaid , it has ever since operated , and still continues to operate , its said plant in a proper , careful , reasonable , and suit- able ...
... further avers that , pursuant to the legislative and municipal authority had and obtained . as aforesaid , it has ever since operated , and still continues to operate , its said plant in a proper , careful , reasonable , and suit- able ...
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Σελίδα 655 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Σελίδα 655 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Σελίδα 477 - That it is complete and regular upon its face. (2) That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact. (3) That he took it in good faith and for value. (4) That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or defect in the title of the person negotiating it.
Σελίδα 41 - All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. We balance inconveniences ; we give and take ; we remit some rights that we may enjoy others ; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants.
Σελίδα 908 - The plaintiff in ejectment must recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of the defendant*.
Σελίδα 149 - Where a party pays an illegal demand with a full knowledge of all the facts which render such demand illegal, without an immediate and urgent necessity therefor, or unless to release his person or property from detention, or to prevent an immediate seizure of his person or property, such payment must be deemed voluntary and cannot be recovered back. And the fact that the party at the time of making the payment files a written protest does not make the payment involuntary.
Σελίδα 475 - Where a negotiable instrument is materially altered without the assent of all parties liable thereon, it is avoided, except as against a party who has himself made, authorized, or assented to the alteration, and subsequent indorsers. But when an instrument has been materially altered and is in the hands of a holder in due course, not a party to the alteration, he may enforce payment thereof according to its original tenor.
Σελίδα 477 - A holder in due course is a holder who has taken the instrument under the following conditions : 1. That it is complete and regular on its face. 2. That he became the holder of it before it was overdue, and without notice that it had been previously dishonored, if such was the fact. 3. That he took it in good faith and for value. 4. That at the time it was negotiated to him he had no notice of any infirmity in the instrument or...
Σελίδα 249 - The question whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the constitution is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative in a doubtful case.
Σελίδα 113 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent, or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the public good.