Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Τόμος 110H.O. Houghton and Company, 1874 |
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Σελίδα 255 - The general rule, resulting from considerations as well of justice as of policy, is, that he who engages in the employment of another for the performance of specified duties and services, for compensation, takes upon himself the natural and ordinary risks and perils incident to the performance of such services, and in legal presumption, the compensation is adjusted accordingly.
Σελίδα 80 - And where a suit is now pending, or may be hereafter brought in any state court in which there is a controversy between a citizen of the state in which the suit is brought, and a citizen of another state...
Σελίδα 488 - ... by the burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the same by the testator, or by some person in his presence and by his direction, with the intention of revoking the same.
Σελίδα 181 - Before the jury was impanelled, the defendant filed a motion to quash the indictment on the ground that it set forth no offence known to the law.
Σελίδα 435 - RECONSIDERATION. [When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof...
Σελίδα 409 - It is not the secret intent of the assaulting party, nor the undisclosed fact of his ability or inability to commit a battery, that is material ; but what his conduct and the attending circumstances denote at the time to the party assaulted. If to him they indicate an attack, he is justified in resorting to defensive action. The same rule applies to the proof necessary to sustain a criminal complaint for an assault. It is the outward demonstration that constitutes the mischief which is punished as...
Σελίδα 258 - This testimony is properly introduced to show that the negligence of the defendants was the proximate cause of the injury, and so that there is a right of recovery over in this case.
Σελίδα 260 - ... from the obligation. The agents who are charged with the duty of supplying safe machinery are not, in the true sense of the rule relied on, to be regarded as fellow-servants of those who are engaged in operating it. They are charged with the master's duty to his servant. They are employed in distinct and independent departments of service, and there is no difficulty in distinguishing them, even when the same person renders service by turns in each, as the convenience of the employer may require....
Σελίδα 321 - But we think that this exception, if established, does not extend beyond the case of a dealer who sells provisions directly to the consumer for domestic use.' In such cases it may be reasonable to infer a tacit understanding, which enters into the contract, that the provisions are sound. The relation of the buyer to the seller and the circumstances of the sale may raise the presumption that the seller impliedly represents them to be sound. But the same reasons are not applicable to the case of one...
Σελίδα 123 - The city may sell such securities at public or private sale, or pledge the same for money borrowed for the purposes of this act. upon such terms and conditions as it may deem proper, provided that they shall not be sold for less than the par value thereof.