Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Τόμος 125Department of Purchase and Supply, 1920 |
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accordance action adverse possession affirmed aforesaid agents alleged allowed amended amount appellants appellee applied assessed assignment assured authority bill bond canal cause charge claim clause Code commissioner complainant condition Constitution contract counsel crossing damages decree deed defendant delivered demurrer directed duty effect engine entered entitled error evidence executor existence fact filed fire franchise further give given granted ground hand held injury instruction intention interest inventory judgment jury land liable lien marriage material matter ment Merritt negligence notes notice Opinion original owner paid parties payment plaintiff purchase question rates reason record referred rule statement statute sufficient suit taken testimony thereof tion tract train trial court true trust verdict Virginia wife witness
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Σελίδα 403 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Σελίδα 539 - ... such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Σελίδα 2 - Nothing can be clearer, both upon principle and authority, than the doctrine that the liability of a surety is not to be extended, by implication, beyond the terms of his contract.
Σελίδα 476 - The commission may be vested with such additional powers, and charged with such other duties (not inconsistent with this Constitution) as may be prescribed by law, in connection with the visitation, regulation or control of corporations, or with the prescribing and enforcing of rates and charges to be observed in the conduct of any business where the State has the right to prescribe the rates and charges in connection therewith...
Σελίδα 490 - ... to be observed by any public service corporation in connection with any services performed by it under a municipal or county franchise granted by such city, town or county, so far as such services may be wholly within the limits of the city, town or county granting the franchise.
Σελίδα 474 - No street railway, gas, water, steam or electric heating, electric light or power, cold storage, compressed air, viaduct, conduit, telephone or bridge company, nor any corporation, association, person or partnership engaged in these or like enterprises, shall be permitted to use the streets, alleys, or public grounds of a city or town without the previous consent of the corporate authorities of such city or town.
Σελίδα 105 - Notice of dishonor may be waived, either before the time of giving notice has arrived, or after the omission to give due notice, and the waiver may be express or implied.
Σελίδα 394 - ... displayed at one or both ends of an engine, car or train, indicates that workmen are under or about it. When thus protected it must not be coupled to or moved. Workmen will display the blue signals and the same workmen are alone authorized to remove them. Other cars must not be placed on the same track so as to intercept the view of the blue signals, without first notifying the workmen.
Σελίδα 497 - US 587, that two acts of the legislature passed on successive days, authorizing municipalities to "contract for a supply of water for public use for a period not exceeding thirty years...
Σελίδα 832 - Beyond question, the action is still an action of ejectment, and the plaintiff must still recover on the strength of his own title, and not on the weakness of that of his adversary.