The South Western Reporter, Volume 2West Publishing Company, 1887 Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas. |
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adverse possession affirmed alleged Appeal from circuit appellant appellee Arkansas county assault assessment assignment attachment attorney bill bond cause of action charge circuit court claim common law complainant contract conveyance conveyed conviction county court Court of Appeals court of equity creditors damages debt deceased December 20 deed defendant defendant's demurrer entitled equity error evidence executed facts fendant filed fraudulent grant held Hunt county husband indictment instruction issue judge judgment jurisdiction jury Kenton county Kentucky land liable lien Louis ment Missouri mortgage N. W. Rep offense officer overruled paid party payment person petition plaintiff possession Presidio county proceedings proof purchase question railroad reason record recover refused remanded reversed rule sold statute sufficient suit Supreme Court taxes term testified testimony Texas thereof tion tract trial trust verdict wife witness writ
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Página 125 - The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions, from unreasonable searches and seizures ; and no warrant to search any place, or to seize any person or things, shall issue, without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, subscribed to by the affiant.
Página 73 - The homestead of a family, after the death of the owner thereof, shall be exempt from the payment of his debts contracted after the adoption of this Constitution, in all cases during the minority of his children.
Página 250 - ... breach of warranty. But it would be better to distinguish such cases as a non-compliance with a contract which a party has engaged to fulfil ; as, if a man offers to buy peas of another, and he sends him beans, he does not perform his contract; but that is not a warranty, there is no warranty that he should sell him peas ; the contract is to sell peas, and if he sends him anything else in their stead, it is a non-performance of it.
Página 287 - ... third, under color of a known election or appointment, void because the officer was not' eligible, or because there was a want of power in the electing or appointing body, or by reason of some defect or irregularity in its exercise, such...
Página 56 - Every man who has a share of the profits of a trade ought also to bear his share of the loss.
Página 633 - It is also requisite that the trial be public. By this is not meant that every person who sees fit shall in all cases be permitted to attend criminal trials ; because there are many cases where, from the character of the charge, and the nature of the evidence by which it is to be supported, the motives to attend the trial on the part of portions of the community would be of the worst character, and where a regard to public morals and public decency would require that at least the young be excluded...
Página 57 - No contract for the remuneration of a servant or agent of any person engaged in any trade or undertaking by a share of the profits of such trade or undertaking shall, of itself, render such servant or agent responsible as a partner therein nor give him the rights of a partner.
Página 509 - ... the plaintiff himself so far contributed to the misfortune by his own negligence or want of ordinary and common care and caution, that, but for such negligence or want of ordinary care and caution on his part, the misfortune would not have happened.
Página 396 - That all murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Página 593 - Their sole distinguishing feature is that they should be the necessary incidents of the litigated act; necessary, in this sense, that they are part of the immediate preparations for, or emanations of such act, and are not produced by the calculated policy of the actors.