Author | Title | Citation | Document Type | Case Status | Summary | Year | Relevancy |
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Alevy v. Downstate Medical Center |
39 N.Y.2d 326, Court of Appeals of New York. (4/8/1976) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Action was brought seeking order compelling medical school to provide plaintiff a place in its class of 19741975 on ground that the school denied him admission because minority students, presenting inferior credentials, were accepted and refusal to accept petitioner was arbitrary and capricious. The Supreme Court, Kings County, Special Term,... |
1976 |
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Long Island Ins. Co. v. Frank |
328 So.2d 542, District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District. (3/17/1976) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Plaintiff brought derivative action against insurer to recover medical benefits for injuries his minor son sustained while operating motorcycle which collided with another motor vehicle. The Circuit Court, Dade County, Francis X. Knuck, J., entered judgment in favor of insurer, and plaintiff appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Nathan, J., held... |
1976 |
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Consolidated Brief for Turner Elkhorn Mining Company, et Al. |
(8/8/1975) |
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The opinion of the district court is reported at 385 F. Supp. 424; it is printed in the Jurisdictional Statement in Case No. 74-1302 at Appendix A, pp. 1A-13A, and in the Jurisdictional... |
1975 |
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Camacho v. Allstate Ins. Co. |
310 So.2d 330, District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District. (4/8/1975) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Action was brought against insurer to collect personal injury protection benefits. The Circuit Court, Dade County, David Goodhart, J., rendered summary final judgment adverse to plaintiff who appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Nathan, J., held that commercial vehicle involved in accident with truck driven by plaintiff, who had personal injury... |
1975 |
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Deel Motors, Inc. v. Carrington |
305 So.2d 811, District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District. (12/10/1974) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Action was brought for damages sustained in a rear-end automobile collision. The Circuit Court, Dade County, Francis J. Christie, J., entered judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appealed. The District Court of Appeal, Green, Robert A., Jr., Associate Judge, held that new, unregistered, although otherwise registerable, station wagon which was... |
1974 |
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Rodriguez v. American Airlines, Inc. |
386 F.Supp. 78, United States District Court, D. Puerto Rico. (2/8/1974) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Diversity action was brought against airline which allegedly failed to deliver a six-year-old passenger at scheduled time. Defendant moved for summary judgment. The District Court, Toledo, C.J., held that doctrine of primary jurisdiction as applied to Civil Aeronautics Board did not bar district court from jurisdiction in such action, in which... |
1974 |
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Richard Young |
Compensatory Racial Reapportionment |
25 Stanford Law Review 84 (November, 1972) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The goals of the petitioners in Brown v. Board of Education and its progeny were to halt official discrimination and to insure that racial minorities received equal treatment. In recent years, however, it has been argued increasingly that an absolute rule mandating equal treatment will not lead to racial equality in fact. The failure of equal... |
1972 |
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Allan E. Korpela, LL.B. |
Fraud, Misrepresentation, or Deception as Estopping Reliance on Statute of Limitations |
43 American Law Reports ALR3d 1972) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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This annotation collects those cases which discuss generally the availability to the plaintiff of the doctrine of equitable estoppel to deprive the defendant of the defense of the statute of limitations where the primary ground advanced in support of estoppel is that plaintiff was induced by fraudulent conduct, misrepresentation, or deception, on... |
1972 |
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Lino A. Graglia |
Special Admission of the "Culturally Deprived" to Law School |
119 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 351 (December, 1970) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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In the past few years many law school faculties have adopted a policy of granting admissions to a limited number of applicants who do not meet the school's usual minimum standards. This policy is often described as applicable to the culturally deprived, but cultural deprivation is seldom defined and neither a cultural opportunity test nor an... |
1970 |
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Sam Dealey |
Monetary Recovery under Federal Transportation Statutes |
45 Texas Law Review 984 (April, 1967) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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L1-5MONETARY RECOVERY UNDER FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION STATUTES 984 L2-5I. Personal Injury and Wrongful Death 984 L3-5A. The Federal Employers' Liability Act 984 L3-5B. The Jones Act 987 L3-5C. The Death on the High Seas Act 988 L3-5D. Common Elements of Injury 989 L4-5(1) Medical Costs 989 L4-5(2) Personal Damage 990 L4-5(3) Expectancy 991 L4-5(4)... |
1967 |
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Leonard S. Goodman |
Passports in Perspective |
45 Texas Law Review 221 (December, 1966) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The Supreme Court first addressed itself to passport problems in President Jackson's administration when it considered the passport to be in the character of a political document for the identification of the bearer. It was not until 1958 in Kent v. Dulles that the Court specifically recognized a right to travel or freedom of movement as a... |
1966 |
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Barrett v. Matthews |
138 So.2d 151, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit. (1/31/1962) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Action for injuries sustained by plaintiff when he was shot by the defendant. From a judgment rejecting his demands in the Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of De Soto, John S. Pickett, J., the plaintiff appealed. The Court of Appeal, Hardy, J., held that the evidence established that the shooting was unjustified and that plaintiff was... |
1962 |
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State v. Maier |
13 N.J. 235, Supreme Court of New Jersey. (6/25/1953) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
Prosecution of an accused for wilfully committing an assault and battery upon a named person by spitting upon the face and body of such person in violation of the Disorderly Persons Law. The Municipal Court of the City of Hoboken denied defendant's motion to dismiss the complaint and the Supreme Court granted defendant's petition for certification.... |
1953 |
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Moore v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co. |
98 F.Supp. 375, United States District Court E.D. Pennsylvania. (6/26/1951) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
Action by Charles Moore against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company and Pennsylvania Railroad Company for damages allegedly sustained when plaintiff was required to move from a coach restricted to white passengers to one restricted to colored persons. Both defendants moved to dismiss the complaint. The District Court, Grim, J., held that the... |
1951 |
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Brief for Southern Railway Company |
(10/10/1949) |
Briefs |
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The opinion of the specially constituted three-judge United States District Court, for the District of Maryland, in Number 3829, Henderson v. United States of America, et al., appears in... |
1949 |
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Henderson v. I. C. C. |
80 F.Supp. 32, United States District Court D. Maryland. (9/25/1948) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has been reversed or overruled. |
Action under Interstate Commerce Act, § 17(9), 49 U.S.C.A. § 17(9); 28 U.S.C.A. §§ 1336, 1398, 2284, 2321-2325, by Elmer W. Henderson against Interstate Commerce Commission and United States of America to set aside an order of the Commission with respect to dining car service on the Southern Railway, wherein the Southern Railway was granted leave... |
1948 |
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K. A. Drechsler |
Inadequacy of Legal Remedy as Basis for Equitable Relief from Levy of Execution |
171 American Law Reports ALR 1947) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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It may be stated as a general principle that after a judgment at law has been obtained, equity will interfere by injunction to prevent its execution only if it appears that such execution would be against good conscience, right, and justice, or is issued for the purpose of vexation and injustice. Such relief will not be granted where an adequate... |
1947 |
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Henderson v. U.s. |
63 F.Supp. 906, District Court, D. Maryland. (12/17/1945) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Suit by Elmer W. Henderson against the United States of America and the Interstate Commerce Commission to set aside an order of the commission with respect to dining car service on the Southern Railway, which order, after finding that plaintiff had been discriminated against by railway's failure to furnish him with service equal to that furnished... |
1945 |
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Emerson v. Sookul |
9 So.2d 325, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit. (6/2/1942) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Action by John S. and Joseph H. Emerson against Charles A. Sookul to recover damages for the value of a soda fountain which had been stripped of its metal parts and such parts allegedly purchased by defendant. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals, and plaintiff answers the appeal. Judgment amended, and, as amended, affirmed. |
1942 |
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Karl N. Llewellyn |
What Price Contract?-an Essay in Perspective |
40 Yale Law Journal 704 (March, 1931) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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Contract comes to a lawyer as a term laden with connotations of doctrine and theory. Unilateral and bilaterals, detriment, pre-existing duty, accord executory or accord and satisfaction, peculiar rules on notes and bills and warranties in insurance and substantial performance in construction deals, objective standard and the meeting of the minds,... |
1931 |
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Carufel v. Kounts |
60 N.D. 91, Supreme Court of North Dakota. (10/21/1930) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from District Court, McLean County; R. G. McFarland, Judge. Action by L. H. Carufel, doing business under the name and style of the Bismarck Marble & Granite Works, against Laura M. Kounts to recover on a written contract of sale and purchase of a burial vault. From a judgment for defendant, and from an order denying plaintiff's motion for... |
1930 |
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Francis Bowes Sayre, Harvard Law School |
Criminal Responsibility for the Acts of Another |
43 Harvard Law Review 689 (March, 1930) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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ONE of the legal problems of all ages is the liability of the master or principal for the unauthorized acts of his servant or agent. Different systems of law have reached widely differing solutions. In our own law of torts the problem came to a head and was fought through during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In our criminal law certain... |
1930 |
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Manley O. Hudson , Harvard Law School |
Amendment of the Covenant of the League of Nations |
38 Harvard Law Review 903 (May, 1925) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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FOUR amendments to the Covenant of the League of Nations have recently come into force. The event is of interest quite apart from its indication that the charter of present-day international coöperation has not been frozen for all time to come. It calls attention to a somewhat novel process of amendment, and it raises some interesting legal... |
1925 |
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Austin v. Austin |
136 Miss. 61, Supreme Court of Mississippi. (6/16/1924) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
En Banc. Appeal from Circuit Court, Hinds County, First District; W. H. Potter, Judge. Suit by Mrs. Viola Austin against H. L. Austin. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. Ethridge and Holden, JJ., dissenting. |
1924 |
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Big Five Mining Co. v. Left Hand Ditch Co. |
73 Colo. 545, Supreme Court of Colorado. (7/2/1923) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
En Banc. Error to District Court, Boulder County; George H. Bradfield, Judge. Action by the Big Five Mining Company against the Left Hand Ditch Company and another. Judgment for plaintiff on directed verdict for only the amount of damages admitted by defendants, and plaintiff brings error. Reversed. Campbell, J., dissenting. |
1923 |
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B. B. B. |
Replevin for an Undivided Share in or Undivided Quantity of a Larger Mass |
26 American Law Reports ALR 1923) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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It is settled law that replevin will not lie for an undivided share of an indivisible chattel, as, for example, a vessel (Hackett v. Potter (1881) 131 Mass. 50), or of miscellaneous chattels, as the plant and outfit of a newspaper (Thomas v. Armstrong (1915) 51 Okla. 203, L.R.A.1916B, 1182, 151 Pac. 689). In the case of the single chattel, the..." |
1923 |
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Appalachian Corp. v. Brooklyn Cooperage Co. |
151 La. 41, Supreme Court of Louisiana. (4/3/1922) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Fred D. King, Judge. Action by the Appalachian Corporation, Inc., against the Brooklyn Cooperage Co., Inc. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Judgment annulled and reversed, exception and plea overruled, and case remanded. |
1922 |
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Katz v. Eldredge |
97 N.J.L. 123, Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey. (2/2/1922) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from Supreme Court. Actions by Emanuel E. Katz, prosecutor, against Henry E. Eldredge and others, in which the judgment was for the defendants, and the prosecutor brings error; by August Carell, prosecutor, against James W. McCarthy, in which the judgment was for the defendant, and the prosecutor appeals; and by Dominick Sinisi, prosecutor,... |
1922 |
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State v. Rhodes |
146 Tenn. 398, Supreme Court of Tennessee. (7/1/1922) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from Criminal Court, Shelby County; T. W. Harsh, Judge. Homer Rhodes was indicted for unlawful possession and transportation of intoxicating liquors. His plea of autre fois convict having been sustained, the State appeals. Reversed and remanded. |
1922 |
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Crowell v. Crowell |
180 N.C. 516, Supreme Court of North Carolina. (12/8/1920) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from Superior Court, Mecklenburg County; Lane, Judge. Action by Lacy Crowell against W. J. Crowell. From judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. No error. Walker and Hoke, JJ., dissenting. |
1920 |
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Bell v. Saunders |
139 La. 1037, Supreme Court of Louisiana. (10/6/1916) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from Twelfth Judicial District Court, Parish of De Soto; James J. Palmer, Judge. Action by Louis H. Bell, Sr., against Dennie W. Saunders. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Affirmed. |
1916 |
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Roscoe Pound, Harvard Law School |
Interests of Personality |
28 Harvard Law Review 445 (March, 1915) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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[Concluded] WHAT might be called inviolability of the spiritual person is of no less importance, although much more difficult to secure legally. Men will fight in defense of their honor no less than in defense of their physical persons. Hence the most elementary of social interests, the interest in general security, demands that the one individual... |
1915 |
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Roscoe Pound, Harvard Law School |
The End of Law as Developed in Legal Rules and Doctrines |
27 Harvard Law Review 195 (January, 1914) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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IT is said that law is the body of rules and principles in accordance with which justice is administered by the authority of the state. In other words, the object of law is the administration of justice. At the outset, then, we are met by the question, what is justice? What is the end which we seek to attain through the legal system? This question... |
1914 |
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Wilson v. Noe |
144 Ky. 374, Court of Appeals of Kentucky. (6/21/1911) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County, Chancery Branch, Second Division. Action by Everett D. Noe against Ben H. Wilson and wife. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendants appeal. Affirmed. |
1911 |
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Davis v. Milford |
85 S.C. 504, Supreme Court of South Carolina. (4/11/1910) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from Common Pleas Circuit Court of Anderson County; Charles G. Dantzler, Judge. Action by Mrs. C. A. Davis and others against John T. Milford and others. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal. Affirmed. |
1910 |
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Taylor v. United Fruit Co. |
126 La. 568, Supreme Court of Louisiana. (6/6/1910) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Thomas C. W. Ellis, Judge. Action by James Taylor against the United Fruit Company and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal. Affirmed. |
1910 |
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Wolfe v. Georgia Ry. & Electric Co. |
2 Ga.App. 499, Court of Appeals of Georgia. (10/3/1907) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
Error from City Court of Atlanta; H. M. Reid, Judge. Action by Nathan F. Wolfe against the Georgia Railway & Electric Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. Reversed. |
1907 |
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Town of Neola v. Reichart |
131 Iowa 492, Supreme Court of Iowa. (9/26/1906) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from District Court, Pottawattamie County; W. R. Green, Judge. The evidence indicated that the defendant and several others were in Steffen's saloon; that he and Foley were jollying each other, when the latter playfully threw him arms around defendant's neck and offered to kiss him, and accidentally knocked his hat off; that defendant... |
1906 |
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Charles Foster Kent |
A Tentative Codification of the Old Testament Laws |
15 Yale Law Journal 284 (April, 1906) |
Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources |
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The Old Testament laws in their present form are a confusing labyrinth in which the modern reader who dares to enter is quickly lost. Civil, criminal, constitutional, humane and ceremonial regulations are mingled together with only an occasional attempt at systematic classification. Primitive and very late laws are also grouped together without... |
1906 |
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Georgetown Telephone Co. v. Mccullough's Adm'r |
26 Ky.L.Rptr. 72, Court of Appeals of Kentucky.(5/11/1904) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Scott County. To be officially reported. Action by Mary McCullough's administrator against the Georgetown Telephone Company. From a judgment in favor of plaintiff, defendant appeals. Reversed. |
1904 |
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Billet v. Times-democrat Pub. Co. |
107 La. 751, Supreme Court of Louisiana.(1/20/1902). |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from civil district court, parish of Orleans; Thomas C. W. Ellis, Judge. Action by E. A. Billet against the Times-Democrat Publishing Company. Judgment for defendant. Plaintiff appeals. Reversed. |
1902 |
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Wise v. Wise |
60 S.C. 426, Supreme Court of South Carolina.(4/18/1901). |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from common pleas circuit court of Richland county; O. W. Buchanan, Judge. Suit by Harriet C. Wise, by her guardian ad litem, Levi Schroyer, against Daniel Wise. From a decree in favor of defendant, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. Pope, J., dissenting. |
1901 |
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Chadwick v. Gulf States Land & Imp. Co. |
49 La.Ann. 757, Supreme Court of Louisiana. (March 01, 1897) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from civil district court, parish of Orleans; George H. Théard, Judge. Suit by Improvement Company and D. Negrotto, Elizabeth Johnson against the Gulf States Land & Improvement Company and ,D. Negrotto, Jr. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal. Affirmed. |
1897 |
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People v. Welch |
74 Hun 474, Supreme Court, General Term, First Department, New York. (December 15,) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from court of general sessions, New York county. Thomas A. Welch was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree, and appeals. Affirmed. |
1893 |
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People v. Welch |
74 Hun 474 (December 15,) |
Trial Court Orders |
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Appeal from court of general sessions, New York county. Thomas A. Welch was convicted of manslaughter in the second degree, and appeals. Affirmed. |
1893 |
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Mahon v. Justice |
127 U.S. 700, Supreme Court of the United States. (May 14, 1888) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. BRADLEY and HARLAN JJ., dissent. |
1888 |
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Potter v. Gracie |
58 Ala. 303, Supreme Court of Alabama. (December 01,) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
Bill in Equity to set aside Fraudulent Conveyance. APPEAL from Chancery Court of Dallas. Heard before Hon. CHARLES TURNER. |
1877 |
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Daniel v. Swearengen |
6 S.C. 297, Supreme Court of South Carolina. (September 09, 1875) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
This was an action on the case for enticing, persuading and procuring three persons of color, claimed to be the servants of the plaintiff, to leave his employ and engage in that of the defendant. Two of them had been engaged by the plaintiff as farm laborers, and the third, a female, as a domestic and house servant. The verdict of the jury... |
1875 |
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Howe v. Treasurer of City of Plainfield |
37 N.J.L. 145, Supreme Court of New Jersey. (January 01, 1874) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 has some negative history but has not been reversed or overruled. |
1. The 18th section of the charter of the city of Plainfield, giving to the common council the power to prescribe, by ordinance, fines and penalties for the violation of any of its ordinances, with the proviso that the amount of fine shall in no case exceed $100, or the term of imprisonment twenty days, preserving the right of trial by jury if... |
1874 |
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Munger v. Baker |
1 Thomp. & C. 122, Supreme Court, General Term, New York. (June 03, 1873) |
Cases |
As of January 6, 2020 case has not been reversed or overruled. |
That part of the charge of the circuit judge, which is as follows: That if the defendant took the pins out of the cars in the loaded train, and, in the ordinary use and management of the trains, without any want of care or attention on the part of the plaintiff, or any other person in charge, or management, or use of the train, the plaintiff... |
1873 |
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