Cases Reported in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 110D. Bottom, Superintendent of Public Print., 1910 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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acres action Affirmed aforesaid alleged appears appellee assignment of error assigns error assumpsit avers bank Bath county bills of exception Buchanan cause Circuit Court claim Code commissioners Commonwealth complained Constitution contract contributory negligence Corporation Court court of equity creditors damages debts deceased declaration decree deed defendant company defendant in error defendant's delivered the opinion demurrer duty engine entitled evidence facts fee simple filed Gratt injury instructs the jury judgment land liable lien logs Lumber ment negligence Norfolk and Western parties payment person plaintiff in error purchase question railroad company Railway Company real estate reason record recover Reversed Richmond road Roanoke river rule scire facias Statement statute stream supra sustained thereof Tidewater Railway timber tion track train trial court Trigg Company trust verdict Virginia W. R. Co Western Railway Wise county witness
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Page 893 - But neither the Amendment, broad and comprehensive as it is, nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its ' police power,' to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education and good order of the people, and to legislate so as to increase the industries of the State, develop its resources and add to its wealth and prosperity.
Page 419 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 173 - ... after the allowance of such a claim, the ascertainment of the amount due, and the issuing of a warrant for the payment thereof. Such transfers, assignments, and powers of attorney, must recite the warrant for payment, and must be acknowledged by the person making them, before an officer having authority to take acknowledgments of deeds, and shall be certified by the officer ; and it must appear by the certificate that the officer, at the time of the acknowledgment, read and fully explained the...
Page 525 - If the right to impose the tax exists, it is a right which in its nature acknowledges no limits. It may be carried to any extent, within the jurisdiction of the state or corporation which imposes it, which the will of each state and corporation may prescribe.
Page 543 - The burden rested upon the plaintiff to prove by a preponderance of the evidence that the negligence of the defendant was the proximate cause of the decedent's injury.
Page 881 - States ; or, to sell, or contract to sell, goods at unreasonably low prices for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating a competitor. Any person violating any of -the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Page 118 - Exception is taken to the action of the Circuit Court in refusing to set aside the verdict of the jury, as contrary to the law and the evidence.
Page 607 - Franklin circuit court, for $20,000.00 damages for the death of his intestate, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of...
Page 416 - ... We take the general doctrine to be, in this country, (though there may be exceptional cases and some authorities to the contrary,) that the powers of corporations, organized under legislative statutes, are such, and such only, as those statutes confer. Conceding the rule applicable to all statutes, that what is fairly implied is as much granted as what is expressed, it remains that the charter of a corporation is the measure of its powers, and that the enumeration of these powers implies the...
Page 588 - The assured will take a complete itemized inventory of stock on hand at least once in each calendar year, and unless such inventory has been taken within twelve calendar months prior to the date of this policy one shall be taken in detail within thirty days of issuance of this policy, or this policy shall be null and void from such date.