Reports of Cases Heard and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Volume 69Banks & Bros., 1892 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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abide event affirmed agreement alleged amount applied Asahel G assignment auction duties authority award bark barratry Beaver Benner bills of lading bonds chap claim clerk commissioners complaint concurred contract corporation costs to abide Court of Appeals creditors damages debt deceased DECEMBER TERM defendant defendant's deposit entered entitled equity evidence ex rel executed executors fact fraud fraudulent held highway HUN-VOL intention interest issue John John McDonnell judgment jury land legacy liable lien LXII MAYHAM ment mortgage motion Mount Vernon NOVEMBER TERM owner paid parties Patrick payment person plaintiff plank-road company premises provisions purchase question real estate received recover referee replevin res adjudicata respondent reversed SECOND DEPARTMENT sell share sold Special Term statute statute of frauds stockholders Supervisors testator testimony thereof THIRD DEPARTMENT tion town trust turnpike Ulster County Vanderhoof void William Clark witness York
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Page 301 - Any person who shall be injured in person, property, means of support, or otherwise by any intoxicated person, or by reason of the intoxication of any person...
Page 398 - It is sufficient for the present to say, generally, that when the importer has so acted upon the thing imported, that it has become incorporated and mixed up with the mass of property in the country...
Page 399 - This indictment is against the importer, for selling a package of dry goods in the form in which it was imported, without a license. This state of things is changed if he sells them, or otherwise mixes them with the general property of the state, by breaking up his packages, and traveling with them as an itinerant peddler.
Page 181 - Where a grant for a valuable consideration shall be made' to one person, and the consideration therefor shall be paid by another, no use or trust shall result in favor of the person by whom such payment shall be made; but the title shall vest in the person named as the alienee in such conveyance, subject only to the provisions of the next section.
Page 16 - ... or corporation contracted while they are trustees, provided said debts are payable within one year from the time they shall have been contracted, and provided a suit for the collection of the same shall be brought within one year after the debt shall become due and payable.
Page 320 - ... on the application of any person being the original holder [or assignee of such holder] of a note, bond, or other instrument of writing in which judgment is confessed, or containing a warrant for an attorney at law or other person to confess judgment, to enter judgment against the person or persons who executed the same for the amount which, from the face of the instrument, may appear to be due...
Page 407 - If any certificate or report made, or public notice given by the officers of any such company in pursuance of the provisions of this act, shall be false in any material representation, all the officers who shall have signed the same, knowing it to be false, shall be jointly and severally liable for all the debts of the company contracted while they are stockholders or officers thereof.
Page 503 - the first general maxim of interpretation is, that it is not allowable to interpret what has no need of interpretation.
Page 560 - ... persons, alphabetically arranged, who are, or shall within six years have been stockholders of such company, and showing their places of residence, the number of shares of stock held by them respectively, and the time when they respectively became the owners of such shares...
Page 35 - The ground of this jurisdiction of courts of equity in cases of purpresture, as well as of public nuisances, undoubtedly is their ability to give a more complete and perfect remedy than is attainable at law, in order to prevent irreparable mischief, and also to suppress oppressive and vexatious litigation.