Mississippi Reports ... Being Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, Volumen70E.W. Stephens Publishing Company, 1893 |
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69 Miss action adverse possession affidavit alleged appellee applied assessment assessor assignment attachment authority averred bank bill board of supervisors bond Brief for appellant Carroll county cause chancery court chapter charge circuit court claim Coahoma county complainant constitution contract conveyance corporation counsel court of equity creditors damages debt debtor declaration decree deed defendant defendant's delivered the opinion demurrer district duty election employes entitled equity error evidence execution exemption fact filed Frank Johnston garnishee Hinds county homestead Illinois Central Railroad instruction interest Judge judgment jurisdiction jury justice land Leflore county legislature liable ment Mississippi Mills municipality negligence notice officer overruled paid parties payment person plaintiff possession privilege tax prosecution purchaser question Railroad Co railroad company recover replevin revenue agent rule sold Statement statute sued suit taxation tenant testimony thereof tion trial trust-deed trustee usury verdict witness
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Página 201 - It is often said that the test, or one of the tests, whether a person not ostensibly a partner is nevertheless, in contemplation of law, a partner, is, whether he is entitled to participate in the profits. This, no doubt, is, in general, a sufficiently accurate test ; for a right to .participate in profits affords cogent, often conclusive, evidence that the trade in which the profits have been made was carried on in part for or on behalf of the person setting up such a claim. But the real ground...
Página 714 - Property shall be assessed for taxes under general laws, and by uniform rules, according to its true value.
Página 36 - February of the year in which he shall offer to vote, all poll taxes which may have been legally required of him, and which he has had an opportunity of paying according to law, for the two preceding years, and who shall produce to the...
Página 729 - The court instructs the jury, that although they may believe from the evidence, that the...
Página 1033 - ... person having the right to control or direct the services of the party injured, and also when the injury results from the negligence of a...
Página 189 - community of right," or of " interest in the subject-matter," among these individuals, but where there is and because there is merely a community of interest among them in the questions of law and fact involved in the general controversy, or in the kind and form of relief demanded and obtained by or against each individual member of the numerous body.
Página 306 - ... no law shall be revived or amended by reference to its title only, but the law revived or the section amended shall be inserted at length in the new act.
Página 20 - Knowledge by any employee injured, of the defective or unsafe character or condition of any machinery, ways or appliances, shall be no defense to an action for injury caused thereby, except as to conductors or engineers in charge of dangerous or unsafe cars, or engines voluntarily operated by them.
Página 609 - ... restrain a party to a suit already pending before the court, and to try the same right that is in issue there. Sawyer, who had been arrested for contempt of the injunction of a federal court, was discharged on habeas corpus, upon the ground of an entire want of power in the court to grant the injunction. There are many cases to be found, proceeding upon an obvious and clear distinction, in which courts of equity have enjoined acts affecting property rights, notwithstanding the fact that such...
Página 201 - It is not strictly correct to say that his right to share in the profits makes him liable to the debts of the trade.