Reports of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, Volumen251

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E.W. Stephens, 1913
 

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Página 435 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter In which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory matter, which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable...
Página 435 - The proper meaning of a privileged communication is only this ; that the occasion on which the communication was made rebuts the inference prima facie arising from a statement prejudicial to the character of the Plaintiff, and puts it upon him to prove that there was malice in fact — that the Defendant was actuated by motives of personal spite or ill-will, independent of the occasion on which the communication was made.
Página 313 - No county, city, town, township, school district, or other political corporation, or subdivision of the State, shall be allowed to become indebted, in any manner, or for any purpose, to an amount exceeding, in any year, the income and revenue provided for such year...
Página 106 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law, a law which hears before it condemns, which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Página 27 - The proximate cause of an event must be understood to be that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event, and without which that event would not have occurred.
Página 322 - ... per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be .ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Página 200 - It Is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed by the court that this cause be, and the same Is hereby, dismissed as to the defendant Pickel Marble & Granite Company.
Página 583 - That for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the party of the first part...
Página 550 - The lien for the things aforesaid, or work, shall attach to the buildings, erections or improvements for which they were furnished or the work was done, in preference to any prior lien or incumbrance or mortgage, upon the land upon which said buildings, erections, improvements or machinery have been erected or put ; and any person enforcing such lien may have such building, erection or improvement sold under execution, and the purchaser may remove the same within a reasonable time thereafter.
Página 370 - The care and caution required of a child is according to his maturity and capacity only, and this is to be determined in each case by the circumstances of that case.

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