Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volumen114Department of Purchase and Supply, 1913 |
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acre grant action Affirmed agent agreement alleged amended amount answer appears appellee assignment of error bank bill of exceptions bill of lading Brown Buchanan cause Chilhowie circuit court claim Clayville clerk coal Code codicil commissioner complainant contract conveyed corporation court of equity creditors damages Daniel F debt declaration decree deed defendant company defendant in error delivered the opinion demurrer duty entitled evidence executed fact fendant filed Gratt injury instructs the jury judgment jurisdiction Keys Planing Mill Kirkbridge land lien Lumber McClamrock ment negligence November 21 owner paid parties payment petition plaintiff in error Planing Mill Company Pokanoket probate proceedings purchase question railroad receivers record recover refused Reversed Richmond rule Smith statute street suit supra sustained taxes Tazewell county testator thereof timber tion tract trial court trustee verdict Virginia Wise county witness writ of error
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Página 865 - Is shown by repeated decisions of this court, are these: (1) The equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment does not take from the state the power to classify in the adoption of police laws, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion...
Página 510 - It is a maxim not to be disregarded that general expressions, in every opinion, are to be taken in connection with the case in which those expressions are used. If they go beyond the case they may be respected, but ought not to control the judgment in a subsequent suit when the very point is presented for decision.
Página 851 - A classification having some reasonable basis does not offend against that clause merely because it is not made with mathematical nicety or because in practice it results in some inequality.
Página 120 - This is a writ of right, originally brought by the plaintiff in error, against the defendant in error, to recover a certain tract of land in Kentucky, described in the writ.
Página 902 - The equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not take from the state the power to classify in the adoption of police laws, but admits of the exercise of a wide scope of discretion in that regard, and avoids what is done only when it is without any reasonable basis, and therefore is purely arbitrary.
Página 606 - The refusal of the court to give, at the request of the plaintiff, an instruction to the effect, that if the jury believed from the evidence that the...
Página 784 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he in effect grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Página 461 - Rule 50 (b) the defendant moved "to set aside the verdict on the ground that it is contrary to the law and contrary to the evidence and contrary to the weight of the evidence, and that the damages were excessive.
Página 607 - as a matter of law" there was no entrapment. Verdict of guilty followed, motions in arrest, and to set aside the verdict as contrary to the law and the evidence, were denied, and defendant was sentenced to imprisonment for eighteen months.
Página 451 - All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...