Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Georgia at the ..., Volumen86

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Jas. P. Harrison & Company, printers, 1891
 

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Página 739 - 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...
Página 739 - That no money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination of religion...
Página 748 - In every tort there may be aggravating circumstances, either in the act or the intention; and in that event the jury may give additional damages, either to deter the wrongdoer from repeating the trespass, or as compensation for the wounded feelings of the plaintiff
Página 23 - This is an action of trespass brought by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in error, to recover the value of certain property taken by him, in the province of Chihuahua during the late war with Mexico.
Página 165 - No cause shall be carried to the Supreme Court upon any bill of exceptions, so long as the same is pending in the court below, unless the decision or judgment complained of, if it had been rendered as claimed by the plaintiff' in error, would have been a final disposition of the cause.
Página 277 - The real test by which to determine whether a person is acting as the servant of another is to ascertain whether, at the time when the injury was inflicted, he was subject to such person's orders and control, and was liable to be discharged by him for disobedience of orders or misconduct.
Página 739 - The General Assembly may, by law, exempt from taxation all public property, places of religious worship or burial; all institutions of purely public charity; all buildings erected for and used as a college, incorporated academy, or other seminary of learning...
Página 370 - In all cases, the marriage of the testator, total divorce or the birth of a child to him, subsequent to the making of a will in which no provision is made in contemplation of such an event, shall be a revocation of the will.
Página 12 - If you believe from the evidence that the goods were sold and delivered by the plaintiff to the defendant, and the charges therefor are reasonable and just, you should consider that the account has been established, and that the plaintiff is entitled to recover.
Página 38 - ... occurs whenever a person acquires the legal title to land or other property by means of an intentionally false and fraudulent verbal promise to hold the same for a certain specified purpose— as, for example, a promise to convey the land to a designated individual, or to reconvey it to the grantor, and the like— and, having thus fraudulently obtained the title, he retains, uses, and claims the property as absolutely his own, so...

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