 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1102 pages
...NH, 215; Healey v. Tappan, 45 NH, 264. Messrs. Briggs & Huse, for defendant. Clark, J. , delivered the opinion of the court: The question in this case is, whether the estate vested in the widow by an assignment of a homestead in the estate of her deceased husband,... | |
 | 1886 - 1076 pages
...ruling thatjtbe words "pay out of my estate" are au express charge upon realty. Bryan, </., delivered the opinion of the court : The question in this case is whether certain legacies in the will of Elizabeth Kauffmau, deceased, are charged upon her real estate. The... | |
 | United States. Interstate Commerce Commission - 1887 - 1588 pages
...Sanderson, Deputy Atty-Oen. of Pennsylvania, for defendant in error. Mr. Justice Bradley delivered the opinion of the court : The question in this case is whether a State <an constitutionally impose upon a steamship company, incorporated under its laws, a tax upon... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Contracts - 1894 - 576 pages
...donum gratuitum, why is it not sufficient to support a promise to pay money? SPENCER, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court. The question in this case is, whether there is a sufficient consideration for the note on which this suit is founded. It appears from the... | |
 | Ernest Wilson Huffcut, Edwin Hamlin Woodruff - Contracts - 1894 - 762 pages
...for plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court as to the law of the case. SPENCER, CJ, delivered the opinion of the court. The question in this case is, whether there is a sufficient consideration for the note on which this suit is founded. It appears from the... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...whether, for want of jurisdiction, the said suit ought not to be dismissed. MARSHALL, CJ, delivered the opinion of the court. The question in this case is, whether the plaintiffs, as residents of the District of Columbia, can maintain an action in the Circuit Court... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Evidence (Law) - 1900 - 1296 pages
...being produced, were nonsuited. jV. Williams, for the plaintiff. Gold, contra. KENT, CJ, delivered the opinion of the court. The question in this case is, whether proof of the acknowledgment by the defendants, out of court, and before some private person, that they... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1903 - 1116 pages
...Title, pp. 44, 49); also for oil wells and veins of minerals (88 Pa. 32, 198). Tyler, J., delivered the opinion of the court: The question in this case is •whether the plaintiff can maintain the action of ejectment, or should have resorted to an action on t lie case,... | |
 | John Marshall - Political Science - 1905 - 516 pages
...contra. ERROR FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. Marshall, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is, whether the United States, as holders of a protested bill of exchange, which has been negotiated in the ordinary... | |
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HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court. The question in this case is whether the following instrument is entitled to probate: "Washington, DC Aug. 31 
