Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Alabama, Nide 131 |
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action adverse possession affirmative charge agreement Alabama alleged amended amount appeal appellee arrest assigns as error Asso averred bill of exceptions bill of sale Birmingham cause chancery court Circuit Court cited claim Clay county Code complainant contract conveyance conveyed court of equity creditor Crenshaw damages debt deceased decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer detinue duly excepted ejectment Ency equity evidence executed facts fendant filed indictment injury interest issue judgment jury lands letters testamentary lien liquors loan Lowndes county ment Montgomery mortgage motion negligence overruled paid parties payment person petition plaintiff plea pleadings Pollard street possession probate court promissory note prosecution purchase question railroad company recover refused rendered rule shown Smith sold Southern Railway Company statute sued sufficient suit sustained Taylor tending to show testified testimony thereof tiff tion to-wit trust verdict Watts witness
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Sivu 299 - The court charges the jury that if they find from the evidence that the...
Sivu 243 - The right to organize voluntary religious associations to assist in the expression and dissemination of any religious doctrine, and to create tribunals for the decision of controverted questions of faith within the association, and for the ecclesiastical government of all the individual members, congregations and officers within the general association, is unquestioned. All who unite themselves to such a body do so with an implied consent to this [internal church] government, and are bound to submit...
Sivu 387 - ... which, if taken from him, will reduce the number of his legal votes below the number of legal votes given to some other person for the same office...
Sivu 198 - The intent of this agreement is to preserve the rights of all parties hereto and provide for an investigation of the fire and the determination of the amount of the loss or damage, in order that the party of the first part...
Sivu 243 - All who unite themselves to such a body do so with an implied consent to this government, and are bound to submit to it. But it would be a vain consent, and would lead to the total subversion of such religious bodies, if any one aggrieved by one of their decisions could appeal to the secular courts and have them reversed. It is of the essence of these religious unions, and of their right to establish tribunals for the decision of questions arising among themselves, that those decisions should be...
Sivu 244 - In this class of cases we think the rule of action which should govern the civil courts, founded in a broad and sound view of the relations of Church and State under our system of laws, and supported by a preponderating weight of judicial authority, is that, whenever the questions of discipline or of faith or ecclesiastical rule, custom or law, have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final,...
Sivu 366 - I nshort, a physician or surgeon is bound to bestow such reasonable and ordinary care, skill and diligence as physicians and surgeons in the same neighborhood, in the same general line of practice, ordinarily have and exercise in like cases.
Sivu 228 - The defendant, as a witness in his own behalf, testified that he told Race that he was then ready to deliver the hops to the plaintiffs ; that 40odd bales were in the warehouse at Brooks station on the morning of the 10th of October, and had been for some time previous; that afterward and on that day he caused 29 or 30 bales more to be hauled by his workmen to...
Sivu 33 - On a prosecution for homicide, the court charged that if the plea of an alibi was not interposed in good faith, or the evidence to sustain it was simulated, it was a discrediting circumstance, which the jury could consider, with the other evidence, in determining the guilt or innocence of the defendant.
Sivu 37 - ... a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county or district in which the offense is alleged to have been committed.