Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, Volume 154

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State of Iowa, 1912
 

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Page 548 - The court may determine any controversy between parties before it when it can be done without prejudice to the rights of others, or by saving their rights; but when a complete determination of the controversy cannot be had without the presence of other parties, the court must order them to be brought in.
Page 49 - We are of opinion, too, that on the whole case there was sufficient evidence to take the case to the jury on the question of...
Page 74 - Court, on the ground that the verdict was not sustained by sufficient evidence; and that judgment of reversal was affirmed by this court.
Page 363 - Where several persons unite in an act which constitutes a wrong to another, intending at the time to commit it, or doing it under circumstances which fairly charge them with intending the consequences which follow...
Page 212 - Where the instrument contains or a person adds to his signature words indicating that he signs for or on behalf of a principal, or in a representative capacity, he is not liable on the instrument if he was duly authorized; but the mere addition of words describing him as an agent, or as filling a representative character, without disclosing his principal, does not exempt him from personal liability.
Page 300 - A conviction cannot be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless it be corroborated by such other evidence as shall tend to connect the defendant with the commission of the offense ; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely shows the commission of the offense or the circumstances thereof.
Page 178 - No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person...
Page 371 - Without concert of action no joint suit could be brought against the owners of all the collieries, and clearly this must be the test ; for if the defendants can be held liable for the acts of all the others, so each and every other owner can be made liable for all the rest, and the action must be joint and several. But the moment we should find them jointly sued, then the want of concert and the several liability of each...
Page 436 - J.—The parties hereto entered into a written contract, of which the following is a copy: Dated at Laurel, 3-25-1910.
Page 131 - The true rule is that the master is only responsible so long as the servant can be said to be doing the act, in the doing of which he is guilty of negligence, in the course of his employment as servant.

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