The Pacific Reporter, Volume 161

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West Publishing Company, 1917
"Comprising all the decisions of the Supreme Courts of California, Kansas, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma, District Courts of Appeal and Appellate Department of the Superior Court of California and Criminal Court of Appeals of Oklahoma." (varies)
 

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Page 403 - Any person may be made a defendant who has or claims an interest in the controversy adverse to the plaintiff, or who is a necessary party to a complete determination or settlement of the question involved therein.
Page 391 - 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. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use, but so long as he maintains the use, he must...
Page 291 - ... then this obligation to be null and void, otherwise to remain in full force and effect.
Page 2 - ... the court below may order the property to be sold and the proceeds thereof to be deposited, to abide the judgment of the...
Page 146 - A warehouseman shall be liable for any loss or injury to the goods caused by his failure to exercise such care in regard to them as a reasonably careful owner of similar goods would exercise, but he shall not be liable, in the absence of an agreement to the contrary, for any loss or injury to the goods which could not have been avoided by the exercise of such care.
Page 418 - All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate, and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree...
Page 246 - ... clerk, for him. But in all cases where a party has an attorney in the action or proceeding, the service of papers, when required, must be upon the attorney instead of the party...
Page 395 - Presentment for payment, to be sufficient, must be made (1) by the holder, or by some person authorized to receive payment on his behalf; (2) at a reasonable hour on a business day...
Page 349 - They are nothing more or less than the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions.
Page 109 - Judgment may be given for or against one or more of several plaintiffs, and for or against one or more of several defendants...

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