Reports of Cases at Law and in Equity Determined by the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa, Volume 90State of Iowa, 1895 |
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74 Iowa action AFFIRMED agent agreement alleged amount answer appeals.-Affirmed appellant appellee applied assessments attachment authority averred building cause Cedar County cents certificate charge claim Code contract conveyance Council Bluffs damages decree deed defendant defendant's demurrer district court District Court.-HON engineer entitled equity error evidence executed fact filed Fremont county given ground held homestead hundred dollars indictment injury instruction interest Iowa issued JANUARY 29 John Weidman Judge judgment jury land liability lien liquors lots ment mortgage motion N. W. Rep negligence notes notice objection overruled paid parties payment petition plaintiff pleadings possession promissory notes question railway company real estate reason record recover residence rule sheriff's deed sold statute suit taxes testimony therein thereof thousand dollars tiff tion track train trial verdict Webster county wife witness Woodbury county
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Page 500 - ... transported Into any State or Territory, or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale or storage therein, shall upon arrival In such State or Territory be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though such liquids or liquors had been produced in such State or Territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein In original packages or...
Page 710 - This entire policy, unless otherwise provided by agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto, shall be void if the insured now has or shall hereafter make or procure any other contract of insurance, whether valid or not, on property covered in whole or in part by this policy...
Page 269 - It must not be forgotten that you are not to extend arbitrarily those rules which say that a given contract is void as being against public policy, because if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting, and that their contracts, when entered into freely and voluntarily, shall be held sacred, and shall be enforced by courts of justice.
Page 72 - Where it is a simple question of authority to contract, arising either on a question of regularity of organization or of power conferred by the charter, a party who has had the benefit of the agreement cannot be permitted in an action founded upon it to question its validity. It would be in the highest degree inequitable and unjust to permit a defendant to repudiate a contract, the benefit of which he retains.
Page 494 - ... 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 269 - Public policy is variable; the very reverse of that which is the policy of the public at one time may become public policy at another; hence no fixed rule can be given by which to determine what is public policy.
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Page 574 - The appellate court must render judgment according to the justice of the case, without regard to technical errors or defects which do not affect the merits.
Page 601 - And in cases where passengers and freight pass over continuous lines or routes operated by more than one common carrier, and the several common carriers operating such lines or routes establish joint tariffs of rates or fares or charges for such continuous lines or routes, copies of such joint tariffs shall also, in like manner, be filed with said commission.