Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, Volume 133Department of Purchase and Supply, 1923 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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acceptance according accused action adverse possession aforesaid agent agreement alleged amount answer appears arrest asked assignment attorney authority bank believe bill building cause changes charged circumstances claim coal Code Commonwealth complainants condition contract contractors counsel crossing damages danger defendant defendant's delivered direction duty effect entered entitled error evidence exceptions express fact failed feet follows further give given ground Held injury instant instruction judge judgment jury land look material matter necessary negligence notice objection Opinion original owner paid parties person plaintiff possession present promise purchase question reasonable received record recover referred refused rendered respect rule signed Stark Statement statute street sufficient suit taken testified testimony tion track train trial court true unless verdict Virginia wire witness
Popular passages
Page 629 - ... among these individuals, but where there is and because there is merely a community of interest among them in the questions of law and fact involved in the general controversy, or in the kind and form of relief demanded and obtained by or against each individual member of the numerous body.
Page 435 - Claims for loss, damage, or delay must be made in writing to the carrier at the point of delivery or at the point of origin within four months after delivery of the property, or in case of failure to make delivery, then within four months after a reasonable time for delivery has elapsed. Unless claims are so made the carrier shall not be liable.
Page 628 - ... some American courts, the weight of authority is simply overwhelming that the jurisdiction may and should be exercised either on behalf of a numerous body of separate claimants against a single party, or on behalf of a single party against such a numerous body, although there is no " common title," nor
Page 405 - Whenever the main purpose and object of the promisor is not to answer for another, but to subserve some pecuniary or business purpose of his own, involving either a benefit to himself or damage to the other contracting party, his promise is not within the statute, although it may be in form a promise to pay the debt of another, and although the performance of it may incidentally have the effect of extinguishing that liability.
Page 299 - An Act to Regulate the Manner in Which Common Carriers Doing Business in This State Shall Adjust Freight Charges and Claims for Loss of or Damage to Freight.
Page 478 - A proposal to accept, or an acceptance, upon terms varying from those offered, is a rejection of the offer, and puts an end to the negotiation, unless the party who made the original offer renews it, or assents to the modification suggested.
Page 90 - The result is, that an. express promise cannot be supported by a consideration from which the law could not imply a promise, except where the express promise does away with a legal suspension or bar of a right of action which, but for such suspension or bar, would be valid.
Page 359 - The trial court, at the instance of appellee, instructed the jury as follows: "The jury are instructed that, although they may believe from the evidence that...
Page 74 - The result of the cases is, that for acts done by the agents of a corporation, either in contractu or in delicto, in the course of its business, and' of their employment, the corporation is responsible, as an individual is responsible under similar circumstances.
Page 631 - In case any of said courts shall find that a suit at law should have been brought in equity or a suit in equity should have been brought at law, the court shall order any amendments to the pleadings which may be necessary to conform them to the proper practice. Any party to the suit shall have the right at any stage of the cause to amend his pleadings so as to obviate the objection that his suit was not brought on the right side of the court.