The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States with Notes and References, Volume 15Bancroft-Whitney - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 224
... cause to this court by writ of error , and in July , 1870 , we reversed the judgment of the Circuit Court , and remanded the case for a new trial . During that year the cause was a second time tried before a jury in the court below ...
... cause to this court by writ of error , and in July , 1870 , we reversed the judgment of the Circuit Court , and remanded the case for a new trial . During that year the cause was a second time tried before a jury in the court below ...
Page 368
... cause , and suffer in uncomplaining silence ? If A should own a field of forty acres , and the whole of it should be overrun by fire , we suppose he could recover for the whole loss ; then why should not B recover for a part of the same ...
... cause , and suffer in uncomplaining silence ? If A should own a field of forty acres , and the whole of it should be overrun by fire , we suppose he could recover for the whole loss ; then why should not B recover for a part of the same ...
Page 369
... cause of the burning of the hay - rick thirty rods , or four miles , away . The first efficient and adequate cause , as well as every intermediate cause necessarily following from the first cause , is always held in law to be the proximate ...
... cause of the burning of the hay - rick thirty rods , or four miles , away . The first efficient and adequate cause , as well as every intermediate cause necessarily following from the first cause , is always held in law to be the proximate ...
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