Cases in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: Being Those Cases Not Designated to be Reported by the State Reporter from 1885 to 1889, Band 9Lawyers' co-operative publishing Company, 1904 |
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Seite 60 - All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects within the territorial limits, of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws...
Seite 171 - It is a familiar canon of construction that a thing which is within the intention of the makers of a statute is as much within the statute as if it were within the letter; and a thing which is within the letter of the statute is not within the statute unless it be within the intention of the makers.
Seite 361 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Seite 236 - ... that an act of the legislature passed in 1868 provided "that the West Kishacoquillas Valley Turnpike Road Company incorporated by the act approved second day of April, 1853, may from time to time, by a vote of the stockholders, at a meeting called for that purpose, increase the...
Seite 633 - The term corporations as used in this article, shall be construed to include all associations and joint stock companies having any of the powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships.
Seite 28 - ... property or easement, pipes are to be laid, as to the manner of laying the pipes and the character thereof, with respect to safety and public convenience, it shall be the duty of the court of common pleas of the proper county, upon the petition of either party to the dispute, upon a hearing to be had to define by its decree what precautions, if any, shall be taken in the laying of pipes, and, by injunction, to restrain their being laid in any other way than as decreed.
Seite 100 - If they were called upon to value the Injury at the moment when compensation could first be demanded. They are to value the injury to the property without reference to the person of the owner, or the actual state of his business, and In doing that the only safe rule Is to inquire what the property, unaffected by the obstruction, would have sold for at the time the Injury was committed.
Seite 28 - ... be entitled to and possessed of all the privileges, immunities, franchises, and powers conferred by this act upon corporations to be created under the same...
Seite 549 - Where an employee, after having the opportunity of becoming acquainted with the risks of his situation, accepts them, he cannot complain if he is subsequently injured by such exposure.
Seite 29 - ... had been originally acquired by and under the authority of this act; and such company or corporation shall thereafter be governed solely by the provisions of this act...