Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Volume 108

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F.F. Handell, 1903

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Halaman 360 - Absolute safety is unattainable, and employers are not insurers. They are liable for the consequences not of danger but of negligence and the unbending test of negligence in methods, machinery, and appliances is the ordinary usage of the business.
Halaman 150 - The police juries of the several parishes, and the constituted authorities of incorporated towns and cities in this state, shall not hereafter have power to contract any debt or pecuniary liability without fully providing in the ordinance creating the debt the means of paying the principal and interest of the debt so contracted.
Halaman 619 - The steel spring of a watch is made ultimately from iron ore, but by a large number of processes or transformations, each successive step in which Is a distinct process of manufacture, and for which the article so manufactured receives a different name.
Halaman 15 - State, other than extensions or new lines constructed by such railroads ; nor shall the exemption hereinbefore granted apply to any railroad or part of such railroad, the construction of which was begun and the roadbed of which was substantially completed at the date of the adoption of this Constitution. The property or real estate belonging to any military organization of the State of Louisiana which is used by the State National Guard or militia for military purposes, such as arsenals or armories,...
Halaman 579 - An agreement between two or more persons, who, for preventing or putting an end to a lawsuit, adjust their differences, by mutual consent in the manner which they agree on, and which every one of them prefers to the hope of gaining, balanced by the danger of losing.
Halaman 619 - Raw materials may be, and often are. subjected to successive processes of 'manufacture.' each one of which is complete In Itself, but several of which may be required to make the final product.
Halaman 481 - ... no such defect or irregularity in the selection thereof or the summoning of the jury, shall be sufficient cause, if it shall not appear that some fraud has been practiced or some great wrong committed in the selection and the summoning of the jury that would work irreparable injury ; provided, that it shall be good ground to challenge, for cause, any juror who is not qualified to act under the provisions of this act.
Halaman 472 - Where the contract has for its object the gratification of some intellectual enjoyment, whether in religion, morality or taste, or some convenience or other legal gratification, although these are not appreciated in money by the parties, yet damages are due for their breach ; a contract for a religious or charitable foundation, a promise of marriage, or an engagement for a work of some of the fine arts, are objects and examples of this rule.
Halaman 477 - ... in any indictment for murder or manslaughter it shall not be necessary to set forth the manner in which or the means by which the death of the deceased was caused, but it shall be sufficient in every indictment for murder to charge that the defendant did feloniously, wilfully, and of his malice aforethought kill and murder the deceased...
Halaman 50 - If the credit which has been given in pledge becomes due before it is redeemed by the person pawning it, the creditor, by virtue of the transfer which has been made to him, shall be justified in receiving the amount, and in taking measures to recover it. When received, he must apply it to the payment of the debt due to himself, and restore the surplus, should there be any, to the person from whom he held it in pledge.

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