Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, Volume 97

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Halaman 261 - A statute declaring that the word "ton" should thereafter be held, in prior as well as subsequent contracts, to mean half or double the weight before prescribed, would affect its construction. A statute providing that a previous contract of indebtment may be extinguished by a process of bankruptcy would involve its discharge, and a statute forbidding the sale of any of the debtor's property, under a judgment upon such a contract, would relate to the remedy.
Halaman 265 - If any subsequent law affect to diminish the duty, or to impair the right, it necessarily bears on the obligation of the contract, in favor of one party to the injury of the other ; hence any law, which in its operation amounts to a denial or obstruction of the rights accruing by a contract, though professing to act only on the remedy, is directly obnoxious to the prohibition of the Constitution.
Halaman 126 - States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Halaman 239 - ... in case of any fraud or false swearing by the insured touching any matter relating to this insurance or the subject thereof, whether before or after a loss.
Halaman 431 - ... of their property without due process of law or of the equal protection of the laws.
Halaman 555 - Denny, the plaintiff in error, seized them by virtue of a writ of attachment issued out of the Circuit Court of the United States for...
Halaman 262 - It is also settled that the laws which subsist at the time and place of the making of a contract, and where it is to be performed, enter into and form a part of it, as if they were expressly referred to or incorporated in its terms. This principle embraces alike those which affect its validity, construction, discharge, and enforcement.
Halaman 264 - The obligation of a contract consists in its binding force on the party who makes it. This depends on the laws in existence when it is made ; these are necessarily referred to in all contracts, and...
Halaman 338 - whenever a party undertakes to do any act as the agent of another, if he does not possess any authority from the principal therefor, or if he exceeds the authority delegated to him, he will be personally liable to the person with whom he is dealing for or on account of his principal :
Halaman 13 - ... 6. The publication of a false, or grossly inaccurate report of its proceedings ; but no court can punish as a contempt, the publication of true, full and fair reports of any trial, argument, proceedings, or decision had in such court.

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