Report of Cases Determined by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, Volumen60West Publishing Company, 1906 |
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acres action Affirmed alleged amount appeal appellee assessed assessor authority Bank bond Carr Oil Company cause chapter charge circuit court claim clerk coal Code coke commissioner Constitution contract conveyance conveyed corporation county court court of equity debt decree deed defendant delinquent list Effler election entitled estoppel evidence executed fact fee simple Ferguson Company filed forfeiture fraud Goff grant Grat heirs held injunction intention interest JUDGE judgment jurisdiction jury Kanawha county Kittle lease legislature lien McDowell county ment Newman notice owner paid parties payment person Pfalzgraff plaintiff plaintiff in error poll clerks proceedings provisions purchase purpose question Railroad Randolph county real estate reason record rendered Reversed rule says sell sold statute stockholders suit taxes thereof tion tract of land trust usurious void West Virginia wife Wood county writ of error
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Página 523 - We do not see how a better test can be applied to the question whether reasonable or not, than by considering whether the restraint is such only as to afford a fair protection to the interests of the party in favor of whom it is given, and not so large as to interfere with the interests of the public.
Página 517 - States during the period herein allowed for the completion of the contract by the party of the second part, and the party of the first part...
Página 292 - A valuable consideration in the sense of the law may consist either in some right, interest, profit, or benefit accruing to the one party, or some forbearance, detriment, loss, or responsibility given, suffered, or undertaken by the other.
Página 515 - The party of the first part agrees to pay to the party of the second part...
Página 153 - ... public notice, as may be provided by law. SEC. 12. In all elections for directors or managers of corporations every stockholder shall have the right to vote, in person or by proxy, the number of shares of stock owned by him for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected...
Página 153 - ... for as many persons as there are directors or managers to be elected, or to cumulate said shares and give one candidate as many votes as the number of directors multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them, on the same principle, among as many candidates as he shall think fit; and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner...
Página 334 - We may lay it down as an incontrovertible rule that, where an estate is given to a person generally or indefinitely with a power of disposition, it carries a fee, and the only exception to the rule is where the testator gives to the first taker an estate for life only by certain and express words, and annexes to it a power of disposal. In that particular and special case the devisee for life will not take an estate in fee, notwithstanding the distinct and naked gift of a power of disposition of the...
Página 352 - The constitutional and unconstitutional provisions may even be contained In the same section, and yet be perfectly distinct and separable, so that the first may stand though the last fall.
Página 305 - tenants in common, joint tenants and coparceners, shall be compellable to make partition, and the circuit court of the county wherein the estate, or any part thereof, may be, shall have jurisdiction, In cases of partition, and In the exercise of such jurisdiction, may take cognizance of all questions of law affecting the legal title, that may arise In any proceedings.
Página 633 - The legislature has declared that "no covenant shall be implied in any conveyance of real estate, whether such conveyance contain special covenants or not.