Arkansas Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Arkansas, at the ..., Volume 151Woodruff Print. Company, 1922 |
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adverse possession affirmed alleged amount appellant appellant's appellee Arkansas assessment attorney cause of action chancery court charge Circuit Court claim Commissioner complaint constitute contract cotton county court court erred court of equity Crawford & Moses Crittenden County damages deceased December 12 decree deed defendant Digest district dower engineers equity error evidence fact favor fee simple filed held indictment instruction issue Judge judgment jurisdiction jury killed land lant lease liable lien liquor ment negligence offense Opinion delivered December paid parties payment pellant pellee plaintiff Polk County possession premium proof prosecuting purchase purpose question railroad reason refused rendered rent reversed road sold statement statute statute of frauds statute of limitations sufficient suit term testified testimony thereof tion Tompkins track tract trial trust underwriting profit verdict W. H. Evans warrant wife witness
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Page 119 - A widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage, unless she shall have lawfully released her right thereto.
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Page 84 - ... they are entitled to place themselves in the same situation as the parties who made the contract, so as to view the circumstances as they viewed them, and so to judge of the meaning of the words and of the correct application of the language to the things described.
Page 206 - That the act or omission charged as the offense, is stated with such a degree of certainty as to enable the court to pronounce judgment upon a conviction, according to the right of the case.
Page 284 - ... that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain the verdict, and that the trial court erred in giving and refusing to give certain instructions.
Page 206 - A statement of the acts constituting the offense, in ordinary and concise language, and in such manner as to enable a person of common understanding to know what is intended.
Page 79 - Springs refused to accept the ticket for that portion of the trip, and demanded and collected fare from Butterfield to Hot Springs, this would not constitute two overcharges, nor subject the railway company to two penalties. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the appellee in the sum of $50. The court awarded the appellee $40 as an attorney's fee, and entered judgment against the appellee accordingly, from which Is this appeal.