Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana, Volume 130Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Benjamin Harrison, Gordon Tanner, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, John Worth Kern, Francis Marion Dice, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1892 "With tables of the cases and principal matters" (varies). |
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Page 150 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers and no others: First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient but indispensable.
Page 273 - ... the party of the second part is concerned, should he die first, — now, therefore, in consideration of the payment of the sum of one dollar by the party of the first part to the party of the second part...
Page 551 - If the remedy at law . is sufficient, equity cannot give relief, "but it is not enough that * there is a remedy at law; it must be plain and adequate, or. in other words, as practical and efficient to the ends of justice, and its prompt administration, as the remedy in equity.
Page 151 - ... implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those essential to the declared objects and purposes of the corporation, not simply convenient, but indispensable. Any fair, reasonable doubt concerning the existence of power is resolved by the courts against the corporation, and the power is denied. Of every municipal corporation the charter or statute by which it is created is its organic act. Neither the corporation nor its officers can do any act, or make any contract, or incur...
Page 152 - It is well settled that laws and regulations of this character, though they may disturb the enjoyment of individual rights, are not unconstitutional, though no provision is made for compensation for such disturbances.
Page 119 - County, at the regular township election in the year 1888, duly qualified and entered upon the discharge of his duties as such, and is yet in the possession of the office, claiming title thereto.
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Page 202 - They are in every instance the sole judges of the facts, and, when called as grand jurors, they are the judges of the law as well as of the facts.
Page 384 - If he suffers injury, it is either damnum absque injuria, or, in the theory of the law, he is compensated for it by sharing in the general benefits which the regulations are intended and calculated to secure.
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