Cases Determined in the St. Louis and the Kansas City Courts of Appeals of the State of Missouri, Volume 107

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E. W. Stephens., 1905
 

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Page 278 - A communication made bona fide upon any subject-matter In which the party communicating has an interest, or in reference to which he has a duty, is privileged if made to a person having a corresponding interest or duty, although it contain criminatory matter, which, without this privilege, would be slanderous and actionable...
Page 73 - Indeed, we think it may be laid down as a legal principle that in all occupations which are attended with great and unusual danger there must be used all appliances readily attainable known to science for the prevention of accidents, and that the neglect to provide such readily attainable appliances will be regarded as proof of culpable negligence.
Page 366 - THIS INDENTURE, made this day of , in the year One thousand, nine hundred and , between of , the party of the first part...
Page 58 - The court Instructs the Jury that If they find from the evidence that the...
Page 513 - An action for criminal conversation, or for any other injury to the person or rights of another, not arising on contract-, and not hereinafter enumerated.
Page 357 - ... and filed with the clerk during the same term. After the term has expired, without the court's control over the case being reserved by standing rule or special order, and especially after a writ of error has been entered in this court, all authority of the court below to allow a bill of exceptions then first presented, or to alter or to amend a bill of exceptions already allowed and filed, is at an end.
Page 659 - ... wish; in coming to this conclusion, to be distinctly understood as affirming and maintaining the broad doctrine, as a doctrine of equity, that, so far as an innocent purchaser for a valuable consideration, without notice of any infirmity in his title, has, by his improvements and meliorations, added to the permanent value of the estate, he is entitled to a full...
Page 40 - Instruction, then your verdict must be for the defendant (3) The court instructs the Jury that if the plaintiff has made, as a witness in his own behalf before you, any statements adverse to his Interest, such statements, for the purpose of this trial, must be taken as true, in so far as said statements are adverse to the plaintiff.

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