Show RECENT acme points at law in full for the public receipt in tall riven without protest on payment oi undisputed part of claim er ato another part ie disputed and when the money accepted in full satisfaction is beld m v merrill yick 31 L R A to constitute an add satisfaction the court says uto bold otherwise would be a recognition of mental reservation more effective than just the of ancestors through whom kinship ie traced is held in beavan v went 31 L R A 3 to be fatal to inheritance and a statutory provision that an estate shall descend in equal parts of kin is bield not to make ane descent to collateral kindred immediate so as to avoid this rule A change in the statutes as to inheritance by aliens between the death of a testator and the time when an executory devise to beira at law took effect is held in de wolf vs middleton R I 1 R A to civo an alien heir the right to share in such executory devise in this case one who had become a resident of a foreign country seems to have been treated as an alien nonresident non resident aliens are held entitled to inherit from an alien resident in East onva huott iowa 31 LRA under statutes which prohibit nonresident aliens from acquiring title to land in ane state except that the widow and heirs of an alien who baa acquired lands inthe state may holu them by devise or descent for a period of ten years this provision is held to be without restriction as to the place of residence of the widow and heirs or of the alien ancestor owning lands in the elate A corporation shipping goods out of the state to fill orders in the course of business is bield in queen city mag mfg co vs blalack miss 31 L R A render itself liable to attachment for removing property out of the stale if this is done after it becomes insolvent and the goods are to be delivered outside of the state so that they remain the property of the corporation when they are sent out of the state the court says it is immaterial that the business cannot successfully conducted unless the property may be sent to markets outside of the state for sale criminal liability of a banker for receiving money with knowledge that be ie insolvent ie discussed in corn vs judkin pat 31 L R A but where he put the money into a special envelope with intent to return it to abo depositor and this was afterwards dona he was held not to be guilty the other authorities on criminal liability for receiving ce deposits in banks known to be insolvent are found in a note to the case the negotiability of a note is hed in anniston loan T co vs stickney ala 31 L R A to be by an option indorsed upon its back for extension by a new note similar to the original A note to the case presents the other authorities on provisions bof renewal as affecting negotiability of a note A person on a railroad train who helps to carry a passenger taken sick on the train into another car at request of the conductor and who is injured by negligence of the carriera servants while assisting to per forta this servi ceia held in lake shore M S R co vs baizman ohio 81 L R A to be entitled to recover damages of the carrier the court says he was entitled to at least ordinary care on their part for his protection from injury A note to the case presents the other decisions as to the duty of the carrier to passengers taken ill during a journey the right to be carried in a passenger coach instead of a baggage car is declared in baltimore P R co vs swann L R to belong to a passenger who purchases a ticket for a regular passenger train unless the as safe a vehicle as caff be procured by the utmost care and diligence the annotation to the jaee reviews the decisions as to the duty to furnish proper care jor passengers A fund contributed for the of sufferers euffer ers from a fire by persons whose identity is lost so that a surplus cannot be returned to them Is add in doyle vs abalen 87 R A to be rightfully used only for the benefit of euch sufferers and an attempt of the committee to uso it for the support of the town poor generally after they thought the actual destitution or dia resulting from the fire had been relieved was decided to be unlawful the exemption ofa charitable corporation ouch as a hospital irom liability for injuries caused by wrongful neglect of servants who have been with due care is sustained in hearns vs waterbury hospital conn 31 L R A in which the other authorities on the subject are reviewed at length A complete defense under the of limitations is a property right which iu board of education VH blodgett 15 L R is declared to be the protection guaranty of of law and be yond the power 0 the legislature to take away the fact that the defense pertains to the remedy is held to be no reason for denying protection to it as the deprivation of a remedy is equivalent to the a right unless no remedy is for it |