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3,701.
S.S. Richelieu v. Cie Navigation Saguenay et Lac St. Jean - [1945] SCR 659 - 1945-06-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
A. Pouliot K.C. and William Morin K.C. for the respondents. [Page 661] [...] Solicitor for the respondents: William Morin. [1] [1902] P. 250, at 253.
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3,702.
The King v. Northumberland Ferries Ltd. - [1945] SCR 458 - 1945-05-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsExpropriation
So far as this Court is concerned, the first statement of such a principle appears in the judgment of Sir William Ritchie in Valin v. Langlois[16]. [...] In Canadian Northern Ontario Ry. Co. v. Smith[25], the Chief Justice, Sir Charles Fitzpatrick, with whom Idington J. agreed, adapted the quotation from Sir William Ritchie's judgment [...] In Cedars Rapids Manufacturing and Power Company v. Lacoste[64], Lord Dunedin, in delivering the judgment of the Privy Council, at page 576, approved of the judgments of Vaughan Williams and Fletcher Moulton L.JJ., in the case of In Re Lucas and Chesterfield Gas and Water Board[65], in which judgments the principles
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3,703.
Attorney-General of Canada v. Higbie - [1945] SCR 385 - 1945-03-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
They also claim title, through a Crown grant, to District Lot 185 unto Sam Brighouse, William Hailstone and John Morton, dated the 20th of May, 1867, or alternatively through prescription; and they also contend that anything done by them on the foreshore in question was done exclusively in the exercise of their riparian [...] (Bacon's "Abridgment", pp. 383, 384 and 385; Holdsworth's "History of English Law", pp. 341 and 362; Williams v. Howarth[47] ; In re Silver Bros. [...] One is based upon a grant under the Great Seal of the Colony of British Columbia, dated May 20, 1867, whereby there was granted unto Sam Brighouse, William Hailstone and John Morton, their heirs and assigns,
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3,704.
Hoefle v. Bongard & Company - [1945] SCR 360 - 1945-03-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
But so far as the circumstances permit, they are to be the ground of conclusions of probability: Williams v. Peel River Land and Mineral Company Ltd.[5] The case is analogous to that of a breach of covenant to re-deliver shares and prima facie the defendants are held to have prevented the shares from remaining the property
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3,705.
Oatway v. The Canadian Wheat Board - [1945] SCR 204 - 1945-02-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
In support of this motion an affidavit of William Aitken, accountant of the Canadian Wheat Board, of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba was filed. [...] The Board's motion is supported by affidavits by Thomas William Grindley, secretary of the Canadian Wheat Board, and Henry B. Monk, barrister, of the city of Winnipeg. [...] Section 8, (subsections (d) to (g)), provide that the Board shall set up a proper system of accounting, appoint responsible outside auditors, make weekly audited reports of its operations to the Minister and any other reports he may require, all of which has been done, according to the affidavit of William Aitken.
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3,706.
Schmidt v. The King - [1945] SCR 438 - 1945-02-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William Schmidt (Plaintiff) Appellant; and His Majesty The King (Defendant) Respondent. [...] KERWIN J.—William Schmidt appeals against the affirmance of his conviction for murder by the Court of Appeal for Ontario based on the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Laidlaw.
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3,707.
Thompson et al. v. Lamport et al. - [1945] SCR 343 - 1945-02-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsCivil procedure
Stirling J., in In re Llewellin, Llewellin v. Williams[12], uses this language:
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3,708.
Aga Heat (Canada) Ltd. v. Brockville Hotel Co. - [1945] SCR 184 - 1945-02-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
(The Nautilus Steamship Co. Ltd. v. David and William Henderson & Co. Ltd., 1919 Sess. [...] at this work who knew when the main or any duct had been cleaned, there is no evidence that he had knowledge of the risk, and it was for the appellants to prove that the respondents “knew the dangers attending the use of their machines.” The Nautilus Steamship Co. Ltd. v. David and William Henderson & Co. Ltd.[4] [...] The Nautilus Steamship Co. Ltd. v. David and William Henderson & Co. Ltd.4; H. & C. Grayson Ltd. v. Ellerman Line Ltd.[5]; The Pass of Ballater[6]; Honeywill & Stein Ltd. v. Larkin Bros.
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3,709.
City of Saskatoon v. Shaw - [1945] SCR 42 - 1944-12-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
The decision in the Baker case[7] was followed in subsequent cases: In re Bursaw Estate[8], and Williams v. Moody[9], so that it was the accepted law in that province until the Act of 1940 that a widow had an absolute right to a one-third share in her late husband's estate, save where there was available to the executors or
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3,710.
SCR | RCS [1944] - 1944-11-23
Canada Supreme Court ReportsE. K. Williams K.C. for the appellants. P. C. Locke and H. B. Monk for the respondent. [...] Williams resided in Fort THE KING Erie, Ontario, and was an employee of The Williams Gold WIn ' i&Ms. Refining Company of Canada, Limited, which carried on business there. [...] The appellant also relied on the decision of the Privy Council in Rex v. Williams (2).
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3,711.
Braun v. The Custodian - [1944] SCR 339 - 1944-10-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsInternational law
The considerations which applied in Rex. v. Williams, [1942] A.C. 541, cannot affect the matter for consideration in the present case). [...] The appellant also relied on the decision of the Privy Council in Rex v. Williams[8].
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3,712.
Dominion Glass Co. Ltd. v. The Ship Anglo Indian and Her Owners - [1944] SCR 409 - 1944-10-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
The point, he continues, was arguable but what had turned the scale in the earlier Court of Appeal case was that to come to the result opposite to that of the decision would be, as Vaughan Williams L.J., put it
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3,713.
Fleming et al. v. Watts et al. - [1944] SCR 360 - 1944-10-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
Andrew J. Fleming and William E. Adams (Plaintiffs) Appellants; and [...] In the year 1934 the appellant Fleming entered into a contract to buy, for the sum of $7,000, a lot on the east side of William Street in Chatham, Ontario. [...] It was contiguous on the south to a lot on the corner of William and Wellington Streets, then owned by the deceased, Robert Milner, represented by the respondents.
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3,714.
Boxenbaum v. Wise - [1944] SCR 292 - 1944-06-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
Sir William Meredith, speaking on behalf of the Ontario Court of Appeal, in Maitland v. McKenzie[2], with reference to a similar Ontario enactment, stated as to this point at page 510:
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3,715.
The King v. Williams - [1944] SCR 226 - 1944-05-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsStatutes
The King v. Williams, , [1944] SCR 226 Supreme Court of Canada The King v. Williams, [1944] S.C.R. 226 [...] Lloyd Cameron Williams (Defendant) Respondent. 1944: March 15; 1944: May 15. [...] Williams resided in Fort Erie, Ontario, and was an employee of The Williams Gold Refining Company of Canada, Limited, which carried on business there.
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3,716.
Pacific Great Eastern Railway Co. v. Bridge River Power Co. Ltd. - [1944] SCR 196 - 1944-04-25
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Transportation
See: Watson v. North British Ry. Co [7]; William Barr & Sons v. Caledonian Ry. Co. [8].
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3,717.
Petrie v. Petrie - [1944] SCR 246 - 1944-04-25
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Petrie and two of his sons, namely, the defendant William Kenneth Raymond Petrie, and James Coben Petrie (now deceased, of whose estate the plaintiff is the administratrix), on certain land which consisted of the farm of the said Thomas Petrie, the farm of the said William Kenneth Raymond Petrie and the farm of the said [...] In Boulter v. Peplow[4] Maule J., with whom Williams J. and Talfourd J. agreed, stated that "prima facie, where one of three joint-contractors who are jointly sued, pays the whole debt, he is entitled to receive contribution from the other two"; and later: "There is nothing that I can discover here, to show that these
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3,718.
More et al. v. Sweezey - [1944] SCR 111 - 1944-02-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsTrust
E. K. Williams K.C. for the appellants. P. C. Locke and H. B. Monk for the respondent.
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3,719.
Greenbank v. The National Supply Co. - [1944] SCR 59 - 1943-12-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
In accordance with the writer's telephone conversation with you as of to-day, I am enclosing a financial statement taken off October 2nd, as of July 31st, 1937, by William Ireland, chartered accountant of Pacalta well.
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3,720.
SCR | RCS [1943] - 1943-10-18
Canada Supreme Court ReportsDICKSON. It is submitted on behalf of the appellant that, at the Tasehereata time of the collision, the late William Parker Dickson was driving his car in a state of intoxication and that the risk resulting from such a conduct was not covered by the terms of the policy. [...] While the - evidence is meagre, it justifies a conclusion that Anna Ponyicki could be so described, and by her death the husband sustained "a substantial injury and one for which it was the intention of the legislature to indemnify the husband" (per Sir William Ritchie, C.J., in the Lett case, at 433) (3). [...] Solicitor for the appellant: William A. MacRae. Solicitors for the (plaintiffs) respondents: Smart & Biggar. 1943 LE COMITE PARITAIRE DE L'INDUS-TRIE DE L'IMPRIMERIE DE MONT - APPELLANT; Oct. 6.
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3,721.
G. v. G. - [1943] SCR 527 - 1943-10-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsFamily law
These are well indicated in the following excerpt from a pronouncement of the greatest expositor of this field of law, Sir William Scott (as he then was)[10]:
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3,722.
Spun Rock Wools Ltd. v. Fiberglas Canada Ltd. - [1943] SCR 547 - 1943-10-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsIntellectual property
Solicitor for the appellant: William A. MacRae. Solicitors for the (plaintiffs) respondents: Smart & Biggar.
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3,723.
Ponyicki v. Sawayama - [1943] SCR 197 - 1943-04-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
While the evidence is meagre, it justifies a conclusion that Anna Ponyicki could be so described, and by her death the husband sustained "a substantial injury and one for which it was the intention of the legislature to indemnify the husband" (per Sir William Ritchie, C.J., in the Lett case, at 433) [15]. [...] The gain in money to the husband under that Act accrued to him by reason of the death of his wife although one-half came from another source, and the total should therefore be deducted from the award under the Families' Compensation Act. In the Davies case (1), Mrs. Williams, one of the appellants, took all the damages
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3,724.
Temple v. Bulmer - [1943] SCR 265 - 1943-04-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsPrerogative writs
William Temple (Plaintiff) Appellant; and C.F. Bulmer (Defendant) Respondent.
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3,725.
American Automobile Ins. Co. v. Dickson - [1943] SCR 143 - 1943-02-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsMotor vehicles
In May, 1937, the appellant, the American Automobile Insurance Company, had issued in favour of the late William Parker Dickson an insurance policy known as a combination automobile policy, where it undertook to indemnify the latter against loss or damages which the insured might become liable to pay for injury caused to [...] It is submitted on behalf of the appellant that, at the time of the collision, the late William Parker Dickson was driving his car in a state of intoxication and that the risk resulting from such a conduct was not covered by the terms of the policy.