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  • 3,726.

    Hinkson v. Harmes - [1943] SCR 61 - 1943-02-02

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Estates

    Williams on Executors, 12th Edition, page 27: It is said by Lord Coke, in the Marquis of Winchester's Case[6], that it is not sufficient that the testator be of memory when he makes his Will to answer familiar and usual questions, but he ought to have a disposing memory so as to be able to make a disposition of his property

  • 3,727.

    Morice v. Davidson - [1943] SCR 94 - 1943-02-02

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Estates

    E. K. Williams K.C. for the respondents. The judgment of the Court was delivered by

  • 3,728.

    National Trust Co. Ltd. v. Osadchuk - [1943] SCR 89 - 1943-02-02

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Estates

    These investments consisted in, (1) a mortgage dated 31st December, 1919, from one William Mont Lock, covering a half section of land in Saskatchewan, to secure the repayment of $1,300; (2) a mortgage dated October 29th, 1919, from one Swaney John Thorarinson to the company, covering another half section of land, to secure

  • 3,729.

    SCR | RCS [1942] - 1942-11-12

    Canada Supreme Court Reports

    William down the Great Lakes, or vice versa. The collision happened at 5.30 a.m., nine miles west of Passage Island.   [...]  The grain was part of a cargo of wheat shipped at Port Arthur and/or Fort William, Ontario, on the (1) Barlow D.J.A. 8 Ins. LR. 121.   [...]  Solicitors for the respondent: Field, Hyndman & McLean. 1942 ALFRED WILLIAM LUDDITT AND (PLAINTIFFS) APPELLANTS; * May 5 6, 7.

  • 3,730.

    The King v. Hughes - [1942] SCR 517 - 1942-11-12

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Criminal law

    Robert Hughes, John Petryk William G. Billamy, Floyd Berrigan Respondents.

  • 3,731.

    Keystone Transports Ltd. v. Dominion Steel & Coal Corporation, Ltd. - [1942] SCR 495 - 1942-11-03

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Transportation

    It alleges in its declaration that at all material times it was the owner of a cargo of nails, staples and wire shipped on board the defendant's steamer Keynor at Sydney, N.S., s on or about August the 11th, 1937, and bound for Fort William, Ontario.   [...]  The goods which were received for carriage by the defendant in good condition, were found to be seriously damaged by water when they arrived at Fort William.   [...]   reversing by a majority, a judgment of the Superior Court, and maintaining an action instituted by the respondents, claiming $2,842.75 as damage to a shipment of kegs of nails, staples and wire on board the appellant's steamer Keynor, on a voyage from Sydney, N.S., to Fort William, Ont., during the month of August, 1937.

  • 3,732.

    Edmonton (City) v. W. W. Sales Ltd. - [1942] SCR 467 - 1942-10-06

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Labour law

    About three o'clock on the afternoon of January 13th, 1940, S. P. Wilson, who was president and manager of the defendant company, ordered Roy A. Eckstrom, one of the defendant's employees, to take with him another employee, William Fleming, and to go to the basement of the Sheldon block, and there clean up these premises

  • 3,733.

    Ludditt v. Ginger Coote Airways Ltd. - [1942] SCR 406 - 1942-10-06

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Transportation

    Alfred William Ludditt and Others (Plaintiffs) Appellants; and Ginger Coote Airways Ltd. (Defendant) Respondent.

  • 3,734.

    Township of Tisdale v. Cavana - [1942] SCR 384 - 1942-10-06

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Taxation

    Allan G. Cavana and William Griffith Bingham (Executor of the Estate of Horace A. Bingham, Deceased) (Plaintiffs) Respondents.

  • 3,735.

    Insurance Company of North America v. Colonial Steamships Ltd. - [1942] SCR 357 - 1942-06-26

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Transportation

    The grain was part of a cargo of wheat shipped at Port Arthur and/or Fort William, Ontario, on the   [...]  at and from FORT WILLIAM and/or PORT ARTHUR to MONTREAL via PORT COLBORNE   [...]  at and from FORT WILLIAM AND/OR PORT ARTHUR TO PORT COLBORNE, INCLUDING WINTER STORAGE WHILE THERE ON BOARD THE S/S NORTHTON AND THENCE TO MONTREAL.

  • 3,736.

    Sideleau v. Davidson (Controverted election for the Electoral District of Stanstead) - [1942] SCR 306 - 1942-06-26

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Elections

    But, as Mr. Justice Vaughan Williams held in the Rochester case, in order to obtain the benefit of this section a candidate must bring himself strictly within its terms.

  • 3,737.

    Canada Permanent Mortgage Corporation v. Cheese and The Chief Commissioner of the Board of Review - [1942] SCR 291 - 1942-05-05

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Contract

    Under the stricter rules of the Bankruptcy Act the court has power to consider cases where there is only a single creditor: see In re Geiger[7] and In re Hacquard[8]; Williams on Bankruptcy, page 99.

  • 3,738.

    Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. Larocque - [1942] SCR 205 - 1942-03-20

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Family law
    Insurance

    And Chief Justice Hughes, delivering the opinion of the United States Supreme Court, in Williams v. Union Central Life Insurance Company[18], says:

  • 3,739.

    In re Bozanich / A.H. Boulton Co. Ltd. v. Trusts and Guarantee Co. Ltd. - [1942] SCR 130 - 1942-03-03

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Bankruptcy and insolvency

    In that case, Vaughan Williams J. approved the construction of Cave J. in the Player case8; and, applying it to the facts in the case then before him, he found that the donor contemplated the retention by his wife of the present which he gave her, and accordingly held the gift void against the trustee in bankruptcy.

  • 3,740.

    In Re West Estate - [1942] SCR 120 - 1942-02-03

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Estates

    to my sister Emma Melissa Carr; one residuary portion to be paid to Annie West, widow of Edward Charles West of Campbell-ford, Ontario; one residuary portion to be paid to Martha Emily West, widow of Samuel John West, late of Campbellford aforesaid; and one residuary portion to be paid to William Newton Redner, son of my

  • 3,741.

    Paterson Steamships Ltd. v. Ship New York News - [1942] SCR 19 - 1941-10-20

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Transportation

    owned by Paterson Steamships Limited, collided in Lake Superior, during a dense fog, the visibility being limited to between two and three hundred feet, while proceeding in opposite directions on or about the courses usually followed by ships bound from Port Arthur or Fort William down the Great Lakes, or vice versa.   [...]   tons of the canal type, having a length of 256 feet over all, which was on a voyage from Port Arthur to Montreal laden with grain; and the Fort Willdoc, a single screw steamship of 4,542 gross tons, having a keel length of 416 feet, which was proceeding light in the opposite direction from Port Col-borne to Fort William.   [...]  As the learned President of the Exchequer Court of Canada says, both ships were proceeding on or about the courses usually frequented by ships in Lake Superior, bound from Port Arthur or Fort William to eastern Canadian ports on the Great Lakes, and vice versa.

  • 3,742.

    SCR | RCS [1941] - 1941-10-20

    Canada Supreme Court Reports

    William Hanes failed in his duty to the infant plaintiff to exercise that care when his employee, Frank Hanes, was guilty of negligence, and William Hanes must also be held liable in damages.   [...]  S.C.R.] SUPREME COURT OF CANADA 481 WILLIAM KOUFIS APPELLANT; , 1941 * April30.   [...]  A. Would he have William McLure. Q. Would he have William McLure—? A. Come to the house.

  • 3,743.

    McKay v. Clow - [1941] SCR 643 - 1941-10-07

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Contract

    William N. McKay (Complainant) Appellant; and J. Cameron Clow, G. Hazel Clow and Lucy Ada McKay (Defendants) Respondents.   [...]  for and during the term of their and each of their natural lives without impeachment of waste, and from and after the decease of the said William N. McKay and Lucy Ada McKay or the survivor of them to the use of the said J. Cameron Clow and G. Hazel Clow, their heirs and assigns forever as joint tenants and not as tenants   [...]  A. Would he have William McLure. Q. Would he have William McLure—? A. Come to the house.

  • 3,744.

    Lower Mainland Dairy Products Board v. Turner's Dairy Ltd - [1941] SCR 573 - 1941-10-06

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Constitutional law

    Lower Mainland Dairy Products Board, Milk Clearing House Limited, W. E. Williams and E. D. Barrow (Defendants) Appellants;   [...]  Williams, Barrow and Kilby were appointed members of that Board. The defendant the Lower Mainland Dairy Products Board passed certain Orders nos. 1 to 9.   [...]  Solicitors for the appellants: Williams, Manson & Rae. Solicitors for the respondents: Farris, Farris, McAlpine, Stultz, Bull & Farris.

  • 3,745.

    Koufis v. The King - [1941] SCR 481 - 1941-06-24

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Criminal law

    William Koufis Appellant; and His Majesty The King Respondent. 1941: April 30; 1941: May 1; 1941: June 24.   [...]  Taschereau J.—The appellant, William Koufis, has been found guilty of the crime of arson and sentenced to serve five years in Dorchester Penitentiary.   [...]  with each other and Jerome Gerrior, was inadmissible in the trial against William Koufis and was improperly-admitted in evidence.

  • 3,746.

    Hanes v. Kennedy - [1941] SCR 384 - 1941-06-02

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Torts

    Frank Hanes, Carl Hanes and William Hanes (Defendants) Appellants; and   [...]  The defendant William Hanes was the proprietor of the business carried on therein.   [...]  William Hanes failed in his duty to the infant plaintiff to exercise that care when his employee, Frank Hanes, was guilty of negligence, and William Hanes must also be held liable in damages.

  • 3,747.

    Lockhart v. Canadian Pacific Ry. Co. - [1941] SCR 278 - 1941-04-04

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Labour law

    I shall refer first to Williams v. Jones[39]. The plaintiff was the owner of a building which the defendant had the liberty of using with his servants as a carpentry shop.   [...]  The analogy between Williams v. Jones39 and the present case entirely fails in my view.   [...]  The difficulty of deciding in any particular case was clearly envisaged by the Chief Justice, as he referred also to two other decisions that are generally compared, Williams v. Jones[56], and Jefferson v. Derbyshire Farmers Ltd.[57].

  • 3,748.

    SCR | RCS [1940] - 1940-12-31

    Canada Supreme Court Reports

    Williams jumped up immediately and saw that the boat was down by the bow.   [...]  Solicitors for the respondent: Singer & Kert. 1940 WILLIAM L. CHRISTIE, I. HUNTLY *Mair. 7, 8.   [...]  The particular extract to which I desire to draw attention is set out in Merriman v. Williams (2).

  • 3,749.

    Ganong v. Belyea - [1941] SCR 125 - 1940-12-20

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Estates

    All these shares she assigned to the Eastern Trust Company on March 15th, 1918, by a trust indenture made between herself as party of the first part, the said Trust Company as party of the second part, and William F. Ganong, James E. Ganong, Walter K. Ganong and Arthur D. Ganong, four nephews of her late husband, as parties

  • 3,750.

    The King v. Singer - [1941] SCR 111 - 1940-12-20

    Supreme Court Judgments
    Criminal law

    William Singer Respondent. 1940: October 29; 1940: December 20. Present: Rinfret, Crocket, Davis, Hudson and Taschereau JJ.