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Brady v. Stewart - (1887) 15 SCR 82 - 1887-06-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsThe material facts of the case are as follows Hugh Brady, the appellant, purchased from George Dalrymple, Samuel McFee, Alexander Coultry and William Haddlesley all members of the St. Gabriel Mutual Building Society, their hooks or shares in the latter. [...] As William Haddlesley says:— I am one of the former shareholders of the St. Gabriel Mutual Building Society.
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McLean v. Wilkins - (1887) 14 SCR 22 - 1887-06-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
Moss Q.C. for the respondents referred to Williams on Executors[9]. The judgment of the court was delivered by:— [...] by the conveyance by Mrs. Mackay to Hime of other property valued at that amount, and accordingly on the 6th day of May, 1879, Quinn, by the direction of Hime, conveyed the property to one William Hope, who, it is admitted, was a trustee for the purchaser, Mrs. Mackay; and Hope afterwards, on the 8th of January, 1880,
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SCR | RCS (1887) vol 13 - 1887-06-20
Canada Supreme Court Reports270 SUPREME COURT OF CANADA. [VOL. XIII. 1886 WILLIAM LOGAN (PLAIiNTIFF)... [...] RESPONDENTS. WILLIAM BADENACH, WALTER H. BLIGHT, ROBERT DODDS AND A. G. ALLISON (DEFENDANTS)...... [...] And see Hepworth Dixon's life of William Penn (2) ; Memoirs of the Hist.
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St. Catharines Milling and Lumber Co. v. R. - (1887) 13 SCR 577 - 1887-06-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsAboriginal law
William Penn was not the first to acquire Indian lands by purchase. He came to America in 1682 and made his treaty in 1683. [...] After relating the various circumstances connected with the celebrated treaty made between William Penn and the Indians in 1682, the author goes on to say:— [...] And see Hepworth Dixon’s life of William Penn[9]; Memoirs of the Hist.
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The Magog Textile & Print Co. v. Price - (1887) 14 SCR 664 - 1887-06-20
Supreme Court JudgmentsSecurities
In September, 1882, the respondent at the solicitation of one William Hobbs, signed a subscription list, headed as follows:— [...] FOURNIER. J.—En septembre 1881 li intimé sigma à la réquisition de William Hobbs, une liste de souscription ainsi conçue:-—
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Crewe-Read v. The Municipality of Cape Breton - (1887) 14 SCR 8 - 1887-05-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsArmed Forces
Burbidge Q.C. in reply, as to survivorship of the action cited Lewin on Trusts[5]; Williams on Executors[6]; Imperial Statutes[7]; Webb v. Taylor[8]; Barnewall v. Sutherland[9]; Atkins v. Gardner[10]; Howley v. Knight[11]; The King v. Chamberlayne[12]. [...] I cannot distinguish this case, in principle, from Bafield v. Collard[13], which is thus stated in 1 Williams on Executors[14]:—
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Jones v. Dorland - (1887) 14 SCR 39 - 1887-05-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
Gilbert Jones, William Valentine, John Garratt, Adam Henry Garratt, John Stanley White, Walter S. Varney, Levi V. Bowerman, William Branscombe, Willard Garratt, Levi Varney, Walter Leavens, Nathaniel Sweetman, A.M. Outwaters, Ralph P. Jones, and Amos Bowerman (Defendants) Appellants; [...] S.H. Btake Q.C. and Clarke for the respondents referred to Williams v. Bishop of Salisbury[5]; Attorney General v. Gould[6]; White lick Quar.
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Rattray v. Larue - (1887) 15 SCR 102 - 1887-05-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsAgency
APPEAL from the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench for Lower Canada (Appeal side) ([2]) reversing the judgment of the Superior Court which maintained a demurrer to an intervention filed by the respondent as tutor ad hoc to minor children in a suit pending between William Herring, in his quality of curator to the [...] LaRue, en qualité de tuteur ad hoc, dans une action intentée par William Herring en sa qualité de curateur à l'interdiction pour cause de prodigalité, de Dame Isabelle Abbott Young, épouse de Beverly R. Eppes, demandant la destitution de l'appelant Rattray de sa position de fidéicommissaire (trustee) des propriétés [...] ler vol. des L. R. Québec ([11]) et décidée par la cour de Révision, composée de Sir William 0.
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Fairbanks v. Barlow - (1887) 14 SCR 217 - 1887-03-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
The respondents are the South Eastern Railway Company, William Farwell, Wm. C. Van Home, and Warmen R. Blodgett in their quality as trustees of the bondholders of the South Eastern Railway who were defendants with Barlow, and the intervenant, James O'Halloran, a judgment creditor of Barlow.
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Hovey v. Whiting - (1887) 14 SCR 515 - 1887-03-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsCommercial law
Solicitor for appellants: William M. Hall. Solicitor for respondents: Hugh McKenzie Wilson.
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Merchants' Despatch Transportation Co. v. Hately - (1887) 14 SCR 572 - 1887-03-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
The bills of lading were signed by “William Brown, agent severally but not jointly,” and endorsed by Hately and the consignees.
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Sherren v. Pearson - (1887) 14 SCR 581 - 1887-03-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
Commencing at a square stake fixed in the north-east bank of the north-west branch of Westmoreland or Crapaud River, the same being the north-western boundary of William Hodson's farm, and from thence running by a line north sixty degrees east until it strikes the north-east branch of said Westmoreland river and following
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Shoolbred v. Union Fire Ins. Co. - (1887) 14 SCR 624 - 1887-03-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsCommercial law
William Shoolbred (Defendant) Appellant; and The Union Fire Insurance Co. et al. [...] APPEAL from a decision of the Court of Appeal for Ontario[2] affirming the judgment of the Chancery Division[3], whereby the petition of William Shoolbred was dismissed. [...] Order and adjudge that William Badenach of the city of Toronto, Esquire, accountant, the receiver heretofore appointed in the said case of Clarke v. The Union Fire Insurance Company be and he is hereby appointed interim liquidator of the estate and effects of the said company.
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Wheeler v. Black - (1887) 14 SCR 242 - 1887-03-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
WILLIAM W.WHEELER, et al Appellant And JOHN BLACK et al., Respondent.
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4,615.
The Pictou Bank v. Harvey - (1887) 14 SCR 617 - 1887-02-17
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
"All the personal property assigned by the foregoing deed poll or bill of sale and schedule, has been this day delivered into the actual possession of William B. O. Meynell, as agent for the Pictou bank, and it is now in his possession in the tannery and on lands and premises
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The Sovereign Fire Ins. Co. v. Moir - (1887) 14 SCR 612 - 1887-02-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
William C. Moir, James W. Moir and James R. Graham (Plaintiffs) Respondents [...] This is an action on a policy of insurance bearing date 19th November, 1880, issued by defendant company to William C. Moir and James W. Moir, insuring "the machinery in spool factory, situate at Bedford Basin," in the sum of $3,000.
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SCR | RCS (1887) vol 12 - 1887-01-01
Canada Supreme Court ReportsAND JOHN DOULL, WILLIAM MILLER, ) FRANCIS H. DOULL, WILLIAM , M. DOULL, AND VINCENZO J. ' RESPONDENTS. GIBSON (PLAINTIFFs). [...] WILLIAM L. MACKENZIE AND 1884 ARTHUR B. LEE (PLAINTIFFS)... APPELLANTS; *Dec. 2. [...] SPRAGUE, SAMUEL TROTT *J AND WILLIAM J. MITCHELL RESPONDENTS. (DEFENDANTS)... ...
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McQueen v. The Queen - (1886) 16 SCR 1 - 1886-12-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsStatutes
the 31st January, 1832, Alexander McQueen released to William McQueen all his interest in the said lands, and by deed of Feb. 6th, 1832 the said William McQueen conveyed the whole of the lands originally granted to Grace McQueen to said Lt.-Colonel By in fee for £1,200. [...] Now, whether the money so paid to William McQueen was or was not the money of His then Majesty is a [...] matter with which neither William McQueen nor any person claiming under him can have anything to do.
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Beatty v. Neelon - (1886) 13 SCR 1 - 1886-11-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsCommercial law
The service to be rendered under this last contract was that a steamer should leave Sarnia twice a week, namely, on Tuesdays and Fridays, calling at Southampton and Fort William only en route to Duluth.
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Confederation Life Ass. Of Canada v. O'Donnell - (1886) 13 SCR 218 - 1886-11-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsInsurance
At the former trial of this action when Allison was examined as a witness, there was no admissible evidence of the payment of the premium beyond the presumption arising from the policy having been in the possession of William O'Donnel at the time of his death and for some time before. [...] It does not come within the principles upon which entries of deceased persons are considered evidence as being against interest, for although as between his father and William O'Donnell himself it was an admission against the interest of the latter, yet as regards the present defendants it was in his own interest and [...] and was the only cash book kept between the two of them, and of a statement made by the plaintiff in his evidence that although Allison after the decease of William A. O'Donnell, upon the occasion of being applied to by the plaintiff for payment of the policy, said that he thought the premium never had been paid, yet that
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DuMoulin v. Langtry - (1886) 13 SCR 258 - 1886-11-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
Robinson, His then Majesty's Attorney General for the said Province, and one William Allan, and to their heirs and assigns, upon trust to hold the same for the sole use and benefit of the resident clergyman of the town of York and his successors appointed or to be appointed rectors of the Episcopal Church therein to [...] Another portion of the land in question, together with a number of other parcels of land, was granted by the Crown by letters patent bearing date the 26th day of April, 1879, unto and to the use of the Honorable William Dummer Powell, then Chief Justice of the Province of Upper Canada, James Baby and the Reverend John [...] bearing date the 2nd day of December, 1824, required the grantees in the said letters patent named to convey to D'Arcy Boulton, John Beverley Robinson and William Allan for the use of the church in the town of York and of the clergyman incumbent thereof, for the time being, the parcels of land therein described (being
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In Re Sproule - (1886) 12 SCR 140 - 1886-09-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsPrerogative writs
Witness, the Honorable Sir William Johnstone Ritchie, Knight, Chief Justice of our said Supreme Court of Canada, this twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six. [...] The strong language used by Williams, J. in Regina v. Newton [71] seems well warranted, and without attempting any minute examination of the authorities, it is sufficient to say that the case of Regina v. Newton is entirely in accordance with other well considered cases particularly with those of Regina v. Suddis[72] ; ex
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Jones v. Fraser - (1886) 13 SCR 342 - 1886-06-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
WILLIAM FRASER, (Plaintiff contesting opposition in the Superior Court)
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Wadsworth v. McCord - (1886) 12 SCR 466 - 1886-06-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
Now up to 1794 it is perfectly clear that the domicile was Scotch, and it appears to be agreed on all hands that the rules which Sir William Grant, then master of the rolls, extracted, as he said, from various decisions, the Annandale case, Bruce v. Bruce, and other cases, to all of which your lordships have been referred, [...] The facts are undisputed; the witnesses examined were the relatives Jane Wadsworth, sister of James Wadsworth, William Wadsworth, his brother, and Susan McMullen, daughter of his first wife by her husband McMullen and the intervenor in this case and others. [...] William Wadsworth:— If I remember right my brother told me that it was during ihe winter previous to my arrival in the country that Mr. Wadsworth
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West v. Parkdale - (1886) 12 SCR 250 - 1886-06-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
Robert Carroll and William Henry Dunspaugh (Plaintiffs) Appellants; and [...] Then we find that on the 26th November, 1883, a contract for construction of the subway in the shape of an indenture between Arthur William Godson, of the city of Toronto, contractor, of the first part, and the corporation of the village of Parkdale of the second part, was laid before the council of the municipality of the