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3,951.
Dixon v. Edmonton (City) - [1924] SCR 640 - 1924-11-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
William Dixon and Uxor (Plaintiffs) Appellants; and The City of Edmonton (Defendant) Respondent
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3,952.
Livesley v. Horst Co. - [1924] SCR 605 - 1924-11-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
The principle upon which such judgments are enforced by the English courts, as stated by Blackburn J. delivering the judgments of the Court of Queen's Bench in Godard v. Gray[19]; and in Schibsby v. Westenholz[20],— following the judgments of Parke B., in Russell v. Smyth[21], and Williams v. Jones[22]—is that the judgment
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3,953.
Kent v. The King - [1924] SCR 388 - 1924-06-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
William Kent Appellant; and His Majesty The King Respondent. 1924: May 14, 15; 1924: June 8.
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3,954.
The Bayer Co. v. American Druggists Syndicate - [1924] SCR 558 - 1924-06-08
Supreme Court JudgmentsIntellectual property
—A. Mr. William A. Sloan, he is just a director, Mr. B. W. Tobin, he is a director of the company, and he also acts as salesman for the Bayer Company Limited.
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3,955.
Nutson v. Hanrahan - [1925] SCR 662 - 1924-05-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
William A. Hanrahan and Others (Defendants) Respondents. 1924: March 10; 1924: May 13.
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3,956.
Reference In Re Validity of Manitoba Act, 13 Georges V, c.17 - [1924] SCR 317 - 1924-05-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
We must recognize the well known facts that crossing Manitoba is, for grain growers west thereof, almost an absolute necessity in order to get to their best market, whether we call it Liverpool or Fort William, and all important therefore that no impediment be thrown in their way.
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3,957.
Smith v. Nevins - [1925] SCR 619 - 1924-04-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
The first is accurately expressed in paragraph 605 of the Treaties on Evidence written by Mr. Hume Williams and Mr. Phipson in Lord Halsbury's collection in these words:
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3,958.
Warner Quinlan Asphalt Co. v. The King - [1924] SCR 236 - 1924-04-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
Gaston Williams v. The King[4]. Newcombe K.C. and J. Philip Bill for the respondent.
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3,959.
Board of Trustees of Roman Catholic Separate Schools v. City of Toronto - [1924] SCR 368 - 1924-03-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
Geary K.C. and Colquhoun for the respondent referred to City of Toronto v. Williams[5] Commissioners of Taxation v. St. Marks[6]. [...] I agree with the reasoning of the judgment of the Appellate Division, written at length by the late lamented Chief Justice Sir William R. Meredith, and need not repeat same here. [...] Solicitor for the respondent: William Johnston. [1] [1923] 54 Ont. L.R. 224.
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3,960.
The King v. Caledonian Insurance Co. - [1924] SCR 207 - 1924-03-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsStatutes
On the 29th November, 1911, William Burdis, the executor of the last will and testament of said Higginson, who had meantime obtained probate of said will, conveyed said lands to said vendees. [...] The question arises in these circumstances: Thomas Sheriff Higginson, who died in September, 1911, and whose will was proved in November of that year by one Burdis, who was named one of his executors, had, before his death, sold to William H. Stonehouse and Frederick G. Carlaw for the sum of $6,000 certain real estate, the
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SCR | RCS [1923] - 1923-12-31
Canada Supreme Court ReportsStevens K.C. for the respondent réferred to Fitzgerald v. Dressler (3), Williams v. Leper (4). [...] Tucker, in Goods of (1), and Williams on Exec-iltors, 11th ed. vol. 1, p. 340. [...] I agree with the opinion expressed by Sir William Mulock C.J. Ex. in In re Gibson v. City of Hamilton (1) .
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3,962.
The Security Export Co. v. Hetherington - [1923] SCR 539 - 1923-12-31
Supreme Court JudgmentsPrerogative writs
See the observations of Vaughan Williams L.J., in Reg. v. Nicholson[41].
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3,963.
County of Hastings v. Clinton - [1924] SCR 195 - 1923-12-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
Williams on Municipal Liability, pp. 190-194. In other words, a corporation is bound to erect barriers or railings where a dangerous place is in such close proximity to the travelled part of the highway as to make travelling upon it unsafe, whether by day or by night, in sunshine or storm.
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3,964.
Redican v. Nesbitt - [1924] SCR 135 - 1923-12-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
I may, in parting with this feature of the case and the exception thereby created, quote the following from Williams on Vendor and Purchaser, page 578:— [...] Laws of Eng., p. 742 and note (o); that the doctrine of the court of equity is that a contract for the sale of land will not be set aside for innocent misrepresentation “after it has been completed by conveyance and payment of the purchase money;” Williams on Vendor and Purchaser (3rd ed.) p. 796; and again
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3,965.
Shields v. The London and Western Trusts Co. - [1924] SCR 25 - 1923-12-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
The London and Western Trusts Company, Administrator of the Estate of William B. Shields Deceased (Defendant) Respondent. [...] This farm had belonged to the late James Shields, father of the appellant and of the late William B. Shields. [...] Jessie Shields, John J. Shields, James Shields, the estate of William B. Shields and Catherine Leitch, as tenants in common, subject to the dower interest of Annie Shields, widow of the intestate.
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Church v. Hill - [1923] SCR 642 - 1923-06-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
The result of decisions of this court in Jellett v. Wilkie[9], Williams v. Box[10], Smith v. National Trust Co.[11], Yockney v. Thomson[12], Grace v. Kuebler[13], and other cases, is that, notwithstanding such provisions as s. 41 of ch. 24 of the Alberta statutes of 1906, equitable doctrines and jurisdiction apply to lands
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3,967.
Reid v. Linnell - [1923] SCR 594 - 1923-06-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
In re Williams v. Groucott[20], Blackburn J. said: Looking at the general rule of law that a man is bound to use his property so as not to injure his neighbour, it seems to me that when a party alters things from their normal condition so as to render them dangerous to already acquired rights, the law casts on him the [...] It appears to me that the true principle has been well laid down in Groucott v. Williams, which is this, that where an alteration has been made in the normal state of things, calculated to cause injury to a neighbour, an obligation is cast upon the person who makes such an alteration to protect his neighbour from injury.
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McLeod v. City of Windsor - [1923] SCR 696 - 1923-06-14
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
As put by Sir William Mulock C.J. Ex., in In re Gibson and Hamilton[16]. [...] I agree with the opinion expressed by Sir William Mulock C.J. Ex. in In re Gibson v. City of Hamilton[18].
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3,969.
Crosby v. Prescott - [1923] SCR 446 - 1923-05-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
Williams on Executors (11 ed.) 264; Enohin v. Wiley[3]. [Page 447] Simple contract debts are assets where the debtor is found. [...] Tucker, in Goods of[23], and Williams on Executors, 11th ed. vol. 1, p. 340.
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3,970.
Hood v. Caldwell - [1923] SCR 488 - 1923-05-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
In In re Wragge[4] Vaughan Williams L.J. points out that in such circumstances the court will not limit itself to the question whether or not there is “no consideration whatever,” but with regard either to the whole of the consideration or to any part of it will give effect to its conclusion that the whole or the part is a
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3,971.
Mondor v. Willits - [1923] SCR 433 - 1923-05-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
William A. Willits and Others (Defendants) Respondents. 1923: February 12; 1923: May 1. [...] Solicitor for the respondents: William Manahan. [1] 32 Man. R. 383.
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3,972.
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Co. v. Earl - [1923] SCR 397 - 1923-04-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
Vaughan-Williams L.J., in his judgment in the Court of Appeal said, at p. 419:
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The Governor and Company of Gentlemen Adventurers of England v. Vaillancourt - [1923] SCR 414 - 1923-04-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
case, that is to say the same in all its essential elements, was decided in the opposite sense in Williams v. Jones[10] But in Williams v. Jones 10Blackburn J., dissented on the ground that in the circumstances the act of smoking by the employee while engaged in the duties of his employment, the circumstances being such
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SCR | RCS (1923) vol 64 - 1923-01-01
Canada Supreme Court ReportsThere is no privity between the Canada Law Book Company, Limited, and William Green & Sons. [...] Solicitor for the appellants: William A. Skean. Solicitor for the respondents: J. H. G. Wallace. [...] VOL. LXIV. SUPREME COURT OF CANADA. 367 WILLIAM J. MAJOR (PLAINTIFF) ..
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Canadian Pacific Ry. Co. v. Department of Lands and Forests of Ontario - [1923] SCR 155 - 1922-12-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
And upon its appearing that the townships of Eton and Aubrey are situated upwards of 200 miles westerly of Fort William; [...] the townships of Eton and Aubrey are situated upwards of 200 miles westerly of Fort William. [...] And the grant of this portion of the railway, to wit the portion between Fort William and Manitoba, made by the Dominion to the appellant on the 29th March, 1904, under the