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1,226.
Lahay v. Brown - [1958] SCR 240 - 1958-04-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsEvidence
May Adelene Brown, Executrix of the Estate of William Eli Brown and the said May Adelene Brown (Defendant) Respondent. [...] The plaintiff was for many years housekeeper and nurse to Dr. William Eli Brown. [...] one-third of the residue of the estate of the late William Eli Brown does not discharge in whole or in part the debt of $10,950 for which judgment was given in her favour.
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1,227.
Beatty and Mackie v. Kozak - [1958] SCR 177 - 1958-01-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsCivil law
Criminal law
But as Williams J. in Cann v. Clipperton11 said: It would be wild work if a party might give himself protection by merely saying that he believed himself acting in pursuance of a statute. ... [...] In Norris v. Smith18, Williams J, says : The question is, not whether the defendant and the trustees were strictly justified by the provisions of the statute, but whether there was a semblance of acting under it.
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1,228.
The Attorney General of Canada v. The Canadian Pacific Railway Company and Canadian National Railways - [1958] SCR 285 - 1958-01-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Transportation
John A. MacAulay, Q.C, A. A. Moffat, Q.C., and R. K. Williams, for Imperial Oil Limited, intervenant. [...] It is now suggested because the power conferred by the Canadian Act, which is not and could not be wider in its terms than that of William IV., applicable to the Judicial Committee, has resulted in asking questions affecting the provinces, or alleged to do so.
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1,229.
La Ville de Jacques-Cartier v. Lamarre - [1958] SCR 108 - 1957-12-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsStatutes
Williams et al. v. Irvine (1893), 22 S.C.R. 108; Hyde v. Lindsay (1898), 29 S.C.R. 99, applied. [...] Cette Cour en a ainsi décidé dans Williams et al. v. Irvine3; Hyde v. Lindsay4.
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1,230.
Hellens v. Densmore - [1957] SCR 768 - 1957-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsFamily law
Andrew William Densmore Respondent; and The Attorney General Of British Columbia Intervenant; [...] On January 19, 1949, the appellant married the respondent, Andrew William Densmore, in Alberta, where he was domiciled; whether the appellant was also domiciled there is immaterial.
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1,231.
Reese v. The Queen - [1957] SCR 794 - 1957-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
While this finding is fatal to the claims of all of the appellants in so far as they are based upon the original agreements made with the Board, in my opinion a further complete answer to the claims other than those of William Kerr and of the estate of Daniel Beaton is that, some years prior to the institution of the
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1,232.
Rosen v. Anglin - [1957] SCR 755 - 1957-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsPriorities and hypothecs
that the question to be tried shall be whether at the time of the seizure by the said bailiff William Tice the plaintiffs were entitled to seize, the goods and chattels seized in priority to the defendant, and whether the said mortgages to the plaintiffs were in priority to the mortgage of the defendant on the goods and
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1,233.
Miller v. Decker - [1957] SCR 624 - 1957-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
(Williams, Joint Torts and Contributory Negligence, pp. 333-5; Winfield on Tort, 6th ed., pp. 47, 520-1; Pollock on Torts, 15th ed., pp.125-7; National Coal Board v. England, [1954] 1 All E.R. 546 at pp. 552, 554-7, noted in (1954), 17 Mod. L. Rev. 365; 70 L.Q. R. 298-9; cf.
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1,234.
Pelletier v. Shykofsky - [1957] SCR 635 - 1957-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsCourts
Labour law
Hazen Hansard, Q.C., and William Grant, for the plaintiff, respondent.
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1,235.
Kerslake v. Gray - [1957] SCR 516 - 1957-06-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
Insurance
The contract between the insured William Roddick and the insurer “the Supreme Tent of the Knights of the Maccabees of the World” contained the following provisions, set out at pp. 538‑9 of the report: [...] The certificate issued to William Roddick named his mother as beneficiary; she predeceased him and the only persons falling within the class set out in s. 10 who survived him were his two sisters. [...] The sisters did not bring an action; a case was stated for the opinion of the Court as to whether they or the administrator of William Roddick were entitled to receive the proceeds of the policy.
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1,236.
Orchard v. Tunney - [1957] SCR 436 - 1957-05-13
Supreme Court JudgmentsLabour law
APPEAL from the judgment of the Court of Appeal for Manitoba 1 affirming the judgment of Williams C.J.Q.B. 2. [...] To the same effect was Marzetti v. Williams et al. 11. The steps so taken by the board and the subsequent action were found by the Courts below to have been wilful and without justification or excuse.
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1,237.
Berkheiser v. Berkheiser and Glaister - [1957] SCR 387 - 1957-04-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsMines and minerals
In Martyn v. Williams 6, a licence was granted to the defendant "to dig, work, and search for china clay, and to raise, get, and dispose of the same ... for the term of 21 years". [...] Martyn v. Williams [supra] decides that they do. To the like effect was the decision in Lord Hastings v. North Eastern Railway Company 8, where a covenant to pay for the privilege of a way-leave on which to make and use a railway, based on a rate on the coal carried to a certain port, was held to run with the reversion. [...] In Martyn v. Williams 15, a profit à prendre in certain minerals had been granted to the defendant for a term of years by the owner in fee, who subsequently conveyed all his estate to the plaintiff.
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1,238.
Canadian Pacific Railway Company v. The Town of Estevan - [1957] SCR 365 - 1957-04-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsAction
Transportation
The coal has since been used in stationary boiler-plants in roundhouses on the main line from Fort William to Swift Current to produce steam power for its shops and heat for its railway cars and station buildings. [...] This coal is hauled over the Portal and Estevan subdivisions for use in stationary boiler-plants in roundhouses at Fort William, Ignace, Kenora, Winnipeg, Brandon, Broadview, Regina, Moose Jaw and Swift Current, all situate on the main line of the Company.
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1,239.
Mizinski v. Robillard and McLaughlin - [1957] SCR 351 - 1957-04-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William Mizinski (Plaintiff) Appellant; and Wilbert Robillard and Jack McLaughlin (Defendants) Respondents.
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1,240.
The Queen v. Carey - [1957] SCR 266 - 1957-02-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William A. Schultz, Q.C., for the appellant. Norman D. Mullins, for the respondent. [...] Solicitor for the appellant: William A. Schultz, Vancouver. Solicitor for the respondent: Norman D. Mullins, Vancouver.
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1,241.
Van Alstyne v. Ruck et al. - [1957] SCR 142 - 1957-01-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
In and prior to the year 1943 one William Turcotte was the owner of the west half of lot 32 in concession 2 of the township of Pittsburgh in the county of Frontenac.
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1,242.
Kirkland v. The Queen - [1957] SCR 3 - 1956-12-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
The defence called William Dineen, a nephew of the appellant, who testified that the latter had helped the mother of the witness in the operation of the booth at Belle Ewart; that the appellant had tried to get employment at the Canadian National Exhibition in August 1952 but could not do so as he was not a union member;
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1,243.
McEllistrum v. Etches - [1956] SCR 787 - 1956-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
Torts
The present view of the law is summarized by Glanville L. Williams in his work on Joint Torts and Contributory Negligence, 1951, s. 89, p. 355.
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1,244.
Prudential Trust Company Ltd. v. Cugnet - [1956] SCR 914 - 1956-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
and referred to what had been said by Lord Chancellor Cottenham in William M'Ewan and Sons v. James and Archibald Smith et al. 20. [...] The general principle was stated as follows by Lord Halsbury sitting in the Court of Appeal in Henderson & Co. v. Williams 26.:— [...] As it was put by Sir William Anson 33 in an article on Carlisle v. Bragg:—
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1,245.
Re Hardy Official Guardian v. Toronto General Trusts Corporation et al - [1956] SCR 906 - 1956-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsCommercial law
Trust
Provided further, and notwithstanding anything hereinbefore contained, the Settlor hereby declares that shares of Capital Stock in the G.T. Fulford Company, Limited, and Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Limited, Fulford Hanson Company or of any subsidiary Company of the G.T. Fulford Company Limited or in any business way
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1,246.
Rural Municipality of Monet v. Campbell - [1956] SCR 763 - 1956-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
James Francis Williams And Reginald Johnston (Plaintiffs) Respondents. [...] The respondent Campbell farms the north half of section 35, the respondent McCallum the south half of section 34 and the respondents Williams and Johnston the north half of section 27, all in the said township.
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1,247.
Tombill Gold Mines Ltd. v. Hamilton et al. - [1956] SCR 858 - 1956-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Robert M.P. Hamilton, Philip D.P. Hamilton, William S. Hargraft, The General Engineering Company Limited and Geco Mines Limited (No Personal Liability) (Defendants) Respondents.
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1,248.
Treasurer of Ontario v. Doyle et al. - [1956] SCR 780 - 1956-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
Mildred Hatch Doyle, Carr Hatch, Nancy Hatch, Henry Clifford Hatch, Joan Hatch, William Douglas Hatch and Irene Frances Hatch, and The Official Guardian, on behalf of Infants and any Unborn Grand-Children (Appellants) Respondents.
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1,249.
Bradley v. The Queen - [1956] SCR 723 - 1956-06-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Cartwright J. (dissenting):—On November 2, 1955, the appellant was convicted before Williams C.J.Q.B. and a jury of having, on January 6, 1955, murdered August Flat-foot.
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1,250.
Montreal Trust Co. v. Minister of National Revenue - [1956] SCR 702 - 1956-06-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
income) or so much thereof as shall not have been paid to my wife during her lifetime shall be divided equally between my children Mary Loghrin Calder and William Campbell Bathgate, or the same shall go wholly to one if only one of such children shall survive me, subject to the provision that if either of my said