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Trottier v. Rajotte - [1940] SCR 203 - 1939-12-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsFamily law
There was an appeal to the Privy Council which was dismissed[3]; and the. judgment of the Board delivered by Sir Barnes Peacock implies that the rules for determination of international domicile do not differ from the generally recognized rules which are fully stated and illustrated in the judgment of Sir William Ritchie in
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The King v. Hochelaga Shipping & Towing Co. Ltd. - [1940] SCR 153 - 1939-12-09
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
The learned judge found that the work, presenting, as Captain Williams says, the appearance of a new wharf, but with the sunken crib work projecting from it without a sign of its presence, constituted a trap. [...] The mate remarked that they had struck something and Williams sent him down to the chief engineer to see if there were any leaks or if anything was wrong below. [...] Williams jumped up immediately and saw that the boat was down by the bow.
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Windsor Board of Education v. Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. et al. - [1939] SCR 412 - 1939-10-30
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
The article on Evidence in the Hailsham edition of Halsbury’s Laws of England (Vol. XIII) which was under the editorship of Lord Roche, has left untouched the carefully guarded statement in the article on Evidence, in the first edition, which was under the joint editorship of Mr. Hume-Williams and Mr. Phipson.
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Kinkel et al. v. Hyman - [1939] SCR 364 - 1939-10-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsAppeal
Torts
As Vaughan Williams, L.J., points out, the average chance of each competitor was one in four. [...] Vaughan Williams, L.J., in the course of his reported reasons, said:
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Snyder v. Minister of National Revenue - [1939] SCR 384 - 1939-06-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
William Anderson ............. Calgary Power Co., Calgary .... 1⁄2 Unit [...] William S. Applegate ..................................................... 800 shares
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1,431.
Robinson v. The Royal Trust Co. - [1939] SCR 75 - 1938-12-12
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
In Barford v. Street[5], Sir William Grant had to consider a will by which the residue of the testator's personal estate and all his real estate were given and devised to a trustee to pay the rents, issues, interests, dividends, and produce, to Mary Barford during the term of her natural life, and from and immediately after [...] But the reasons for the judgment of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, delivered by Sir William Meredith[14], are of interest as indicating the view of the Chief Justice of Ontario that, notwithstanding the intention of the testator that beneficiaries should take a life 2state, that estate, when coupled with a general power [...] Sir William Meredith disagreed with this view because of the words "they my said daughters in the meantime to have all the rents and profits therefrom" and held that the daughters took a life interest with a general power of appointment.
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1,432.
Vanity Fair Silk Mills v. Commissioner of Patents - [1939] SCR 245 - 1938-12-05
Supreme Court JudgmentsIntellectual property
Solicitor for the appellant: William A. MacRae. Solicitor for the respondent: William J. P. O’Meara.
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The King v. Barbour - [1938] SCR 465 - 1938-11-15
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
In Reg. v. Mobbs[20], it is reported in (1853) 6 Cox C.C. 223 and in 17 J.P. 713, that Baron Cresswell and Williams J., in a case where evidence was offered of a prior assault, felt so uncertain about the matter that they decided not to admit the evidence. [...] At the famous trial of William Palmer, 1856[23], one question was as to whether the accused administered the poison. [...] [23] Reporter’s note.—See in series of “Notable British Trials,” the “Trial of William Palmer” (Knott and Watson) at pp. 297, 299.
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Manchuk v. The King - [1938] SCR 341 - 1938-06-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William Manchuk (Plaintiff) Appellant; and His Majesty The King (Defendant) Respondent. [...] THE CHIEF JUSTICE.—On the 8th of June, 1936, the appellant William Manchuk killed, first, John Seabright, and, shortly afterwards, his wife, Amy Seabright.
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1,435.
Reference Re Authority to Perform Functions Vested by Adoption Act, The Children of Unmarried Parents Act, The Deserted Wives' and Children's Maintenance Act of Ontario - [1938] SCR 398 - 1938-06-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
Solicitor for the Attorney-General of Ontario: William B. Common. Attorney-General of Manitoba: W. J. Major.
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Wilson v. The King - [1938] SCR 317 - 1938-06-23
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
But Sir William Grant, the Master of the Rolls, at p. 481 said this:—
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1,437.
Davis v. Auld et al. - [1938] SCR 304 - 1938-04-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
Williams on Executors, page 272:— With respect to an administrator, the general rule is, that a party entitled to administration can do nothing as administrator before letters of administration are granted to him; inasmuch as he derives his authority entirely from the appointment of the Court. [...] In Williams on Executors, at page 275, it is stated: — Though a next of kin may have intermeddled with the effects, and made himself liable as executor de son tort, he cannot be compelled by the Court to take upon himself the office of administrator.
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Governor and Company of Adventurers of England Trading into Hudson's Bay v. Wyrzykowski - [1938] SCR 278 - 1938-04-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
E. K. Williams K.C. for the respondent. [Page 282] The Chief Justice.—I concur in the conclusion as well as in the reasoning of my brother Hudson as well as those of my brother Davis, but I desire to add one or two observations upon the points raised as to the admissibility of the permits and of the report of the inspector
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1,439.
Thomson v. Lambert - [1938] SCR 253 - 1938-03-25
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
(Williams v. Hunt, [1905] 1 K.B. 512, at 514, Macdougall v. Knight, 25 Q.B.D. 1, at 10, and others cases, cited). [...] to the Imperial News Company Limited of Winnipeg and to William James Sinnott, the manager of that company, and to various employees of that company including one Richard Halliley. [...] Collins, M.R. (with whom Stirling, L.J., concurred) in Williams v. Hunt[1], said:—
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1,440.
In re Bankruptcy of Stobie, Forlong & Company - [1938] SCR 193 - 1938-03-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsBankruptcy and insolvency
Vaughan Williams, L.J., was of opinion that the onus of showing that the proof was sworn by inadvertence had not been satisfied. [...] As has already been mentioned, the title-deeds were in the hands of a third party and it is quite evident, as Vaughan Williams, L.J., points out in supplemental reasons, at page 238, “that an order giving leave to amend or withdraw the proof would under the circumstances be illusory.”
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Reference Re Alberta Statutes - The Bank Taxation Act; The Credit of Alberta Regulation Act; and the Accurate News and Information Act - [1938] SCR 100 - 1938-03-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsConstitutional law
6. That in a submission set forth in a letter of October 12th, 1937, to the Right Honourable the Prime Minister of Canada, the Honourable William Aberhart, Premier of the Government of the province of Alberta, stated, with reference to said Bill No. 8: " Should there be any doubt as to the constitutional validity of the
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1,442.
The King v. Manchuk - [1938] SCR 18 - 1937-12-07
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
William Manchuk (Defendant) Respondent. 1937: November 1; 1937: December 7.
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1,443.
Attorney General of British Columbia v. Royal Bank of Canada - [1937] SCR 459 - 1937-06-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsProperty law
by petition dated the 28th day of March, 1935, and upon hearing the solicitor for the applicants, and upon reading the affidavits of the said Bernard Sigismund Heisterman and of William Henry Langley, respectively, both filed herein, and it appearing that the Registrar of Companies does not oppose such application:
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1,444.
Canning v. The King - [1937] SCR 421 - 1937-06-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Solicitor for the appellant: William J. Murdock. Solicitor for the respondent: Gordon S. Wismer.
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1,445.
McPhee v. Box - [1937] SCR 385 - 1937-04-21
Supreme Court JudgmentsMines and minerals
William S. MacPhee and Elmore H. Pointer (Plaintiffs) Appellants; and
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1,446.
Cameron v. Haszard / In re Roberson - [1937] SCR 354 - 1937-03-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
E. K. Williams K.C. and W. E. Bentley K.C. for the respondents. The judgment of the court was delivered by [...] The law, their Lordships said, had been correctly stated by Sir William Page Wood, V.C., in In re Bennett's Trust ([8]) as follows: [...] Mr. Williams did not refer us to any authority in support of this contention and it appears to us to be such an artificial construction of the settled rule as not to justify our acquiescence in it.
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Compagnie d'Assurance sur la vie "La Sauvegarde" v. Ayers - [1938] SCR 164 - 1937-03-18
Supreme Court JudgmentsSale
William Harry Ayers (Defendant) Respondent. 1937: October 21; 1937: March 18.
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McMillan v. Brownlee - [1937] SCR 318 - 1937-03-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
Not only was the question not raised in that case, but the case was prior to the legislation enacted in Upper Canada in 1837, being 7 William IV, chap. 8, "An Act to make the remedy in cases of seduction more effectual, and to render the fathers of illegitimate children liable for their support," which statute without
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1,449.
Langdon v. Holtyrex Gold Mines Ltd. - [1937] SCR 334 - 1937-02-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
William Osgoode Langdon (Defendant) Appellant; and Holtyrex Gold Mines Limited (Plaintiff) Respondent;
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1,450.
Canadian National Steamships v. Bayliss - [1937] SCR 261 - 1937-02-02
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
William Bayliss (Plaintiff) Respondent. 1936: November 4; 1937: February 2.