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Drew v. The Queen - [1961] SCR 614 - 1961-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsExpropriation
F. A. Brewin, Q.C., and Ian G. Scott, for the appellant. D. S. Maxwell and P. M. Troop, for the respondent.
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Kruger v. Booker - [1961] SCR 231 - 1961-01-24
Supreme Court JudgmentsFamily law
There is one other child of the parties John Scott Booker born on October 21, 1945, but his custody is not in question in this appeal; he is in the custody of the respondent and the appellant has rights of access to him. [...] infant John Scott Booker, and direct judgment to be entered awarding, until further order, the sole custody and control of the infants Susan Claire Booker, born October 27, 1951, and Jennifer Lynn Booker, born November 3, 1953, to the appellant Vera Leona Kruger subject to the right of the respondent Ernest William Booker
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Bogue Electric of Canada Limited v. Crothers Manufacturing Limited - [1961] SCR 108 - 1960-12-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
P.B.C. Pepper, Q.C., Miss Janet Scott and W. Herridge, for the defendant, respondent.
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Labour Relations Board of New Brunswick v. Eastern Bakeries Limited et al. - [1961] SCR 72 - 1960-12-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsLabour law
The decision of this Court in Attorney General for Ontario v. Scott2 deals with an entirely different matter.
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Marshall v. The Queen - [1961] SCR 123 - 1960-12-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsEvidence
Walker v. R., [1939] S.C.R. 214; R. v. Scott, (1856), Dears & B. 47; R. v. Coote, (1873), L.R. 4 P.C. 599, referred to. [...] It has long been settled that statements made under compulsion of a statute are not by reason of that fact alone rendered inadmissible in criminal proceedings against the person making them; it is sufficient on this point to refer to Walker v. The King[3]; Regina v. Scott[4]; and Regina v. Coote[5].
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Metalliflex Limited v. Rodi & Wienenberger Aktiengesellschaft - [1961] SCR 117 - 1960-12-19
Supreme Court JudgmentsIntellectual property
The learned trial judge dismissed the plaintiff's action with costs, cancelled and annulled the interlocutory injunction previously granted by Associate Chief Justice W.B. Scott.
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Crighton v. Roman / Roman v. Toronto General Trusts Corp. et al. - [1960] SCR 858 - 1960-10-04
Supreme Court JudgmentsTrust
Williams v. Scott, [1900] A.C. 499, Brickenden v. London Loan and Savings Co., [1934] 3 D.L.R. 465, referred to. [...] The following passage in the judgment of the Judicial Committee in Williams v. Scott[1], appears to me to be applicable to the facts of the case at bar:
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. Therien - [1960] SCR 265 - 1960-01-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsLabour law
JJ.A. Both of these learned judges expressed the view that such a union was by virtue of these statutes of the province an entity distinct from its members or, as expressed by Robertson J.A., adopting what had been said by Scott L.J. in National Union of General and Municipal Workers v. Gillian[9], a perona juridica.
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The Queen v. Bamsey - [1960] SCR 294 - 1960-01-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsCriminal law
RITCHIE J.:—The respondent herein, having pleaded guilty, was convicted by G. W. Scott, Esq., Deputy Police Magistrate in and for the City of Vancouver, on the charge that he unlawfully drove his motor vehicle on a highway
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Cloaks Ltd. v. Cooperberg and Davis - [1959] SCR 785 - 1959-10-06
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
Under art. 1054 the law is well settled that a person who has a thing under his care may be relieved of responsibility for damages caused by it by showing that he was unable by reasonable means to prevent the damage: Quebec Railway Light, Heat and Power Co. Limited v. Vandry3; City of Montreal v. Watt and Scott Limited4. [...] le même tribunal dans la cause de La Ville de Montréal v. Watt and Scott Limited7. [...] He can exculpate himself by proving that he was unable by reasonable means to prevent the damage complained of—Quebec Railway, Light, Heat and Power Co. Ltd. v. Vandry8 and Watt and Scott v. The City of Montreal9.
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Patchett & Sons Ltd. v. Pacific Great Eastern Railway Co. - [1959] SCR 271 - 1959-01-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
From there he had gone to Red Rock where he found a situation similar to that at Stoner outside the premises of the Scott Sash and Door Company.
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Roncarelli v. Duplessis - [1959] SCR 121 - 1959-01-27
Supreme Court JudgmentsState
F. R. Scott and A. L. Stein, for the plaintiff, appellant. L. E. Beaulieu, Q.C., and L. Tremblay, Q.C., for the defendant, respondent. [...] Mr. Scott argued further that even if the revocation were within the scope of discretion and not a breach of duty, the intervention of the respondent in so using the Commission was equally a fault.
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The Brotherhoods of Railway Employees et al. v. The New York Central Railroad Company and the Canadian Pacific Railway Company and Canadian National Railway Company - [1958] SCR 519 - 1958-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsTransportation
C. F. H. Carson, Q.C., and C. Scott, Q.C., for the respondent. C. F. H. Carson, Q.C., and J. G. W. MacDougall, for Canadian National Railway Company, intervenant. [...] Solicitors for the respondent : Aylen, Scott & Aylen, Ottawa. Solicitor for Canadian National Railway Company, intervenant; J. W. G. MacDougall, Montreal.
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Toronto General Trusts Corporation v. The Minister of National Revenue - [1958] SCR 499 - 1958-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsEstates
In re Scott, Deceased, [1901] 1 K.B. 228, disapproved and distinguished. [...] In re Scott, Deceased6, where a double estate duty was held to be payable, is another extreme example. [...] Serious doubts have been expressed whether In re Scott was correctly decided.
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Carriss v. Buxton - [1958] SCR 441 - 1958-06-03
Supreme Court JudgmentsMunicipal law
Torts
Scott v. The Fernie Lumber Company, Limited (1904), 11 B.C.R. 91 at 96; David Spencer Limited v. Field, [1939] S.C.R. 36 at 42, applied. [...] The rule in Scott v. The Fernie Lumber Company, Limited[23], as stated by Duff J. (as he then was) applies. [...] In saying this I do not question the decision in Scott v. The Fernie Lumber Company, Limited[30], or "the rule long established, which holds a litigant to a position deliberately assumed by his counsel at the trial", referred to by Davis J. in David Spencer Limited v. Field et al[31].; but that rule does not preclude
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Memorial Gardens Association (Canada) Limited v. Colwood Cemetery Company - [1958] SCR 353 - 1958-04-22
Supreme Court JudgmentsPublic utilities
Scott v. The Fernie Lumber Company, Limited (1904), 11 B.C.R. 91 at 96, approved and applied. [...] very course of conduct that they assented to: Scott v. The Fernie Lumber Company, Limited1.
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London (City) et al. v. St. Thomas (City) et al. - [1958] SCR 249 - 1958-04-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
Solicitor for the respondents: W. Scott McKay,St. Thomas. [1] [1957] O.R. 37, 7 D.L.R. (2d) 140 (sub nom.
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The Municipality of the City and County of Saint-John et al. v. Fraser-Brace Overseas Corporation et al. - [1958] SCR 263 - 1958-04-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsInternational law
Taxation
Fraser-Brace Overseas Corporation, Terminal Construction Company, Limited and J. A. Jones Construction Company, doing business under the name and style of Fraser-Brace-Terminal Constructors; and Johnson, Drake & Piper International Corporation, and Merritt, Chapman & Scott Corporation, doing business under the name
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669.
Midcon Oil & Gas Limited v. New British Dominion Oil Company Limited and Thomas L. Brook - [1958] SCR 314 - 1958-02-11
Supreme Court JudgmentsAgency
Trust
As Professor Austin Wakeman Scott, in his work on Trusts, 2nd ed. 1956, s. 504 (vol. 4, p. 3238), puts it:
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Beatty and Mackie v. Kozak - [1958] SCR 177 - 1958-01-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsCivil law
Criminal law
In Rudd v. Scott9, an owner of a house had given in charge the plaintiff, employed by a tenant to execute repairs, for pulling down and stealing part of the materials of the house; and in the language of Tindal C.J. the Court could not say that the course pursued by the owner was so wide of the mark that he could not have [...] 9 (1841), 2 Scott, N.R. 631. 10 (1853), 13 C.B. 850, 138 E.R. 1437.
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British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited v. The Minister of National Revenue - [1958] SCR 133 - 1958-01-28
Supreme Court JudgmentsTaxation
As the quotation shows, this was not intended as an exhaustive definition, as pointed out by Scott L.J. in Bean v. Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries, Ltd.7, but as a useful guide.
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Hellens v. Densmore - [1957] SCR 768 - 1957-10-01
Supreme Court JudgmentsFamily law
The question as to whether an appeal might be taken from a decree granted in British Columbia was considered by the Full Court of the Province in Scott v. Scott [29], which decided that there was no appeal in such matters to the Full Court. [...] The appeal sections, as I have pointed out, were held not to be applicable and there has been no suggestion on the argument before us that Scott v. Scott, supra, and Brown v. Brown, supra, were wrongly decided.
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Edwards v. Bradley - [1957] SCR 599 - 1957-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsTrust
Reference might also be made to Russell v. Scott[5], a decision of the High Court of Australia.
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Lounsbury Company Limited v. Duthie and Sinclair - [1957] SCR 590 - 1957-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsContract
Courts
Sale
On this view of the case the company is liable for its failure to effect a provident sale on principles enunciated in McHugh v. Union Bank, 10 D.L.R. 562, [1913] A.C. 299, and Vanstone & Rogers v. Scott (1908), 1 Alta.
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Miller v. Decker - [1957] SCR 624 - 1957-06-26
Supreme Court JudgmentsTorts
They seem to have very little recollection as to what happened there but on returning Decker drove along Scott Road at 75 to 80 miles per hour passing other traffic until a railway crossing was reached.