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  • Shaw v. Brown

    13 Iowa 508 · Supreme Court of Iowa · Jun 28, 1862

    was bound to convey the amount so sold, provided it did not exceed pro rata the sum paid; and if Brown failed, after notice and demand, to do so in a reasonable time, Shaw would be absolved from further performance of the … See the case of McCraney, Exr., v. Griffin et al. Again, much emphasis is laid upon the refusal of the court to give to the jury the fourteenth and sixteenth instructions asked by the defense.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • State v. . Brown

    218 N.C. 415 · Supreme Court of North Carolina · Nov 7, 1940

    S. v. Utley, supra; S. v. Blackwelder, 182 N. C., 899 .” S. v. Coal Co., 210 N. C., 742 (746). Defendant admitted that be shot bis wife, Bertha Brown, three times, either of which wounds could produce death. … S. v. Burney, 215 N. C., 598 (614). In S. v. Steele, 190 N.

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Brown

    464 Pa. 625 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Nov 26, 1975

    See Commonwealth v. Brown, 228 Pa.Super. 166 , 323 A.2d 281 (1974). We granted appellant’s petition for allowance of appeal and now reverse his judgment of sentence. The facts surrounding this appeal are as follows. … In Ham v.

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • Weese v. Brown

    102 Mo. 299 · Supreme Court of Missouri · Oct 15, 1890

    Without deciding whether or not such demand was necessary under' former rulings of this court on the subject (Cornelius v. McDonald (1828), 2 Mo. 55 ; Rollins v. … S. 1889, sec. 2302 ; Pickle v. Railroad (1873), 54 Mo. 219 .

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Vailes v. Brown

    16 Colo. 462 · Supreme Court of Colorado · Sep 15, 1891

    Cock v. Bunn, 6 Johns. 326 . … See Cooley v.

    Cited 13 timesPublished
  • Hand v. Brown

    144 Ga. 272 · Supreme Court of Georgia · Nov 12, 1915

    Smith v. Martin, 54 Ga. 600 ; *274 Groover v. White, 54 Ga. 601 ; Holcombe v. Dupree, 50 Ga. 335 ; 35 Cyc. 615. 2, 3. … Wakefield v. Moore, 65 Ga. 268 .

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Commonwealth v. Brown

    462 Mass. 620 · Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Jun 28, 2012

    Commonwealth v. Norris, ante 131, 142 (2012), quoting Commonwealth v. … Commonwealth v. Mosher, supra. See Commonwealth v. Norris, supra at 141-142, quoting Commonwealth v.

    Cited 18 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Furer

    4 Serg. & Rawle 213 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · May 20, 1818

    This distinction was taken by the Supreme Court of New York, in the cases of Livingston v. Livingston's exr's. 3 Johns. 189 , and Beecker v. Beecker, 7 Johns. 99 . … This appears in the case of Nicholson v. Shirman, 1 Sid. 45, and T. Ray. 23. Lord Holt, indeed, is reported to have said, in the case of Ewer v. Jones, 2 Ld.

    Cited 6 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Ellison

    304 N.W.2d 197 · Supreme Court of Iowa · Apr 15, 1981

    In Griffith v. … Diamond Alkali Co., 208 N.W.2d 910, 913 (Iowa 1973); Quad County Grain, Inc. v. Poe, 202 N.W.2d 118, 120 (Iowa 1972); Henschel v. Hawkeye-Security Insurance Co., 178 N.W.2d 409, 414 (Iowa 1970); Brown v.

    Overruled on other grounds by Franzen v. Deere and Co., 1983 Iowa Sup. LEXIS 1553 (1983)Cited 39 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Ames

    59 Minn. 476 · Supreme Court of Minnesota · Dec 21, 1894

    Worthington v. Cowles, 112 Mass. 30 . But we have examined and re-examined the record in this case with great care, and have been unable to find any evidence that defendant ever was the agent of Newton for any purpose. … Brown about taking it.” The insufficiency of any such casual remark to create the relation of principal and agent between defendant and Newton is too apparent to require-discussion.

    Cited 11 timesPublished
  • Brown v. State

    255 Ind. 594 · Indiana Supreme Court · Jan 29, 1971

    Loretta Moore further testified that Willie Brown shot the decedent in the back, and then shot him several more times. The decedent’s girl friend, Barbara Lewis, testified to substantially the same facts. … McPhearson v. State (1966), 247 Ind. 579 , 219 N. E. 2d 907 ; Greenwalt v. State (1965), 246 Ind. 608 , 209 N. E. 2d 254 .

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • State v. Brown

    360 S.W.2d 618 · Supreme Court of Missouri · Oct 8, 1962

    A jury convicted John Allen Brown, Jr., of robbery in the first degree and fixed his punishment at ten years in the state penitentiary. … State v. Smith, Mo., 324 S.W.2d 702, 706 [4].

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Oattis

    55 Ga. 416 · Supreme Court of Georgia · Jul 15, 1875

    Cited 9 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Hartzell

    87 Mo. 564 · Supreme Court of Missouri · Oct 15, 1885

    Cochran v. Whitesides, 34 Mo. 418 ; More v. Perry, 61 Mo. 174 ; Reed v. Price, 30 Mo. 446 ; Ware v. Johnson, 55 Mo. 502 . In Watts v.

    Cited 19 timesPublished
  • Hinton v. Brown

    1 Blackf. 429 · Indiana Supreme Court · May 5, 1826

    Vide Springer et al. v. Peterson et al., ante, p. 188.

    Cited 8 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Bryan

    6 Idaho 1 · Idaho Supreme Court · Jan 24, 1898

    Bank v. Williams, 2 Idaho, 670 , 23 Pac. 552 ; Kelley v. Leachman, 3 Idaho, 392 , 29 Pac. 849 , and eases there cited; Wilson v. Thompson, 4 Idaho, 678 , 43 Pac. 557 .) … This court has so decided, substantially, in the case of Hawkins v.

    Cited 20 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Foley

    158 Fla. 734 · Supreme Court of Florida · Apr 15, 1947

    In a large measure the City relies on our opinion, Nelson v. State, 157 Fla. 412 , 26 So. (2nd) 60 , wherein we declined to hold the ordinance bad. … See Roach v. Ephren, 82 Fla. 523 , 90 So. 609 ; Perry Trading Co. v.

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Gill v. Brown

    130 Tenn. 174 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Sep 15, 1914

    This is an action by Will Brown against George Gill and his brother to recover damages resulting from a boiler explosion. … S.], 337, and Byers v. Carnegie Steel Co., 16 L. R. A. [N.

    Cited 16 timesPublished
  • Brown v. Hurst

    3 Neb. 353 · Nebraska Supreme Court · Jul 15, 1874

    Breese v. The State, 12 Ohio State, 146 .

    Cited 10 timesPublished
  • Cunningham v. Brown

    39 W. Va. 588 · West Virginia Supreme Court · Dec 1, 1894

    Brown, contesting the validity of Brown’s purchase of a certaiu tract of land sold by the sheriff as delinquent for taxes on November 24, 1885, and praying that the tax-deed made to him by the clerk bf the County Court on … Board, 21 Wis. 688 ; Gould v. Sullivan, 84 Wis. 659 (36 Am. R. 955) (L. R. A. 487); Black. Tax Titles, § 162; Cooley, Tax’n, p. 367; Lumber Co. v. Wells, 157 Pa. St. 5 ( 27 Atl. 408 ).

    Cited 18 timesPublished

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