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33 N.Y. 297 · New York Court of Appeals · Sep 5, 1865
In Brown, Receiver, v. Appleby (1 Sandf. S. … C., 629), it was held that a note of that description cannot be given up to the maker without consid *308 oration, even by the board of trustees of the company, and if so given up, a receiver of the company’s effects may
Cited 7 timesPublished169 Ill. 2d 132 · Illinois Supreme Court · Jan 18, 1996
CHIEF JUSTICE BILANDIC delivered the opinion the court: Following a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, the defendant, Cortez Brown, was convicted of one count of murder. … (People v.
Cited 139 timesPublished400 So. 2d 510 · District Court of Appeal of Florida · Jun 5, 1981
400 So.2d 510 (1981) Samuel Edward BROWN, Appellant, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee. No. 80-2322. District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District. June 5, 1981. Rehearing Denied July 8, 1981. … See Miles v. State, 374 So.2d 1167 (Fla. 2d DCA 1979), and McIntyre v. State, 380 So.2d 1064 (Fla. 2d DCA 1980).
Cited 16 timesPublished96 S.W.3d 508 · Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin) · Oct 31, 2002
A jury found appellant Lamont Ray Brown guilty of aggravated sexual assault and the trial court assessed punishment at imprisonment for fifty-five years. See Tex. Pen.Code Ann. § 22.021 (West Supp. 2001). … Moreno v. State, 858 S.W.2d 453, 463 (Tex.Crim.App.1993); Corley v. State, *512 987 S.W.2d 615, 618 (Tex.App.-Austin 1999, no pet.).
Cited 74 timesPublished93 Wis. 85 · Wisconsin Supreme Court · Apr 14, 1896
Ibid.; Nash v. Wetmore, 33 Barb. 155 ; Barnes v. Roberts, 5 Bosw. 73 ; Gurney v. Smithson, 7 Bosw. 396 ; Anderson v. Dickie, 17 Abb. Pr. 83 ; Whitney v. Karner, 44 Wis. 566 . … Dillon v. Linder, 36 Wis. 344 ; Farrell v. Drees, 41 Wis. 186 ; Rood v. C., M. & St. P. R. Co. 43 Wis. 146 ; Freiberg v. Singer, 90 Wis. 608 ; Ex parte McCardle, 7 Wall. 506 .
Cited 11 timesPublished303 Mich. 616 · Michigan Supreme Court · Dec 23, 1942
Brown, and took her in his automobile to his sister’s home for Sunday dinner. At about 5 o’clock in the afternoon he brought plaintiff back to her home, in his automobile. … Michaels v. Smith, 240 Mich. 671 . No such showing has been made, nor is the verdict so inadequate as to shock the judicial conscience. Watrous v. Conor, 266 Mich. 397 .” Campbell v. Brown, 276 Mich. 449, 454 .
Cited 30 timesPublished216 Ind. 106 · Indiana Supreme Court · Nov 6, 1939
The First National Bank of Cambridge City et al. v. Colter (1878), 61 Ind. 153, 159 ; Greer v. State (1929), 201 Ind. 386 , *109 388, 168 N. E. 581 ; Eva v. State (1932), 203 Ind. 340, 344 , 180 N. … Co. v. Maurer (1903), 160 Ind. 25, 30 , 66 N. E. 156 .
Cited 33 timesPublished1 Denio 400 · Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · Jul 15, 1845
(Erwin v. Saunders, 1 Cowen, 249; McCurtie v. Stevens, 13 Wend. 527 ; Eaves v. Henderson, 17 id. 190; Payne v. Ladue, 1 Hill, 116 .) It will not do to allow written contracts to be thus overturned by oral testimony.
Cited 6 timesPublished5 Or. 119 · Oregon Supreme Court · Dec 15, 1873
.: The record shows that Brown, the respondent, was indicted in the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Lane, on December 10, 1872, for the crime of larceny in a *120 shop.
Cited 7 timesPublished121 F.2d 101 · Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · May 20, 1941
Moreover, in Lane v. … It read as follows: “Comes now the appellant, Mary Estelle Brown, through her attorney, and moves this Honorable Court to issue upon the appellee, George Brown, a rule to show cause, if any he has, why he should not be adjudged
Cited 1 timesPublished32 Cal. 3d 236 · California Supreme Court · Sep 2, 1982
Board of Supervisors (1957) 48 Cal.2d 832, 839 [ 313 P.2d 545 ] [referendum inapplicable to repeal local sales and use tax]; Chase v. … V.
Cited 127 timesPublished245 So. 2d 68 · Supreme Court of Florida · Feb 17, 1971
The Defendant says that such instructions should have been given under our decision in Brown v. State, 206 So.2d 377 (Fla. 1968). … "Defendant cites the case of Brown v.
Vacated in part, on other grounds by Brown v. Florida, 408 U.S. 938 (1972)Cited 54 timesPublished8 Cal. 3d 855 · California Supreme Court · Feb 20, 1973
Brown was a passenger as distinguished from a guest under the guest statute. … has operated to bar recovery by an auto guest injured while physically inside the vehicle, but has allowed recovery by a nonpaying passenger who is injured while haying one foot on the ground and one foot on the running board
Disagreed with by Johnson v. Hassett, 1974 N.D. LEXIS 225 (1974)Cited 211 timesPublished154 Ky. 267 · Court of Appeals of Kentucky · Jun 5, 1913
Brown, deputy sheriff under him, and W. H. Dorton,' W. H. Estep and C. M. … Thomas as his securities, wherein the said Daniels asked to recover from said Brown and his sureties the sum of $2,600 for taxes which this appellee claimed to be due from said Brown and his sureties as such.
Cited 14 timesPublished75 Nev. 437 · Nevada Supreme Court · Oct 29, 1959
In the case of Lucas v. … Russell v.
Cited 40 timesPublished638 S.W.2d 369 · Tennessee Supreme Court · Aug 30, 1982
Thompson v. … Montana v. Wilson, Mont., 634 P.2d 172 (1981). In Stringer v.
Reversed by Pickett v. Brown, 462 U.S. 1 (1983)Cited 15 timesPublished27 Ill. 489 · Illinois Supreme Court · Apr 15, 1862
It is the case of Cox v. Taylor's Administrators., and reported in 10 B. Monroe, 17. … Touissant v. Martinnant, 2 T. R. 104; Cutler v. Powell, 6 ib. 324.
Cited 22 timesPublished28 Ga. 199 · Supreme Court of Georgia · Mar 15, 1859
Shildrake Brown was charged with murder as principal in the first degree, and the plaintiff in error as principal in the second degree ; and if Shildrake Brown assaulted the deceased with a deadly weapon, and his intention … The two Browns went immediately to the door, when the son instantly inflicted the mortal blow, the prisoner striking the deceased with his fist at the same time.
Cited 27 timesPublished269 Pa. 471 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · Feb 21, 1921
pleadings, and considering the able argument of counsel for appellants, we cannot say it is “clear and free from doubt” that the court below erred in refusing judgment; following the usual course pursued in such cases (Wilson v.
Cited 16 timesPublished1 Day 93 · Supreme Court of Connecticut · Jul 1, 1803
The equity of redemption, however, in Brown, the petitioner, was a thing totally different, to wit, real estate. … Why, then, did not this levy take the whole interest of Brown, and, consequently, his right to redeem ?
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