Union Pacific Railway Co. v. Callaghan
Citations
- 161 U.S. 91
Syllabus
<p>When the bond, in a case brought here by writ of error, is defective, this court will generally allow a proper bond to be filed, if necessary.</p> <p>An exception to the refusal of the trial court to find for the defendant is, waived, if made by defendant without resting his ease.</p> <p>Where propositions submitted to a jury are excepted to in mass, the exception will be overruled provided any of the propositions be correct.</p> <p>Where a general exception is taken to the refusal of a series of instructions, it will not be considered if any one of the propositions is unsound.</p>
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- explaining the three readings requirement is not violated when “[p]rovisions wholly discordant from the text [are] inserted by way of amendment, provided the main purpose and essential character of the original are not necessarily impaired or modified.”
- “a substitute bill or amendment, if so germane to the original bill as to be a proper substitute or amendment, does not have to go back and be read three times, but may include as part of its required readings those had before the substitution or amendment was made.”
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Judges: Fuller
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