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... reason , the animal was dead before it was returned , and there may have been some evidence that Byrne had spitefully set dogs on the hog to worry it to death . Lincoln contended that the hog had been wrongfully taken from his client ...
... reason , the animal was dead before it was returned , and there may have been some evidence that Byrne had spitefully set dogs on the hog to worry it to death . Lincoln contended that the hog had been wrongfully taken from his client ...
Page 73
... reason that he should destroy them ? Why did he put them there at first ? If they were merely playing that unimportant part , would not the same reason which induced him to put them there also have induced him to keep them there ...
... reason that he should destroy them ? Why did he put them there at first ? If they were merely playing that unimportant part , would not the same reason which induced him to put them there also have induced him to keep them there ...
Page 83
... reasons for them . The decisions of a court of last resort ought to be , in the narrow sense , legal ; but they ought also to be reasonable , and judges may need guidance in knowing where reason as well as where law lies . Second ...
... reasons for them . The decisions of a court of last resort ought to be , in the narrow sense , legal ; but they ought also to be reasonable , and judges may need guidance in knowing where reason as well as where law lies . Second ...
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