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 that in actions ex delicto exemplary damages may be awarded when the injury is inflicted with malice or under circumstances of aggravation insult or cruelty; that the consideration for a promise to answer for the debt of another must be expressed in writing as well as the promise itself in order to take a case out of the statute of frauds; that organized towns are not municipal corporations within the meaning of Sec. 2 of Article XI of the constitution, but only quasi-corporations; and that when constitutional provisions or statutes which have been the subject of previous judicial construction in another state, are adopted by this state it is presumed that such construction is also adopted.