United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ...Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1896 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Opinion of the Court . telegraph purposes , but also because , in effect , it transfers to the tele- graph company the telegraphic franchise granted it by the United States , which was not permitted by the acts of Congress defining the ...
... Opinion of the Court . telegraph purposes , but also because , in effect , it transfers to the tele- graph company the telegraphic franchise granted it by the United States , which was not permitted by the acts of Congress defining the ...
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... Opinion of the Court . except at the usual and regular rates charged by said railway company for passengers and freight , nor give permission to nor make any agreement with any other telegraph company to construct or operate any ...
... Opinion of the Court . except at the usual and regular rates charged by said railway company for passengers and freight , nor give permission to nor make any agreement with any other telegraph company to construct or operate any ...
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... Opinion of the Court . or debar the Government of the United States from granting from time to time , similar franchises and privileges to other parties . " 12 Stat . 41 . If , however , it be contended that this is not the correct ...
... Opinion of the Court . or debar the Government of the United States from granting from time to time , similar franchises and privileges to other parties . " 12 Stat . 41 . If , however , it be contended that this is not the correct ...
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... Opinion of the Court . ceeded , all the telegraph lines , wires , poles , instruments , offices , and other property appertaining to telegraph business , that were possessed by the railroad company . These agreements were annulled by ...
... Opinion of the Court . ceeded , all the telegraph lines , wires , poles , instruments , offices , and other property appertaining to telegraph business , that were possessed by the railroad company . These agreements were annulled by ...
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... Opinion of the Court . they attempt to transfer certain franchises of the said company . The right to operate a telegraph line , and to fix and to collect tolls for the use of the same , is , to say the least , the most valuable part of ...
... Opinion of the Court . they attempt to transfer certain franchises of the said company . The right to operate a telegraph line , and to fix and to collect tolls for the use of the same , is , to say the least , the most valuable part of ...
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Page 480 - ... at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 611 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 415 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother ; and slew him.
Page 228 - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, but where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant...
Page 569 - It shall appear to the satisfaction of said circuit court at any time after such suit has been brought or removed thereto, that such suit does not really and substantially involve a dispute or controversy properly within the jurisdiction of said circuit court...
Page 199 - States, in the same manner and under the same regulations, and the writ shall have the same effect, as if the judgment or decree complained of had been rendered or passed in a circuit court...
Page 512 - The practice, pleadings, forms, and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes in the Circuit and District Courts, shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding, existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the State, within which such Circuit or District Courts are held, any rule of the court to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 110 - An act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri river to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two,' approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 480 - ... the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction...
Page 454 - It would be a very curious and unsatisfactory result If, In construing a provision of constitutional law always understood to have been adopted for protection and security to the rights of the individual as against the government, and which has received the commendation of jurists, statesmen, and commentators, as placing the just principles of the common law on that subject beyond the power of ordinary legislation to change or control them...