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... land grant was wrested from the Portage Company . A. then com- menced an action at law against the Portage Company , in which a judg- ment was recovered by his administratrix . Execution thereon being returned nulla bona , a bill in ...
... land grant was wrested from the Portage Company . A. then com- menced an action at law against the Portage Company , in which a judg- ment was recovered by his administratrix . Execution thereon being returned nulla bona , a bill in ...
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... lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of certain railroads , among others one " from a point on ... land grants were accepted by an act of the legislature , ap- proved October 8 , 1856 , ( Laws Wisconsin , 1856 , 137 ...
... lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of certain railroads , among others one " from a point on ... land grants were accepted by an act of the legislature , ap- proved October 8 , 1856 , ( Laws Wisconsin , 1856 , 137 ...
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... land grant applicable to the construction of the road from a point on St. Croix River to Bayfield , and to the Chicago and Northern Pacific Air - Line Railway Company , whose name was subsequently , and before 1878 , changed to that of ...
... land grant applicable to the construction of the road from a point on St. Croix River to Bayfield , and to the Chicago and Northern Pacific Air - Line Railway Company , whose name was subsequently , and before 1878 , changed to that of ...
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... land grant hereto- fore referred to . By the terms of that contract Angle was to receive $ 8500 per mile in cash and $ 5000 per mile in the full- paid stock of the company , on condition that he completed the road on or before May 5 ...
... land grant hereto- fore referred to . By the terms of that contract Angle was to receive $ 8500 per mile in cash and $ 5000 per mile in the full- paid stock of the company , on condition that he completed the road on or before May 5 ...
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... land grant in the hands of the Omaha Company . Mr. J. R. Doolittle and Mr. Thomas Ewing for appellant . Mr. Milton I. Southard was with Mr. Ewing on his brief . Mr. John F. Dillon and Mr. Thomas Wilson , for ap- pellee . MR . JUSTICE ...
... land grant in the hands of the Omaha Company . Mr. J. R. Doolittle and Mr. Thomas Ewing for appellant . Mr. Milton I. Southard was with Mr. Ewing on his brief . Mr. John F. Dillon and Mr. Thomas Wilson , for ap- pellee . MR . JUSTICE ...
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Page 511 - Court; and 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 495 - Every claim against the United States cognizable by the Court of Claims, shall be forever barred unless the petition setting forth a statement thereof is filed in the court, or transmitted to it by the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, as provided by law, within six years after the claim first accrues...
Page 101 - That every receiver or manager of any property appointed by any court of the United States may be sued in respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed ; but such suit shall be subject to the general equity jurisdiction of the court in which such receiver or manager was appointed, so far as the same shall be necessary to the ends of justice.
Page 394 - In the said territories, property of every kind, now belonging to Mexicans not established there, shall be inviolably respected. The present owners, the heirs of these, and all Mexicans who may hereafter acquire said property by contract, shall enjoy with respect to it guarantees equally ample as if the same belonged to citizens of the United States.
Page 500 - And no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he shall be found at the time of serving the writ...
Page 265 - Every murder perpetrated by poison, lying in wait, or any other kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing; or committed in the perpetration of, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, burglary, or robbery; or perpetrated from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree.
Page 56 - Court a petition, accompanied by the necessary security, for the removal of the cause to the Circuit Court of the United States.
Page 693 - Be it therefore enacted, that whensoever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof...
Page 586 - The power of the General Government over these remnants of a race once powerful, now weak and diminished in numbers, is necessary to their protection, as well as to the safety of those among whom they dwell. It must exist in that government, because it never has existed anywhere else, because the...
Page 585 - From their very weakness and helplessness, so largely due to the course of dealing of the Federal Government with them and the treaties in which it has been promised, there arise the duty of protection, and with it the power.