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... questions must be answered in the negative . We have nothing to do with the wisdom or policy of legislation . The ... question of legislative power . If the power existed to enact the statute of 1888 , the duty of the courts is to ...
... questions must be answered in the negative . We have nothing to do with the wisdom or policy of legislation . The ... question of legislative power . If the power existed to enact the statute of 1888 , the duty of the courts is to ...
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... question before us just as if a contract or arrangement , between the railroad and a telegraph company , for the construction by the latter of a telegraph line on the route of the former , expressly recited the provision of the act of ...
... question before us just as if a contract or arrangement , between the railroad and a telegraph company , for the construction by the latter of a telegraph line on the route of the former , expressly recited the provision of the act of ...
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... question , therefore , is whether such a contract was permitted by the acts of Congress defining the obligations of railroad companies that had accepted the bounty of the Government . For the reasons we have given in the discussion of ...
... question , therefore , is whether such a contract was permitted by the acts of Congress defining the obligations of railroad companies that had accepted the bounty of the Government . For the reasons we have given in the discussion of ...
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... question when the corporation is an actual party to the suit , actively present , and actively engaged in the litiga- tion . Pacific Removal Cases , 115 U. S. 1 ; Metcalf v . Water- town , 128 U. S. 586. It is only when an act of ...
... question when the corporation is an actual party to the suit , actively present , and actively engaged in the litiga- tion . Pacific Removal Cases , 115 U. S. 1 ; Metcalf v . Water- town , 128 U. S. 586. It is only when an act of ...
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... question alleged in the petition for removal , or shown by the pleadings , was that suggested by the incorporation of the Northern Pacific Company ; and when it appeared that that company never appeared , and that no service was made on ...
... question alleged in the petition for removal , or shown by the pleadings , was that suggested by the incorporation of the Northern Pacific Company ; and when it appeared that that company never appeared , and that no service was made on ...
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Page 480 - ... to establish a defence on the ground of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring 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 665 - State within which the association is located; but the legislature of each State may determine and direct the manner and place of taxing all the shares of national banking associations located within the State, subject only to the two restrictions, that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State, and that the shares of any national banking association owned by non-residents of any State shall be taxed in...
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 539 - States, which declares that full faith and credit shall be given in each state to the judicial proceedings of every other state...
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.