United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 174United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1899 - Courts |
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Page 70
... filed , in the district court of Arapahoe County , State of Colorado , against Frank Hall , treasurer of said county , a bill of complaint seeking to restrain the defendant from en- forcing payment by the said transit company of certain ...
... filed , in the district court of Arapahoe County , State of Colorado , against Frank Hall , treasurer of said county , a bill of complaint seeking to restrain the defendant from en- forcing payment by the said transit company of certain ...
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... filed denying some and admitting other allegations of the bill . At the trial the parties agreed to and filed the following stipu- lation : " 1st . That plaintiff is and was during the times mentioned in the petition a corporation duly ...
... filed denying some and admitting other allegations of the bill . At the trial the parties agreed to and filed the following stipu- lation : " 1st . That plaintiff is and was during the times mentioned in the petition a corporation duly ...
Page 93
... filed an exception and motion to strike out a portion of the defendant's answers on the ground that the official plat of survey of G. F. Connelly , United States surveyor , made in 1836 , and on which his patent was based , cannot be ...
... filed an exception and motion to strike out a portion of the defendant's answers on the ground that the official plat of survey of G. F. Connelly , United States surveyor , made in 1836 , and on which his patent was based , cannot be ...
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... filed in the present case , 58 Kansas , 447 , 450 , that court observed : " Our statute is somewhat in the nature of a police regu- lation , designed to enforce care on the part of railroad compa- nies to prevent the communication of ...
... filed in the present case , 58 Kansas , 447 , 450 , that court observed : " Our statute is somewhat in the nature of a police regu- lation , designed to enforce care on the part of railroad compa- nies to prevent the communication of ...
Page 149
... filed a brief for same . MR . JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court . This was an information filed November 13 , 1888 , in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California to obtain a decree ...
... filed a brief for same . MR . JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court . This was an information filed November 13 , 1888 , in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California to obtain a decree ...
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Page 103 - But neither the amendment — broad and comprehensive as it is — nor any other amendment was designed to interfere with the power of the State, sometimes termed its police power, to prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, and good order of the people...
Page 366 - To exercise by its board of directors or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt...
Page 702 - Every proprietor of lands on the banks of a river has naturally an equal right to the use of the water which flows in the stream adjacent to his lands, as it was wont to run (currere solebat), without diminution or alteration. No proprietor has a right to use the water to the prejudice of other proprietors, above or below him, unless he has a prior right to divert it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment. He has no property in the water itself, but a simple usufruct while it passes along. 'Aqua...
Page 507 - that the laws of the several states, except where the Constitution, treaties or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply.
Page 400 - All debts due to any associations, on which interest is past due and unpaid for a period of six months, unless the same are well secured, and in process of collection, shall be considered bad debts within the meaning of this section.
Page 513 - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war ; 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag; 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective ; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 757 - What the company is entitled to demand, in order that it may have just compensation, is a fair return upon the reasonable value of the property at the time it is being used for the public.
Page 762 - Any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized under the laws of any state, shall have the right to construct, maintain and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Page 594 - States; or (5) admitted in writing his inability to pay his debts and his willingness to be adjudged a bankrupt on that ground.
Page 592 - Acts of bankruptcy by a person shall consist of his having (1) conveyed, transferred, concealed, or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, any part of his property with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors, or any of them; or (2) transferred, while insolvent, any portion of his property to one or more of his creditors with intent to prefer such creditors over his other creditors...