The Federal Reporter, Volume 88West Publishing Company, 1898 - Law reports, digests, etc Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. |
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... LIBEL . An action to recover damages for a libel alleged to have been written and published by certain of the defendants , acting as agents of their co- defendant , contains no separable controversy which will enable such co- defendant ...
... LIBEL . An action to recover damages for a libel alleged to have been written and published by certain of the defendants , acting as agents of their co- defendant , contains no separable controversy which will enable such co- defendant ...
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... libel in admiralty to recover for personal injuries , where the evi- dence is such as to leave the circumstances and cause of the injury so uncertain that the court can give no logical reason for determining the issue in libelant's ...
... libel in admiralty to recover for personal injuries , where the evi- dence is such as to leave the circumstances and cause of the injury so uncertain that the court can give no logical reason for determining the issue in libelant's ...
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... libel- ant ; and her evidence is quite as credible as that of the libelant on this issue . It must be remembered that the libelant has the burden of proof , and the object of such proof is to carry conviction to the mind of the court ...
... libel- ant ; and her evidence is quite as credible as that of the libelant on this issue . It must be remembered that the libelant has the burden of proof , and the object of such proof is to carry conviction to the mind of the court ...
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... libel against the timber in the United States district court for the Northern district of Florida . Whitmire interposed a claim and filed his answer . Upon the hearing upon the merits the district judge awarded Cobb , the appellee , the ...
... libel against the timber in the United States district court for the Northern district of Florida . Whitmire interposed a claim and filed his answer . Upon the hearing upon the merits the district judge awarded Cobb , the appellee , the ...
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... libel " W. A. Blount and A. C. Blount , for appellant . B. C. Tunison , for appellee . Before PARDEE and McCORMICK , Circuit Judges , and PAR- LANGE , District Judge . PER CURIAM . The assignments of error raise two questions : Is the ...
... libel " W. A. Blount and A. C. Blount , for appellant . B. C. Tunison , for appellee . Before PARDEE and McCORMICK , Circuit Judges , and PAR- LANGE , District Judge . PER CURIAM . The assignments of error raise two questions : Is the ...
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Page 460 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 260 - States, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States, or treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority, or in which controversy the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners, or in which there shall be a controversy between citizens of different States...
Page 260 - ... 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 658 - And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.
Page 363 - All property subject to taxation shall be taxed according to its value, that value to be ascertained in such manner as the General Assembly shall direct, making the same equal and uniform throughout the State. No one species of property from which a tax may be collected shall be taxed higher than another species of property of equal value...
Page 569 - ... nor shall any circuit or district court have cognizance of any suit except upon foreign bills of exchange, to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action in favor of any assignee, or of any subsequent holder...
Page 143 - That the party of the first part has hereby let and rented to the party of the second part...
Page 368 - The general assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful by levying a tax, by valuation, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her or its property...
Page 245 - If a building or any part thereof fall, except as the result of fire, all insurance by this policy on such building or its contents shall immediately cease.
Page 107 - Court discharging the prisoner, that he was held "in custody for an act done in pursuance of a law of the United States...