The Federal Reporter, Volume 34West Publishing Company, 1888 - 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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... tion has been returned unsatisfied . It is insisted that the complainant must first exhaust his remedy at law against Baker , before he can come into a court of equity and invoke its aid for the purpose of avoiding the alleged ...
... tion has been returned unsatisfied . It is insisted that the complainant must first exhaust his remedy at law against Baker , before he can come into a court of equity and invoke its aid for the purpose of avoiding the alleged ...
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... tion of five elements , and it is apparent that defendants ' form has the standard , the ribs or their equivalent , and the double braces of the Hall patent . The question of infringement turns upon whether the defend- ants ' form ...
... tion of five elements , and it is apparent that defendants ' form has the standard , the ribs or their equivalent , and the double braces of the Hall patent . The question of infringement turns upon whether the defend- ants ' form ...
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... tion at this stage of the cause , before sale , is raised and argued by counsel , whether the claim of this Mitchell , who was once a seaman on the sloop , will have priority over the claim of the libelants , who sup- plied her with ...
... tion at this stage of the cause , before sale , is raised and argued by counsel , whether the claim of this Mitchell , who was once a seaman on the sloop , will have priority over the claim of the libelants , who sup- plied her with ...
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... tion of the master . But even then it is not conclusive , and may be con- tradicted . Gordon v . Insurance Co. , 2 Pick . 263 . In this case the proper proof of the facts ascertained on the surveys of the Director is the testimony of ...
... tion of the master . But even then it is not conclusive , and may be con- tradicted . Gordon v . Insurance Co. , 2 Pick . 263 . In this case the proper proof of the facts ascertained on the surveys of the Director is the testimony of ...
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... tion , and consequently the complainants have the right to contest the will under the provisions of section 1961 , and might have filed their pe- tition or bill to set aside the probate in the chancery court of Issaquena county , but ...
... tion , and consequently the complainants have the right to contest the will under the provisions of section 1961 , and might have filed their pe- tition or bill to set aside the probate in the chancery court of Issaquena county , but ...
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Page 501 - 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 722 - It is that state of the case, which, after the entire comparison and consideration of all the evidence, leaves the minds of the jurors in that condition that they cannot say they feel an abiding conviction, to a moral certainty, of the truth of the charge.
Page 81 - 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 473 - Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith...
Page 225 - ... 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 502 - When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action, had he lived, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission.
Page 355 - Field's opinion clearly established California law. In 1865 Justice Lorenzo Sawyer could safely say that "it is now settled in this State that parol evidence is admissible to show that a deed absolute on its face was intended to be a mortgage.
Page 220 - And where a suit is now pending, or may be hereafter brought, in any state court, in which there is a controversy between a citizen of the State in which the suit is brought and a citizen of another St^te, any defendant, being such citizen of another State...
Page 510 - That no possessory action between individuals in any of the courts of the United States for the recovery of any mining title, or for damages to any such title, shall be affected by the fact that the paramount title to the land on which such mines are, is in the United States, but each case shall be adjudged by the law of possession ;
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