United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 117United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1886 - Courts |
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... business over the road having failed , this suit was brought , and the prayer of the bill is : " 1. That during the pendency of this suit the defendant , its Opinion of the Court . officers , agents , servants EXPRESS CASES . 5.
... business over the road having failed , this suit was brought , and the prayer of the bill is : " 1. That during the pendency of this suit the defendant , its Opinion of the Court . officers , agents , servants EXPRESS CASES . 5.
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... officers , agents , servants and employés may be restrained and enjoined by a proper preliminary or provisional order or injunc- tion , and until the further order of the court , from interfering in any manner with or disturbing in any ...
... officers , agents , servants and employés may be restrained and enjoined by a proper preliminary or provisional order or injunc- tion , and until the further order of the court , from interfering in any manner with or disturbing in any ...
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... officers and agents on and after the fourteenth of June , " all contracts or arrangements existing between the companies would terminate on that day . The notice concluded as follows : " We shall be glad to receive , transport , and ...
... officers and agents on and after the fourteenth of June , " all contracts or arrangements existing between the companies would terminate on that day . The notice concluded as follows : " We shall be glad to receive , transport , and ...
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... officers , agents , and servants , have no right to open or inspect any of the packages or express matter which may be offered to it for transportation by the plaintiff's company , or to demand a knowledge of the contents thereof , nor ...
... officers , agents , and servants , have no right to open or inspect any of the packages or express matter which may be offered to it for transportation by the plaintiff's company , or to demand a knowledge of the contents thereof , nor ...
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... officers , agents , servants , and employés , and all persons acting under their authority , be , and they hereby are , permanently and perpetually enjoined and restrained from interfering with or disturbing in any manner the enjoyment ...
... officers , agents , servants , and employés , and all persons acting under their authority , be , and they hereby are , permanently and perpetually enjoined and restrained from interfering with or disturbing in any manner the enjoyment ...
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Page 234 - ... 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 court to the contrary notwithstanding,
Page 575 - No contract or order, or any interest therein, shall be transferred by the party to whom such contract or order is given to any other party, and any such transfer shall cause the annulment of the contract or order transferred, so far as the United States are concerned. All rights of action, however, for any breach of such contract by the contracting parties, are reserved to the United States.
Page 35 - All property shall be taxed according to its value; that value to be ascertained in such manner as the legislature shall direct, so that the same shall be equal and uniform throughout the State. No one species of property from which a tax may be collected, shall be taxed higher than any other species of property of equal value.
Page 158 - If the States may tax one instrument, employed by the government in the execution of its powers, they may tax any and every other instrument. They may tax the mail; they may tax the mint; they may tax patent rights; they may tax the papers of the custom house ; they may tax judicial process ; they may tax all the means employed by the government, to an excess which would defeat all the ends of government. This was not intended by the American people. They did not design to make their government dependent...
Page 316 - Mariners, and of all other Perils, Losses, and Misfortunes, that have or shall come to the Hurt, Detriment, or Damage of the said Goods and Merchandises and Ship, &c., or any Part thereof...
Page 312 - Any carrier or party liable on account of loss of or damage to any of said property shall have the full benefit of any insurance that may have been effected upon or on account of said property, so far as this shall not avoid the policies or contracts of insurance: Provided, That the carrier reimburse the claimant for the premium paid thereon.
Page 579 - States no witness shall be excluded in any action on account of color, or in any civil action because he is a party to or interested in the issue tried : Provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction \vith, or statement by, the testator, intestate, or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to...
Page 431 - ... if the suit is one in which there can be a final determination of the controversy, so far as it concerns him, without the presence of the other defendants as parties in the cause...
Page 108 - ... would take the representation to be true, and believe that it was meant that he should act upon it, and did act upon it as true, the party making the representation would be equally precluded from contesting its truth.
Page 246 - The court, or justice, or judge shall proceed in a summary way to determine the facts of the case, by hearing the testimony and arguments, and thereupon to dispose of the party as law and justice require.