 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1094 pages
...Justice SHIRAS, after stating the? facts In the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court In the memory of men now living, a proposition to...regarded as a novel exercise of legislative power. It Is true that, hi the case of many of the older cities and towns, there were commons or public grounds,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1372 pages
...States, 147 US 282, 13 Sup. Ct. 361, 37 L. Ed. 170, the court, speaking through Mr. Justice Shiras, say: "In the memory of men now living a proposition to take private property without the consent of the owner for a public park and to assess a proportionate part of the cost upon real estate benefited... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 728 pages
...action. At the opening of his opinion in Shoemaker v. United States ' Mr. Justice Shiras remarks that " in the memory of men now living, a proposition to take private property without the 1 consent of its owner for a public park and to assess a proportionate part of the cost upon real estate... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Courts - 1893 - 770 pages
...in error. MR. JUSTICE SHJRAS, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court. In the memory of men now living, a proposition to...regarded as a novel exercise of legislative power. It is true that, in the case of many of the older cities and towns, there were commons or public grounds,... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - Natural resources - 1900 - 232 pages
...judicial tribunals. In Shoemaker v. United States, supra, Justice Shiras, speaking of city parks, says: "In the memory of men now living a proposition to...cost upon real estate benefited thereby, would have beeri regarded as a novel exercise of legislative power." May not this growth in the conception of... | |
 | Frederick Newton Judson - Taxation - 1903 - 906 pages
...established under Act of Congress for the District of Columbia, that in the memory of men now living the proposition to take private property without the consent of its owner for a public park and assess a proportionate part of the cost upon the real estate benefited would have been regarded as... | |
 | Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett - Art, Municipal - 1909 - 288 pages
...the case of Shoemaker v. United States, 147 US 282, 297, speaking through Mr. Justice Shiras, said: "In the memory of men now living, a proposition to...regarded as a novel exercise of legislative power. It is true that, in the case of many of the older cities and towns, there were common or public grounds,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1374 pages
...Mr. Justice Shiras, writing, in 1892, the opinion of the court, in Shoemaker v. United States, supra, a proposition to take private property without the...regarded as a novel exercise of legislative power. It is true that, in the case of many of the older cities and towns, there were commons or public grounds,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1376 pages
..."In the memory of men now living a proposition to take private property without the consent of the owner for a public park and to assess a proportionate...regarded as a novel exercise of legislative power. * » • There is now scarcely a city of any considerable size in the entire country that does not... | |
 | Oregon - 1917 - 812 pages
...District of Columbia and assessing part of the cost upon the property especially benefited, said : "In the memory of men now living, a proposition to...regarded as a novel exercise of legislative power." And, in the case of Attorney General v. Williams, 174 Mass. 476, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,... | |
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In the memory of men now living, a proposition to take private property, without the consent of its owner, for a public park, and to assess a proportionate part of the cost upon real estate benefited thereby, would have been regarded as a novel exercise... 
