Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 109 |
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... Bonds - Statutes . Application being made to open the judgment in this case in order to enable the court to consider the case of Traver v . Merrick County , decided by the Supreme Court of Nebraska , and the court now having considered ...
... Bonds - Statutes . Application being made to open the judgment in this case in order to enable the court to consider the case of Traver v . Merrick County , decided by the Supreme Court of Nebraska , and the court now having considered ...
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... bonds . " A petition for rehearing was filed near the close of the last term , calling our attention to the fact that the Supreme Court of Nebraska had then recently decided that a grist - mill operated by water power was a work of ...
... bonds . " A petition for rehearing was filed near the close of the last term , calling our attention to the fact that the Supreme Court of Nebraska had then recently decided that a grist - mill operated by water power was a work of ...
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... bonds in aid of railroad subscriptions , where they failed to recite the statute authorizing their issue , but recited one which did not sustain their validity . The inquiry in such cases has been , was there , in any statute ...
... bonds in aid of railroad subscriptions , where they failed to recite the statute authorizing their issue , but recited one which did not sustain their validity . The inquiry in such cases has been , was there , in any statute ...
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... Bonds - Municipal Corporation - Railroads . 1. The court adheres to its former rulings in regard to the liability of munic- ipal corporations to innocent holders of the bonds of such corporations , issued in aid of railroads . Douglas v ...
... Bonds - Municipal Corporation - Railroads . 1. The court adheres to its former rulings in regard to the liability of munic- ipal corporations to innocent holders of the bonds of such corporations , issued in aid of railroads . Douglas v ...
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... bonds involved in this suit were all in the hands of innocent holders when the law of the State was so materially altered by its courts . In our opinion the rights of the parties to this suit are to be determined by the law as it was ...
... bonds involved in this suit were all in the hands of innocent holders when the law of the State was so materially altered by its courts . In our opinion the rights of the parties to this suit are to be determined by the law as it was ...
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Page 31 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 588 - The liability of the owner of any vessel for any embezzlement, loss or destruction by any person of any property, goods or merchandise, shipped or put on board of such vessel, or for any loss, damage or injury by collision, or for any act, matter or thing, loss, damage or forfeiture, done, occasioned or incurred, without the privity or knowledge of such owner or owners, shall in no case exceed the amount or value of the interest of such owner in such vessel and her freight then pending.
Page 792 - 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 with, or statement by, the testator, intestate or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto by the court.
Page 354 - ... nor shall any district, or circuit court, have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any promissory note, or other chose in action, in favor of an assignee, unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no assignment had been made, except in cases of foreign bills of exchange.
Page 8 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. He may withdraw his grant by discontinuing the use; but, so long as he maintains the use, he...
Page 593 - States," in those of equity and in those of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, according to the principles, rules and usages which belong to courts of equity and to courts of admiralty respectively, as contradistinguished from courts of common law...
Page 11 - It does not invest Congress with power to legislate upon subjects which are within the domain of State legislation; but to provide modes of relief against State legislation or State action, of the kind referred to. It does not authorize Congress to create a code of municipal law for the regulation of private rights...
Page 565 - No Indian nation or tribe, within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power, with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Page 28 - Every possible presumption is in favor of the validity of a statute, and this continues until the contrary is shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the government cannot encroach on the domain of another without danger. The safety of our institutions depends in no small degree on a strict observance of this salutary rule.
Page 587 - No owner of any vessel shall be liable to answer for or make good to any person any loss or damage which may happen to any merchandise whatsoever, which shall be shipped, taken in, or put on board any such vessel, by reason or by means of any fire happening to or on board the vessel, unless such fire is caused by the design or neglect of such owner.