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delivered the opinion of the court. The petition for habeas corpus filed by the appellants on April 14, 1920, to obtain their release from confinement in the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Leavenworth, having, on motion of the United States, been dismissed on the face of the petition and documents annexed, the appeal which is now before us was prosecuted. We are therefor...
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delivered the opinion of the court. In his return to a writ of habeas corpus, which was allowed on the petition of appellant averring that he was restrained of his liberty in violation of his constitutional rights, the warden of the penitentiary at Atlanta, asserting the lawfulness of his custody of the petitioner, annexed as part of his return the following .documents: (1) A copy of Genera...
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255 U.S. 22 (1921) BERGER ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. No. 460. Supreme Court of United States. Argued December 9, 1920. Decided January 31, 1921. CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. *23 Mr. Seymour Stedman and Mr. Henry F. Cochems for Berger et al. The Solicitor General for the United States. *26 MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court. Section 21 of...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is an action to recover the amount of taxes levied under statutes of Alaska which the plaintiff alleges to be contrary to the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912, c. 387, § 3, 37 Stat. 512, creating a legislative assembly' in the Territory of Alaska, and to the Constitution of the United States. Judgment was given for the defendant upon demurrer to t...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit brought September 11, 1916, in the District Court of the United States, by the petitioner, a Missouri corporation, against citizens of Missouri, for an infringement of a trade-mark, “Stark Trees,” registered under the Act of Congress of February 20, 1905, c. 592, 33 Stat. 724, and amendments. The District Court found infringement and unfai...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is an appeal from a final order of the District Court discharging a writ of habeas corpus and remanding appellant to the custody of appellee for rendition to a representative of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, pursuant to a warrant issued by the Governor of New Jersey under § 5278, Rev. Stats. Upon the hearing before the District Court on return o...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The main question in this case is whether the Oregon .& Washington Railroad Company acquired, as owner of-land adjoining East Waterway in the Port of Seattle, the right to build in the waterway piers, wharves, and other structures over which it would secure access from its-land to the navigable channel. The question arises in a suit to quiet the title of...
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delivered the opinion of the.' court. In a suit in the United States District Court for Porto. Rico, where the appellant, a bank incorporated in Porto Rico, was plaintiff, and the appellee, a citizen of the United States, was defendant, a final decree in favor of the bank was rendered, and from that decree the defendant took the case to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. *74...
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delivered the opinion of the court. Consequent on the allowance of a writ of certiorari, the case is here to review the action of the court below in granting, in an admiralty case there pending, a motion for leave to withdraw an ¿ppeal made by the respondents, who were there appellants. 256 Fed. Rep. 224. The situation thus arose: The schooner “John Twohy ” was chartered to carry a cargo o...
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255 U.S. 81 (1921) UNITED STATES v. L. COHEN GROCERY COMPANY. No. 324. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 18, 19, 1920. Decided February 28, 1921. ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. *85 Mr. Louis B. Sher and Mr. Chester H. Krum for defendant in error. Mr. William D. Guthrie, Mr. Benjamin F. Spellman and Mr. Bernard Hershkopf, by leav...
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delivered the opinion of the court. Various dealers in wearing apparel in the City of Denver filed their bill to enjoin the United States Attorney from instituting prosecution^ against them under § 4 of the Lever Act on the ground that Congress had no power to adopt that section because a state of peace prevailed, or, if a state of war existed, the regulation of the price for which wearing appa...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The appellants, dealers in wearing apparehin the city of Jackson, Mississippi, filed their bill in the court below against the Attorney General and subordinates charged by him with administrative duties under § 4 of the Lever *101 Act to enjoin the enforcement against them of provisions of that section. Their right to relief was based upon a...
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delivered the opinion of the court. In the first of the above cases the Creamery Company and others, appellees, filed their bill in the court below *103 against the United States Attorney and the members of the “Federal Fair Price Committee” for an injunction to restrain prosecutions against them for selling milk at alleged unjust and unreasonable rates or charges, in violation of the fourth ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. An indictment having been returned against the appellant in the court below for violating the fourth section of the Lever Act by selling wearing apparel at an unjust or unreasonable rate or charge, it filed its bill in that court praying that the United States Attorney be enjoined from proceeding with the prosecution, assigning, as grounds for the injunction,...
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delivered the opinion of the. court. In this cáse the complainants filed their bill to enjoin the Attorney General and the United States Attorney from taking steps to enforce against them provisions of the fourth section of the Lever Act, on the ground, among others, of their repugnancy to the Constitution-of the United States because of their vagueness and want of constitutional standard. On m...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff in error is here to reverse a verdict and. sentence against it on an indictment containing four counts charging it with four separate violations of the fourth section of the Lever Act. At the close of all the testimony it requested the court to charge the jury that the provisions of that section relied upon were repugnant to the Constitution of ...
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concurred in the result, the former delivering the following opinion, in which the latter concurred. In this case, as in No. 324, United States v. Cohen Grocery Co., ante, 81, while concurring in the judgment of the court,'I am unable to yield assent to the grounds upon which it is based. Most of the counts in the indictment upon which plaintiffs in error were convicted allege specific violations ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. Defeiidants in error, alleging themselves to be engaged either as wholesale or as retail grocers in Indianapolis, Indiana, brought this suit against plaintiff in error, herein *115 called the Railroad Company, to restrain it from charging or receiving any other compensation than that mentioned and described in an order entered by the Railroa...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The City of Fremont is a city of Nebraska of the first class, having more than 5,000 and less than 25,000 inhabitant^. By an ordinance duly enacted in 1903 and reenacted in 1907, there was levied a license tax upon businesses .and occupations within the city including telegraph offices. Upon these offices it levied a tax of $60.00 per year on the busines...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is the second writ of error in this case. The opinion upon the first writ is reported in 245 U. S. 146. The suit here is, as it was there, upon a certificate of qualified life insurance, issued to Frank Barber and payable at his, death to his wife, the plaintiff, who has since died and her administratrix has been substituted as defendant in error. The ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. Review of an indictment in two counts for violation of § 135 of the Criminal Code of the United States, which provides as follows: “Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, shall endeavor to influence, intimidate, or impede any witness, in any court of the United States or before any United States commissione...
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delivered the opinion of the court. Appellant, the Lower Vein Coal Company, is a corporation of the State of Indiana. The Industrial Board of Indiana is a board created by an Act of the General Assembly of Indiana, approved March 8, 1915, known as “The . Indiana Workmen’s Compensation Act.” The per sonal appellees are members of the board. This suit was brought by the Coal Company to enjoin t...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is a bill in equity brought by the respondent, the Conkling Mining Company, in order to establish its right to a large body of ore found under the southwesterly 135.5 feet of its patent as laid out by courses and distances, and to obtain an account from the petitioner, which has mined the ore, making a claim of right on its side. The District Court ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The United States brought an action January 18, 1915, in the District Court of the United States for New Mexico, to condemn lands of the defendants in error for reclamation purposes. 32 Stat. 388. Condemnation proceedings to acquire real estate for Government uses and public purposes under judicial process are regulated by the Act of August 1, 1888, c. 7...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This case is like No. 147, ¡just decided, ante, 163, and was argued and submitted at the same time. In this instance the Government and the landowner appealed from the award of the commissioners, and the case was tried to a jury. Jurors were instructed that the allowance of interest was a mattér of law, and in. a form *171 of verdict given to them, inte...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The appellant, plaintiff below, sets forth in its bill that it is the owner of a system of street railways in the city of Detroit, and suburban lines running from said city. The suit was brought in the District Court, to enjoin the city, of Detroit and the other defendants, municipal officials, from acquiring or constructing a system of street railways, ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. A bill was filed in the. United States District Court for the Western Division of the Western District of Missouri by a shareholder in the Kansas City Title & Trust Company to enjoin the Company, its officers, agents and employees from investing the funds of the Company in farm loan bonds issued by Federal Land Banks or Joint Stock Land Banks under authority of ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The Pesaro an, Italian steamship which carried a shipment of .olive oil from Genoa to New York, was sued in rem *217 in admiralty in the District Court to enforce a claim for damage to that part of her cargo, the libel alleging that she was a “general ship engaged in the common carriage of merchandise by water, for hire.” The usual process issued and th...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This case is much like that of The Pesaro, ante, 216. The only difference requiring notice is that the appeal in that case was to this court while in this it was to the Circuit Court of Appeals, which rendered a decree of affirmance. 259 Fed. Rep. 369. A writ of certiorari brings that decree here for review. 250 U. S. 656. The question ra...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit by Edwards to have Bodkin declared a trustee for him of the title to a quarter section of land in California. While the land was public and subject to entry. under the homestead law, Edwards, a qualified applicant, made a homestead entry of it and afterwards submitted final proofs in due course. Bodkin instituted a contest against the entry and...
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delivered, the opinion of the cpurt. This is an appeal from an order denying a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The petitioner was indicted under *225 § 169 of the Criminal Code, which declares that “whoever, without lawful authority, shall have in his possession” any die in the likeness or similitude of a die designated for making genuine coin of the United St...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit to enjoin the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General Land Office from canceling a selection of indemnity lands under a railroad land grant. The trial court dismissed the bill and the Court of Appeals reversed that decree and directed that an injunction issue. 46 App. D. C. 374. An appeal under § 250, par. 6, of the J...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit to establish a claim to and prevent a sale of 14,900 shares of the capital stock of the Botany Worsted Mills, a New Jersey corporation, which were seized by the Alien Property Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Act as the property of a German corporation called Kammgarnspinnerei Stoehr & Co., Aktiengesellschaft. The plaintiff is a ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This case is a sequel of Allen v. St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Ry. Co., 230 U. S. 553, and Arkadelphia Co. v. *253 St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co., 249 U. S. 134. See also St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Ry. Co. v. McKnight, 244 U. S. 368. The Arkansas Railroad Commissio...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims sustaining a claim for refund of an estate tax exacted under Title II of the Revenue Act of September 8, 1916, as amended by Act of March 3, 1917 (c. 463, 39 Stat. 756, 777; c. 159, 39 Stat. 1000, 1002). It presents the question whether the act taxed a certain interest that passed under testamentar...
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255 U.S. 257 (1921) UNITED STATES v. FIELD, EXECUTOR OF FIELD. No. 442. Supreme Court of United States. Argued December 9, 1920. Decided February 28, 1921. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. *258 The Solicitor General and Mr. Assistant Attorney General Davis, with whom Mr. T.K. Schmuck, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, was on the brief, for the United States. Mr. John P. Wilson, with whom...
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delivered the opinion of the court. Having recovered a judgment upon certain drainage warrants issued under Act No. 30, 1871, James W. Peake of New York instituted a second suit in the United States Circuit Court, Eastern District of Louisiana — May 30, 1891 — against New Orleans, seeking sale of land, which that city held as trustee to secure all such warrants. See Peake v. ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. Claiming equitable title thereto under the homestead laws, appellee’s predecessor, Delany, instituted this proceeding in the United States District Court for Idaho to compel the appellants to hold certain lands, patented to the Railway Company, as trustee for him. The insistence is that patent should not have issued to the Company, notwithstanding the attempt...
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delivered the opinion of the court. Defendants in error, officers and agents of the City and County of San Francisco, purporting to act under an ordinance approved May 8, 1917, gave notice of their intention to demolish and remove a wooden building on Van Ness Avenue, the property of plaintiffs in error. Thereupon the latter instituted this proceeding for an injunction upon the ground, amo...
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255 U.S. 273 (1921) EX PARTE IN THE MATTER OF CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, PETITIONER. No. 24, Original. Supreme Court of United States. Argued December 13, 1920. Decided February 28, 1921. ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF PROHIBITION AND/OR WRIT OF MANDAMUS. *274 Mr. Lawrence Maxwell and Mr. William L. Day, with whom Mr. Joseph S. Graydon was on the briefs, for petitioner. Mr. Thur...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, commonly called the Rock Island, filed in this court a petition in which it allegéd that the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio, Western Division, was undertaking to proceed against it personally in a suit therein pending; that the Rock Island had not voluntarily become a part...
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delivered the opinion of the court. In 1872 the Texas and Pacific Railway Company built its single track main line to the west on a street in the village of Dallas, then as now called Pacific Avenue. In 1890 the City granted to the Company a fifty-year franchise to double track its railroad on that street. In the latter year the population of Dallas was 35,057; now it is 158, 976; 1 ...
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delivered the opinion of the' court. On March 12,1920, the Legislature of Kentucky passed and the Governor approved an act-which imposed upon every person engaged in the business of manufacturing whisky or “in the business of owning,and storing ” the same in bonded warehouses within the State what was called an “annual license tax” of fifty cents a gañón upon all whisky either withdrawn fr...
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delivered the opinion of the court. In a joint indictment the plaintiff in error, Gouled, one Vaughan, an officer of the United States Army, and a third, an attorney at law, were charged, in the first count, with being parties to a conspiracy to defraud the United States, in violation of § 37 of the Federal Criminal Code, and, in the second count, with having used the mails to *303 promote a ...
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delivered the opinion of, the court. The plaintiff in error, whom we shall designate 'defendant as he was in the court below, was tried on an indictment containing six counts. He was found not guilty on the-first four counts, but guilty on the fifth, which charged him with having removed whisky on which the revenue tax had not been paid to a place other than a Government warehouse, and als...
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delivered the opinion of the court. On March 10, 1915, S. Ontra & Brother delivered to the .Pacific Mail Steamship Company at Yokohama, Japan, 56 cases of “Drawn work goods and Renaissance,” consigned to their oWn order at New York, and received a bill of lading for ocean transportation to San Francisco and thence by the Southern Pacific Company and its connections, by rail, to destination...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This suit, begun by the United States against the Diamond Coal & Coke Company iii October, 1917, had a threefold object: (1) To cancel 18 patents granted to that number of persons, at dates ranging from 14 to 20 years prior to the commencement of the suit, and covering 2,283 acres of coal land situated in the Evanston Land District, State of Wyoming; (2)...
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delivered the opinion of the court. In Clark Distilling Co. v. Western Maryland Ry. Co., 242 U. S. 311, the Webb-Kenyon Law (Act of March 1, 1913, c. 90, 37 Stat. 699) which prohibited the movement in interstate commerce into any State of intoxicating liquor for purposes prohibited by the laws of such State, was sustained. It was held (a) that the. law in question was appropriate as a regul...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This action brought by appellant is for the recovery of certain balances amounting to the sum of $4,288.01, being the difference between the amounts paid at certain rates for transportation of the effects of Army officers' changing stations and those which it is alleged were legally chargeable. ' . - The Court of Claims adjudged that appellant was n...
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-delivered the opinion of the court. .. -The basic proposition in this case, and most of its subsidiary considerations, are the same as in- No. 134, ante, 339. It was argued at the same time as the latter case,. and, as in that case, it is to recover amounts withheld by the accounting officers of thé Government .as land-grant deductions in settlements for transportation" óf the ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This case is here upon a question of jurisdiction. Jud. Code, § 238. Appellant is a fraternal benefit association organized under the laws of the State of Indiana.. It filed a bill against Aurelia J. Cauble and others, citizens and residents of Indiana, to enjoin them from prosecuting in the state courts certain suits which, it is averred, would relitigate qu...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit by the State of New Mexico to enjoin the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General Land Office from canceling or annulling a lieti land selection of that State under a mistaken conception of their power and duty. A hearing on the bill‘and answer resulted in a decree for the State, which the Court} of Appeals affirmed, 4...
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delivered the opinion of the. court. These are appeals from a judgment of the Court of Claims rejecting claims for alleged services rendered and expenses incurred in the matter of the claims of the Mississippi Choctaws to citizenship in the Choctaw Nation. The decision of the Court of Claims is reported in 51 Ct. Clms. 284. In the Winton case (No. 6), a request for additional findings, equ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. In 1907 the Waters Pierce Oil Company, a Missouri corporation, was indicted in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana under the Elkins Act (February 19, 1903, c. 708, § 2, 32 Stat. 847), for receiving rebates. In 1913 the Company sold- and transferred all its property to the Pierce Oil Corporation; all the proceeds ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. After a hearing on September 22, 1917, by the Third Assistant Postmaster General, of the time and character of which, the relator (plaintiff in error) had due notice and at which it was represented by its president, an order was entered, revoking the second-class mail privilege granted to it in 1911 as publisher of the Milwaukee Leader.. So far as apDears, all t...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This was a pétition to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for a writ of mandamus commanding the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of the General Land Office to pass a homestead entry to patent. A demurrer to the answer was sustained, the defendants elected to stand on the answer, and a judgment awarding the writ was entered. The C...
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delivered the opinion of the court.' The Quong Ham Wah Company is engaged in the business of supplying to canneries in California and else *447 where the labor required by them to carry on their canning operations. The Company in 1918 hired in the city of San Francisco one Owe Ming, a resident of. California, under an agreement that he was to work as its employee at' -the cann...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The petitioner was indicted for a violation of § 215 of the Criminal Code of the United States by a use of the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. This is a felony, § 335, and .therefore, we assume, must be tried by a jury of twelve. The petitioner was tried, convicted and sentenced, the record stating that “to try this cause come a jury of goqd and ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This is a bill in equity brought by private consumers of gas to have two orders of the Public Utilities Commission that increase the rate for gas to private consumers declared void. The first order, Number 254, March 15, 1918, raised the rate from 75 cents per thousand feet to 90 cents. The second, No. 314, March 15,1919, raised it to not exceeding 95 ce...
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255 U.S. 455 (1921) LANG, ADMINISTRATRIX OF LANG, v. NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 290. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 1, 1921. Decided March 28, 1921. CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. *456 Mr. Hamilton Ward, with whom Mr. Julius A. Schrieber and Mr. Irving W. Cole were on the brief, for petitioner. Mr. Maurice C. Spratt for respondent. MR. JUSTICE ...
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delivered the opinion of the -court. Action to recover the sum of $3,600, excessive payment exacted by the Secretary of’the Interior for 120 acres of coal land, which plaintiff (we so designate hinh in this opinion) was entitled to enter and did enter under § 2347 of- the Revised Statutes. The Court of Claims dismissed the petition and from its. judgment this appeal is prosecuted. ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. These cases arise out of a proceeding brought by the United States under the Act of July 27, 1917, c. 42, 40 Stat. 247, for the double purpose of ascertaining the rights of private parties in North Island in the harbor of San Diego, California, and of condemning the whole of said island for public purposes after the value of such rights has been fixed an...
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delivered the opinion of the court.. This is a Suit'by the United States to establish . title in it to eighty acres of land and to the proceeds of oil taken therefrom. The District Court rendered a decree dismissing the bill on the merits, which the Circuit Court of Appeals reversed, 262, Fed. Rep. 675, and the defendants bring the case here. One of the defendants, the State of Wyomin...
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delivered the opinion of the court. A writ of error brings this case here for review of a judgment of the District Court of the United States-for the Northern District of Illinois, sustaining a demurrer to a declaration in assumpsit to recover an assessment of taxes for the year 1917, made under warrant of the Income Tax Act of Congress, approved September 8,1916, c. 463, 39 Stat. 756, as ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. This case comes into this court on a writ of error to review a judgment of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, sustaining a demurrer to a declaration in assumpsit to recover an assessment of income and excess profits taxes for the year 1917, under warrant of the Income Tax Act of Congress, approved September 8, ...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The plaintiff in error sued the defendant, a collector of Internal Revenue, to recover income taxes assessed in 1920 for the year 1916 and paid under protest to avoid penalties. A demurrer to the complaint was sustained and the constitutional validity of a law of the United States is so involved, that the case is properly here by writ of error. Tow...
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delivered the opinion of the court. In this case the defendant in error sued the plaintiff in error, a collector of Internal Revenue, to recover income 'taxes for the year 1916, assessed in 1918, and which were paid under protest to avoid penalties. The defendant answered,- the case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, and judgment was rendered in favor of the taxpayer, the defenda...
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delivered the opinion of the court. At the time these suits were begun the appellants were engaged in supplying electricity or gas to the municipal corporations who are the appellees. This service w'as being rendered by virtue of ordinances conferring franchises to use the city streets during 25 years in two of the cases and 20 years in the other. The ordinances contained a schedule, of ma...
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delivered the opinion of the court. The decree below enjoined the City of San Antonio from enforcing a five cents fare against the Public Service Company, operating street railway lines in that city, on the grpund that the right to enforce such rate was not secured to the city by contract and such enforcement was beyond the power of the city because of the confiscation of the property of t...
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 726....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 726....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction: (1) Act of September 6,1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 726. (2) Goodrich v. Ferris, 214 U. S. 71, 79; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, *560583; United Surety Co. v. American Fruit Co., 238 U. S. 140, 142; Sugarman v. United States, 249 U. S. 182, 184; Berkman v. United States, 250 U. S. 114, 118; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193. Mr. Don A. Bli...
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) Ex parte Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade, 222 U. S. 578, 581. (2) Farrell v. O'Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Goodrich v. Ferris, 214 U. S. 71, 79; Brolan v. United States, 236 U. S. 216, 218; Sugarman v. United States, 249 U. S. 182, 184....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of the Act of September 6,1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 726....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of § 237, of the Judicial *562Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726. Mr. John S. Barbour for plaintiffs in error. Mr. John R. Saunders and Mr. J. D. Hank, Jr., for defendants in error....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of California Powder Works v. Davis, 151 U. S. 389, 393; Cuyahoga River Power Co. v. Northern Realty Co., 244 U. S. 300, 303; Bilby v. Stewart, 246 U. S. 255, 257; Farson, Son & Co. v. Bird, 248 U. S. 268, 271....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580,582; United Surety Co. v. American Fruit Co., 238 U. S. 140, 142; Sugarman v. United States, 249 U. S. 182, 184....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) Hull v. Burr, 234 U. S. 712, 720; St. Anthony Church v. Pennsylvania R. R. Co., 237 U. S. 575, 577; Delaware, Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co. v. Yurkonis, 238 U. S. 439, 444. (2) Spencer v. Duplan Silk Co., 191 U. S. 526, 530; Devine v. Los Angeles, 202 U. S. 313, 333; Shulthis v. McDougal, 225 U. S. 561, 569; Merriam Co. v. Syndicate Pu...
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction on authority of: (1) Section 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6,1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726. (2) Union Dry Goods Co. v. Georgia Public Service Corporation, 248 U. S. 372. (3) Hunter v. Pittsburgh, 207 U. S. 161, 178; Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Co., 250 U. S. 394, 397....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6,1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of. § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6,1916, C. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726....
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Motion for leave to file petition in contempt herein deified....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6,1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726....
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Motion to dismiss the petition for writ of certiorari in this case for want of prosecution granted....
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Motion for leave to file petition for a writ of certiorari herein denied....
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Affirmed with costs, upon the authority of St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co. v. Alexander, 227 U. S. 218....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6,1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726....
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Reversed with costs and cause remanded for further proceedings, upon the authority of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co. v. Warren-Godwin Lumber Co., 251 U. S. 27; Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Boegli, 251 U. S. 315....
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Petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) United States v. Boutwell, 17 Wall. 604, 607; Pullman Co. v. Knott, 243 U. S. 447, 449; Shaffer v. Howard, 249 U. S. 200, 201. (2) Act of February 8, 1899, c. 121, 30 Stat. 822; LeCrone v. McAdoo, 253 U. S. 217, 219....
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Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of §237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726....
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