Court Cases Court Cases

  Most Popular Cases Tab Overlap Cases with Faces Tab Overlap Cases by Type Tab Overlap Cases by Reporter Tab Overlap Cases by Year Right End

All Reporters → us-lexis → Volume 1922

Opinions in us-lexis Volume 1922

delivered the opinion of tñe court. Indictment against Hawes under the law of Georgia for the offense of knowingly permitting certain persons to locate and have on his premises apparatus for distilling and manufacturing prohibited liquors and beverages. A verdict of guilty was rendered. A motion for new trial was made and denied, which action and the judgment of the trial court were a...
Views: 10
delivered. the opinion of the court. This is an action to recover damages for a breach of contract growing out of an alleged misrepresentation. The appellant essayed recovery upon a petition to which a demurrer was sustained; it then filed an amended petition which was subjected to a like disposition, and then a second amended petition. Demurrer by the Government being sustained to th...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the court. Plaintiff in error, herein called the Telegraph Company, brought this proceeding to condemn an easement upon the right of way of defendant in error, herein called the Railroad Company, in exercise of a right conferred by a Kentucky statute of 1898 (Ky. Stats., § 4679c). 1 *15 The purpose is to condemn as a, right under the sanction ...
Views: 12
delivered the opinion of the court. ' This is an action for personal injuries caused by a collision on the defendant’s road. The plaintiff, the petitioner, shipped some cattle from Bancroft in Idaho to Omaha in Nebraska and got a drover’s pass to go with them as caretaker, free from charge other than that made for carrying the cattle. In consideration of the pass the plaintiff agreed that ...
Views: 9
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a claim for $5,020.65 as the claimant’s proportion of joint through express rates for carrying $5,000,000 in gold from Philadelphia to Boston, and the passenger fares for seven men who accompanied the gold as guards from New York to Springfield, Massachusetts, that being the distance that the claimant carried the gold. The Court of Claims ordered...
Views: 2
delivered the opinion of the court. These are suits by foreign corporations to recover taxes alleged to have been paid to the defendant, the Treasurer of Massachusetts, under duress, and in obedience to statutes held by this Court to be unconstitutional in International Paper Co. v. Massachusetts, 246 U. S. 135, and *37 Locomobile Co. v. Mass...
Views: 8
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit like the two just decided, ante, 34, .to recover .taxes paid under the Act of 1909 there mentioned and St. 1918, c. 253. In this case as in the other the statutes provided a remedy that excluded an action against the Treasurer at common law. St. 1909, c. 490, Pt. 111, § 70. St. 1918, c. 253, § 4. St. 1918, c. 255, § 7. . The District Court ga...
Views: 1
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit brought by the United States to recover the value of lands that it alleges it was induced to part with through the defendant’s fraud. The lands concerned had been in the Siletz Indian Reservation in Oregon and had been thrown open to homestead entry by the Act of August 15, 1894, c. 290, § 15, 28 Stat. 286, 326. In addition to the usual fe...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the court. This suit was brought.by the complainant,-a-cooperative association incorporated under the laws of North Dakota, and engaged in the business of operating a public elevator and warehouse for the purchase, sale, distribution and storage of wheat,, oats, rye, barley, seeds and flax at the village of Embden in that State. The association retains no profit. I...
Views: 13
delivered the opinion of the court. This suit was brought by companies representing 692 elevators in the State of North Dakota to enjoin the enforcement of the North Dakota Grain Grading and Inspection Act, c. 138 of the Laws of North Dakota of 1919. This act was considered and passed upon in No. 456, just decided, ante, 50. The matter was heard before three judges, and a temporary injuncti...
Views: 3
delivered the opinion of the court. Appellant, a citizen of the State of New York and a resident of the southern district thereof, brought this suit *70 in the District Court of the United States against the a,ppellee,. a citizen of the State of Mississippi, residing in the City of Clarksdale, County of Coahoma in that State. Appellant is the daughter of Ephraim' H. and Eva W. Lombard, appell...
Views: 1
delivered the opinion of the court. Plaintiff in error, as receiver of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company, brought suit against J. C. Famechon Company, in the Municipal Court of the City of Minneapolis, to recover for charges for rental of re *79 frigerator cars used in shipping potatoes in 1914 and 1915 from' various points in Minnesota over connecting lines to poin...
Views: 7
delivered the opinion of the court. In October, 1913, Frederic E. Baldwin, a'citizen of New York, together with the present petitioner John Simmons Company, a corporation and citizen of that State, brought suit in the United States District Court for the. Western District of Pennsylvania against The Grier Brothers Company, a corporation and citizen of the latter .State, charging infringeme...
Views: 15
delivered the opinion of the court. The petitioner brought an action in the Court of Common Pleas at Philadelphia, alleged that her husband was negligently killed while employed in interstate commerce by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad and- demanded damages. She claimed under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act. Verdict and judgment having been entered for her, an appeal was taken to ...
Views: 18
delivered.the opinion of the court. Claiming a lien under Act of Congress approved June 23, 1910, c. 373, 36 Stat. 604, 1 and seeking to recover for work done and supplies furnished in pursuance of a contract with the owner of the “ Jack-O-Lantern,” appellant libeled the vessel. The libel was dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. If the agreement between the parties is maritime th...
Views: 4
delivered the opinion of the court. In the court below appellants’ bill was dismissed upon demurrer. It attacks the validity of § 27, Merchant Marine Act of June 5, 1920, c. 250, 41 Stat. 988, 1 upon the ground that the'regulation of commerce prescribed therein gives a preference to ports of the Pacific Coast States over those of Alaska, contrary to § 9, Art. I, Federal Constitu...
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the court. These cases were argued and submitted together. They involve the same questions of law and the essential facts are the same in each. Reference will, therefore, be made only to No. 76. The First National Bank of Rome, Georgia, endorsee of five certificates of deposit made by the Bank of Jasper, a Florida corporation, sued the maker at law in the fede...
Views: 13
delivered the opinion of the court. • The Philadelphia Steam Heating Company made a contract with the United States, approved April 5, 1897, .to furnish and install the boiler plant, heating system and other apparatus for the post-office building at Washington then under construction. The price fixed was $111,373; the time for completion 250 working days; with a forfeiture of $100 a day fo...
Views: 1
delivered the opinion of the court. The Keokuk & Hamilton Bridge Company, an Illinois corporation, owns a bridge across the Mississippi River. That part of it which lies within the State of Illinois was assessed by the county assessors for purposes of taxation as real estate and was valued at $100,000.. To prevent collection of the tax the company brought, in the federal court f...
Views: 8
delivered the opinion of the court. On July 7, 1920, Charles S. Fairchild of New York brought this suit in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia against the Secretary, of State and the Attorney General. The prayers of the bill are that “ the so-called Suffrage Amendment [the Nineteenth to the Federal Constitution] be declared unconstitutional and void ”; that the Secretary of State be...
Views: 31
delivered the opinion of the court. On October 12, 1920, Cecilia Streett Waters and Mary D. Randolph, citizens of Maryland, applied for and were granted registration as qualified voters in Baltimore City. To have their names stricken from the list Oscar Leser and others brought this suit in the court of Common Pleas. The only ground of disqualification alleged was that the applicants for regist...
Views: 11
delivered the opinion of the court. The appellant, doing business in the name of “ Organo Product Company, ” in his bill prayed for an injunction restraining the Postmaster at Chicago from giving effect to a “ fraud order ” against him, issued by the Postmaster General on August 15, 1919, pursuant to authority of Rev. Stats., § 3929 and § 4041. The order was in the usual form, prohibiting ...
Views: 14
delivered the opinion of the court. Pursuant to authority of an act of the legislature of the. State, the City of New York, in 1890, began the construction of an elevated viaduct in 155th Street, which was completed in-1893. Before and during the construction of the viaduct George W. Sauer, the intestate of the plaintiff in error, was the owner of property fronting upon the part of the str...
Views: 16
The State of Minnesota having made a motion before the court for a final decree, confirming the report of the Commissioners appointed by the decree in this cause on the 11th day of October, A. D. 1920, to run, locate and designate the boundary line between the State of Minnesota and the State of Wisconsin, in and through Lower Saint Louis Bay, Upper Saint Louis Bay and the Saint Louis River, fr...
Views: 4
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a bill in equity brought in this court by the State of Texas against the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Railroad Labor Board. The relief sought is, first, a declaration that the main provisions 1 of Titles III and IV of the Transportation Act of 1920, c. 91, 41 Stat. 456, 469, 474. are unconstitutional and void, *160 ...
Views: 11
delivered the opinion of the court. The Consolidated Gas Company was organized in 1884 by consolidation of six corporations then manufacturing, distributing and selling gas in New York City and has continued to carry on the business, making additions and extensions as required by the increasing demand. Chapter 125 Laws of New York. 1906 required it .to sell gas with illuminating power of t...
Views: 17
delivered the opinion of the court. . This appeal brings up for review a final decree entered November 19, 1920, which adjudged that in so far as c. 125, Laws of New York of 1906, prohibited appellee from charging and receiving more than $1.00 per thousand/ cubic feet for gas delivered, and sold in the Third Ward, Borough of Queens, New York City, it was and had been confiscatory since Jan...
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the court. This is an appeal from' a final decree entered October 19, 1920, which enjoined the enforcement of c. 125, Laws of New York of 1906, ahd also the Act of New York Legislature approved May 9, 1916, c. 604, Laws of 1916. 268 Fed. 143. The first of these statutes fixed the price which appellee might charge for gas distributed in New York City at $1.00 per thousan...
Views: 14
delivered the opinion of the court. These are two.writs of error to the Supreme Court of Kansas sued out (§ 237, Judicial Code) with the hope and purpose of testing the validity, under the Federal Consti *183 tution, of the act of the Legislature of Kansas creating a Court of Industrial Relations. C. 29, Special Session, Laws of Kansas of 1920. In No. 154, the plaintiffs ...
Views: 16
delivered the opinion of the court. Suit by the Atchafalaya Land Company to have declared-nuil and void certain patents issued by the Register of the State Land Office of Louisiana to a partnership composed of John N. Pharr and Frank B. Williams, of which the F. B. Williams .Cypress Company became grantee May 23, 1903; and that the lands of the patents be adjudged to have been included in the g...
Views: 11
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a controversy between the appellant, Levinson, and Johnson, one of the appellees, as to which of the two is entitled to the steam yacht Wadena. The yacht had been taken for the purposes of the late war and subsequently was offered for public sale by the Secretary of the Navy in pursuance of an Executive Order of January 7, *2001919, authorized by the Act...
Views: 0
delivered thé opinion of the court. By § 402 of the Transportation Act of 1920, c. 91, 41 ¡3tat. 456, 477, several new paragraphs were added, to § 1 of the Act to Regulate Commerce as theretofore amended. Paragraphs 18,19 and 20 are copied in the margin. 1 By *213 them Congress has undertaken to regulate the construe-, tion and acquisition of new or additional lines...
Views: 18
delivered the opinion of the court. - .The appellant Irwin, a citizen of California, filed his .bill of complaint in the District Court against the Treasurer, the Assessor, the Attorney, the Sheriff, and the members-of the Board of Supervisors, of. Maricopa County, Arizona, citizens of Arizona. -He‘averred that-he had an interest, as a homestead entryman, under the General Homestead Act of...
Views: 18
delivered the opinion of the court. Error to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma sustaining an order of the Corporation Commission of the State directing, on'account of the failure of the Gas Companies to furnish adequate gas service, a rer fund in certain districts of Oklahoma City of from eight to. twenty-five per cent, of the bills-rendered by the companies during December, 19...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit against, the petitioner upon a written guaranty of payment' to the respondent of $2,363.50 for goods sold to the Kaiser Company. The plaintiff, (the respondent,) had a verdict and judgment and the judgment was affirmed by the Supreme Court of the State. Th.e case comes here' on the question of th.e liability of the bank, upon the facts that we ...
Views: 4
delivered the opinion of the .court. These two cases were argued and will be disposed of together. A motion to dismiss or affirm was filed in each case, on. the ground that each is ruled by the decision in Marcus Brown Holding Co. v. Feldman, 256 U. S. 170, and both were postponed to the hearing on the merits. The essential question presented for decision in...
Views: 27
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a writ of error to the District Court under the Criminal Appeals Act of March 2, 1907, c. 2564, 34 Stat. 1246. Defendants in error were indicted for a violation of the Narcotic Act of December 17, 1914, c. 1, 38'Stat. 785. The indictment charged them with unlawfully selling to another a certain amount of a derivative of opium and a certain amount...
Views: 29
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court. We live in the jurisdiction of two sovereignties, each-having its own system of courts to declare and enforce its laws in common territory. It would be impossible for such courts to fulfil their respective functions without embarrassing conflict unless rules were adopted by them to avoid it. The people for whose benefit t...
Views: 26
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a.libel brought by the respondent to recover $219 for wages, subsistence and medical attendance, the libellant having been left at Honolulu, ill, in the course of a voyage from San Francisco to the Orient and return. The defence is that he was not ill, that ill or well he should have, remained upon the vessel, and further that he was discharged, and s...
Views: 12
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit brought by the respondents against the petitioner to recover for the death of two children, sons of the respondents. The facts that for the purposes of decision we shall assume to have been proved are these. The petitioner owned a tract of about twenty acres in the outskirts of the town of Iola, Kansas. Formerly it had there a plant, for t...
Views: 17
delivered the opinion of the court.. This case is here under the Criminal Appeals Act, 34 Stat. 1246. The statute involved is the Narcotic Drug Act of December 17, 1914, c. 1, § 2, a, 38 Stat. 785, 786. This statute in § 2, subdivision a, makes it an offense to sell, barter, exchange, or give away any of the narcotic drugs named in the act except in pursuance of a written order of the person ...
Views: 15
delivered the opinion of the court. In 1918 the defendant in error, as Secretary of State, assessed a tax of $6,045 upon the plaintiff in error, a cor-’ poration organized under the laws of West Virginia, for the privilege of doing business in the State of Illinois. The tax was .paid under protest and this suit was instituted to recover the amount of it, based upon the contention that the ...
Views: 7
delivered the opinion of the court. - Counsel for the appellant object to the presumption we indulge in our opinion.in this case that.the Senate must have .known of the dismissal of Wallace when it confirmed the' nomination of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Smith,. whose appointment and confirmation filled the place considered vacant by Wallace’s dismissal. They insist that the absence of knowledge ...
Views: 1
delivered the opinion of the court. These are two prosecutions for criminal libel brought against the same defendant, Jesus M. Balzac, on informations filed in the District Court for Arecibo, Porto Rico, by the District Attorney for that District. Balzac was the ■editor of a daily paper published in Arecibo, known as “ El Baluarte ”, and the articles upon which the charges of libel were based w...
Views: 18
delivered the opinion of the court. By a bill filed in the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon, appellant asserted a dower right in one-half part of certain land in possession of the Railway Company. The bill was dismissed on motion of the Railway Company and the Company was awarded judgment for costs. On appeal by the complainant in the suit, the judgment was affir...
Views: 16
delivered the opinion ot the court. Suit by the Steel Company to recover royalties for the use by the United States of a patented invention owned by the Company. . On November 7, 1891, the United States by and through the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department contracted with the Bethlehem Iron Company for the manufacture of 100 guns of 8-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch calibre, which were to be equ...
Views: 1
delivered the opinion of the court. The Water Works Company is a corporation of New Mexico and was incorporated to furnish the City of Raton with water. Its system is constituted of pipes, mains, conduits, sources of water, reservoir sites, and • reservoirs. *331 (These accessories are to be understood when we úse the word “ system.”) The Bankers Trust Company,...
Views: 3
delivered the-opinion of the court. This is a suit, begun in 1917, to recover tolls unlawfully collected from the plaintiff, the plaintiff in error, for passage through the lock of a canal. The Supreme-Court of Florida sustained the declaration, 77 Fla. 742, but on the day of the decision the Legislature passed an act, c. 7865, Acts of 1919, that purported to validate the collection. The a...
Views: 12
delivered the opinion of the court. On December 13, 1916, the' steamer Bay Port, while passing through the Cape Cod Canal, ran ashore on the south bank and the next day sank diagonally across it. In January; 1917, the Canal Company filed a libel against' the White Oak Transportation Company, the owner of the steamer, to recover for damages suffered by the canal and the obstruction of traff...
Views: 7
delivered the opinion of the court. Petitioner brought suit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to restrain the respondent from violating a certain contract concerning the sale of patterns for garments worn by women and children, called Standard Patterns. The bill was dismissed by the District Court and its decree was affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appea...
Views: 14
delivered the opinion of the court. The appellee William R. Kane, a citizen and resident of New Jersey, having in the year 1917 commenced in the Supreme Court of that State an action at law against appellant, a corporation of Illinois, seeking recovery of $20,000 damages for conversion of certain personal property, and having sought ' to acquire jurisdiction over defendant in persona...
Views: 10
delivered the opinion of the court. Petitioner is a national bank located at Gulfport, Harrison County, Mississippi. The State Revenue Agent instructed the Tax Collector for that County as follows: “ The following described property, in said County, to-wit: Capital Stock, surplus, undivided profits, and any and all other property properly assessable to banks, amounting to $75,150, .belonging ...
Views: 10
delivered the opinion of the court. Asking instruction as provided by § 239, Judicial Code, the Circuit.Court of Appeals f...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the court. The respondent Produce Company recovered a judgment against petitioner, the delivering carrier, .for damages to two carloads of apples transported during November, 1914, upon through bills of lading oyer connecting lines from points in New York State to one in Nebraska. The evidence tended to show that the apples were in good condition when received, by ...
Views: 7
delivered the. opinion of the court. Most of the congressional land-grant acts provide, that - railroads so aided shall be “ free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.” Two of the lines of. railroad forming part of the Louisville and Nashville system were built with the aid of such, grants. For all transportation to which that' pr...
Views: 3
delivered the opinion of the court. The distribution of coal cars in times of car shortage has been a fertile field of controversy.. The subject has received much attention from Congress, the Interstate Commerce Commission and the courts.. Definite rules for distribution were promulgated by the Commission; and they remained in force for-many years, Among these *379 was the so-...
Views: 16
delivered the opinion of the court. This action was brought in the federal court for Western Pennsylvania against the Collector of Internal Revenue to recover part, of an amount assessed' as estate tax under the Act of September 8, 1916, c. 463, Title II, 39 Stat. 756, 777, and paid by the plaintiff as executrix of the estate of Kate B. Kingsley. In determining the -net value of the estate...
Views: 14
delivered the opinion- of the court. The street, railway system of Galveston was started as a horse-car line in 1881. It was electrified about 1890; and after the hurricane of 1900 was largely’ rebuilt. Upon sale on foreclosure the railway passed in 1901 to a new .company; and in 1905 it was purchased by the Galveston Electric Company which supplies to the inhabitants of that city also ele...
Views: 23
delivered the opinion of the court. In the. Court of Quarter Sessions of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, Vigliotti was found guilty of selling, during the spring of 1920, spirituous liquor without a license, in violation of § 15 of the Act of May 13, 1887, P. L. 108, known as the Brooks Law. The liquor so sold was a preparation called Jamaica Ginger containing 88 per cent, of alcohol. The defenda...
Views: 16
delivered the opinion of the court. The respondent shipped two carloads of horses from Grand 'Island, Nebraska, to Spokane, Washington, for which the initial carrier, the Union Pacific Railroad Company, issued a through bill of lading, in the form of . the customary livestock contract, and routed the shipment over its own lines to Granger, Wyoming, thence over the line of the Oregon Short ...
Views: 6
delivered the opinion of the court. In February, 1920, Roy Marshall, a private in the United States Army, -serving at Vladivostok, Siberia, was tried for robbery by a court martial there convened, was found guilty and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at McNeil’s Island. Five months later, when Marshall was at the Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island, awaiting transportati...
Views: 18
delivered the opinion of the court. The petitioner, a railway mail clerk in the employ of the United States, was injured on May 29, 19.18, when the car in which he was working was wrecked on the line of the Illinois Central Railroad, then being operated by the Director General of Railroads under the Federal Control Act of March 21, 1918, c. 25, 40 Stat. 451. He brought this suit to recover-for ...
Views: 9
delivered the opinion of the court. The question in the case is what procedure, in the prosecution and conviction for crime, the Fifth Amendment- of the Constitution of the United States makes dependent upon the character of punishment assigned-to the crime. The Amendment provides that “ no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or i...
Views: 23
delivered the opinion of the court. This suit was brought by-the United States against the defendants, United.Shoe Machinery Company (of Maine), United Shoe Machinery Corporation, United Shoe Machinery Company (of New Jersey), -and the officers and directors of these corporations, under the provisions of the Clayton Act. of October 15, 1914, c. 323, 38 Stat. 731, 736, to enjoin them from m...
Views: 18
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit in equity by appellant, a corporation and citizen of Texas, against appellees, both individually and as officers of Georgia, to restrain enforcement of laws respecting fees for inspection of petroleum and petroleum-products, especially kerosene oil and gasoline, so far as concerns products brought by plaintiff from other States into Georgi...
Views: 19
delivered the opinion of the court. . The Winsted Hosiery Company has for many years manufactured underwear which it sells to ■ retailers throughout the United States. It brands or labels the cartons in which the underwear is sold, as “'Natural Merino “ Gray Wool ”, “ Natural Wool ”, “ Natural Worsted ”, or “Australian Wool ”. None of this underwear is all. wool. ' Much of it contains only...
Views: 12
after making the foregoing statement of the case, delivered the opinion of the court. Section 316 of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 makes applicable to suits for injunction against the orders of the Secretary of Agriculture, the same procedure, original and appellate, provided in the Act of October 22, 1913, c. 32, 38 Stat. 208, 219, 220, for suits for injunction against the orders...
Views: 26
delivered the -opinion of the court. Augusta Dickel by a deed dated April 21, 1915, assigned and delivered to the Detroit Trust Company, stocks, bonds or securities of the declared value of $1,000,000— with all their unmatured coupons, and the proceeds to be derived therefrom, both principal and income, in trust to invest and reinvest and to pay the net income for life to. *532 Victor E. Shwa...
Views: 17
delivered the opinion of the court* This case was argued at the same time and submitted with No. 200, Shwab v. Doyle, just decided, ante, 529. It involves,'as that, case did, the Estate Tax .Act of September 8,1916, 39 Stat. 777, and its different facts illustrate -pnd aid the principle upon which that case was decided. Plaintiffs in error are executor...
Views: 8
delivered the opinion of the court. The case was determined in the court below upon demurrer to the complaint. The complainant alleged that on the 19th day of December, 1902, and for sometime prior thereto, Henriette Levy was the owner of 22,014 shares of the capital stock of the Levy Estate Company, a corporation. On that date she convened to the plaintiffs Harriet L. Levy, Pauline Jacobs and ...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the court. This case involves the same-principles and contentions passed on in Nos. 200, 236 and 303, ante, 529, 537, 542. It, as they, is an action to recover a tax ($11,819.74) assessed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue as an additional estate tax on the estate of Jonas B. Kisfem, deceased, under the Act of September 8, 1916, as amended in 1917.' The action ...
Views: 4
delivered the opinion of the court. These cases present in different ways the question of the standing of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation in the Courts — the first two,whether it so far embodies the United States that these suits should have been brought in the Court of Claims; the third whether it is entitled to a preference against a bankrupt which it is asse...
Views: 12
delivered the opinion of the court. This suit in equity was brought in this court by the State of Oklahoma against the State of Texas to settle a controversy between them over their common boundary along the course of the Red River and over the title to the southerly half of the river bed: The State of Texas answered'the bill iand joined in the prayer that the controversy be decided. Short...
Views: 18
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. § 237, Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. § 237, Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6....
Views: 2
Affirmed with costs, upon the authority of the New York Gas Cases, ante, 165, 178, 180....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Hunter v. Pittsburgh, 207 U. S. 161, 178; Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Co., 250 U. S. 394, 397; Kansas City v. Public Service Commission of Missouri, 250 U. S. 652; Hillsboro v. Public Service Commission of Oregon; point (3), 255 U. S. 562; Groesbeck v. Detroit United Railway, 257 U. S. 609; Chicago v. Chicago Railways Co., 257 U. S. 617; Avon v...
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195....
Views: 2
Affirmed upon the authority of Tyler Co. v. Ludlow-Saylor Wire Co., 236 U. S. 723; Chicago Car Heating Co. v. Gold Car *606Heating & Lighting Co., 245 U. S. 631. Mr. Edwin B. H. Tower, Jr., with whom Mr. Melville Church, and Mr. Wylie C. Margeson were on the brief, for appellant. Mr. Otto R. Barnett for appellee....
Views: 0
Motion of the State of Arkansas for leave to file petition in intervention in this cause denied....
Views: 4
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Lau Ow Bew v. United States, 144 U. S. 47, 58; Horn v. Mitchell, 243 U. S. 247, 249....
Views: 4
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon.the authority of: (1) Schlosser v. Hemphill, 198 U. S. 173, 175; Louisiana Navigation Co. v. Oyster Commission of Louisiana, 226 U. S. 99, 101; Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works, 237 U. S. 413, 418, 419; Bruce v. Tobin, 245 U. S. 18, 19. (2) § 237, Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Brown, 187 U. S. 308, 314; Consolidated Turnpike Co. v. Norfolk, &c. Ry. Co., 228 U. S. 596, 600; Pennsylvania Hospital v. Philadelphia, 245 U. S. 20, 24. (2) Crane v. Campbell, 245 U. S. 304....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195. (2) Gaar, Scott & Co. v. Shannon, 223 U. S. 468 470; Cuyahoga River Power Co. v. *608Northern Realty Co., 244 U. S. 300, 303; Bilby v. Stewart, 246 U. S. 255, 257; Farson, Son & Co. v. Bird, 248 ...
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6....
Views: 2
Dismissed upon the authority of Hunter v. Pittsburgh, 207 U. S. 161, 178; Pawhuska v. Pawhuska Oil Co., 250 U. S. 394; Kansas City v. Public Service Commission of Missouri, 250 U. S. 652; Hillsboro v. Public Service Commission of Oregon, point (3), 255 U. S. 562; Groesbeck v. Detroit United Railway, 257 U. S. 609; Chicago v. Chicago Railways Co., 257 U. S. 617; Avon v. Detroit United Railway, 257 ...
Views: 0
Decree affirmed with costs, and cause remanded to the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon, per stipulation of counsel that this case abide decision in case No. 177, ante, 314....
Views: 2
Affirmed upon the authority of Union Dry Goods Co. v. Georgia Public Service Corporation, 248 U. S. 372, 375-376; Producers Transportation Co. v. Railroad Commission of California, 251 U. S. 228, 232....
Views: 0
Affirmed upon the authority of Lane v. Mickadiet, 241 U. S. 201....
Views: 0
Judgment affirmed with costs. Mr. John E. Dolman for plaintiff in error....
Views: 0
Decree affirmed with costs; and cause remanded to the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Brolan v. United States, 236 U. S. 216, 217-218; Sugarman v. United States, 249 U. S. 182, 185. See Samad v. Behrandt, 257 U. S. 613....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. § 237, Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6....
Views: 0
Motions for leave to file declarations herein denied, without prejudice to filing of motions for leave to file bills in equity for the same purpose....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Act of February 8, 1899, c. 121, 30 Stat. 822; LeCrone v. McAdoo, 253 U. S. 217, 219....
Views: 5
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6....
Views: 0
Affirmed upon authority of Vigliotti v. Pennsylvania, ante, 403....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority, of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195. See Williams v. Scudder, ante, 607....
Views: 0
1. On consideration of the defendants’ petition for a rehearing heretofore presented by leave of the court, it is considered, ordered and decreed that the decree entered herein on June 5, 1922, be modified to read as follows: This cause-.having been heretofore submitted on the pleadings and the evidence taken before and reported by the commissioners appointed for the purpose, and the Court bein...
Views: 9
delivered the opinion of the Court. The question in this case is whether the Income Tax Law of September 8, 1916, c. 463, 39 Stat. 756, as amended by the Act of October 3, 1917, c. 63, 40 Stat. 300, requires the Contributors to the Pennsylvania Hospital, a' corporation of Pennsylvania, created for charitable uses and purposes, no.part of whose net income is for the benefit of any private stockh...
Views: 7
delivered the opinion of the Court. Bill in equity to declare..illegal the creation of a special road and bridge . district, designated as the Charlotte Harbor Special Road and Bridge District, in De Soto County, Florida, and to restrain the defendants in error, as and constituting the Board of County Commissioners, from paying out any funds in settlement of any supposed obligations contra...
Views: 17
delivered the ' opinion of the Court. In Massachusetts taxes of a kind that used to be imposed by the cities and towns now are imposed and collected by the Commonwealth and afterwards distributed to the cities and towns to be expended for various public purposes. In this way are collected and distributed, with necessary exceptions, taxes upon the interest from debts, dividends from stock and fr...
Views: 19
delivered the opinion of the Court. The Southern Railway includes a line in North Carolina which is held under a. ninety-nine year lease. On that line an employee was killed in March, 1919 — apparently while engaged in intrastate commerce. His admin-istratrix brought, in a court of the State, this action for damages, alleging that the line was then being operated *17 by the Southern as lessee...
Views: 6
delivered the opinion of the Court. Error to review the action of the District Court m dismissing an indictment against defendant in error. The indictment was in two counts. The first count charged that Wong Sing feloniously had in his possession- and under his control, at a specified date, certain derivatives and preparations of morphine and cocaine for the purpose of sale and distribution, he...
Views: 24
delivered the opinion of the Court. The plaintiff in error,. the original plaintiff, owned a theatre building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a wall of which went to the edge of his line. ' Proceeding under a statute of Pennsylvania, the defendant, owner of the adjoining land, began to build a party wall, intending to incorporate the plaintiff’s wall. . The city-authorities decided that the l...
Views: 18
delivered the opinion of the Court. In March, 1919, the Waste Merchants Association of New York filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission a complaint under § 13 of the Act to Regulate Com.merce, February 4, 1887, c. 104, 24 Stat. 379, 384, as amended. It alleged that existing .tariffs on paper stock shipped in carload lots from New York Harbor imposed upon carriers the duty of loading ...
Views: 8
delivered the opinion of the Court. In this case, the constitutional validity of two statutes of Nebraska is questioned, the first subjecting the initial railroad of two connecting roads, receiving freight, to liability for safe delivery by the other, and the second making every common carrier liable for a reasonable attorney’s fee in the court of first instance and on appeal, for collecti...
Views: 19
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the Court. The appellees urge that the concession of the appellant that contracts in respect to the rates to be charged by a public utility are subject to suspension or abrogation by the police power of the State validly exercised through an administrative agency takes out of this case any federal question, because the issue then is...
Views: 21
260 U.S. 60 (1922) FREUND ET AL. v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. FREUND ET AL. Nos. 29, 37. Supreme Court of United States. Argued October 5, 6, 1922. Decided November 13, 1922. APPEALS FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS. *61 Mr. William R. Harr, with whom Mr. Charles H. Bates was on the brief, for Freund et al. Mr. A.A. Wheat, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. William C. Herron were on the b...
Views: 2
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a suit against the Government to recover $34,012.90 as the remainder unpaid of an amount earned by 16 months’ service in carrying the mails by wagons in the City of St. Louis. After official advertisement, a bid was made by appellants April 4,. 1911, and accepted April 20, 1911, for service on a particular route described by a schedule, for a certain ann...
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of North Dakota, brought to reverse its judgment affirming one of the District Court of William County of that State for $1,254.25, with interest and'costs, upon a contract of hail insurance, against the National Union Fire Insurance Company, a corporation of Pennsylvania. The judgment rests for its validity on § 4...
Views: 13
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit affirming that of the District Court for Western Oklahoma. The bill in equity was filed by the United States for itself and as trustee for the Osage Tribe of Indians, against the Brewer-Elliott Oil & Gas Company, and five other such companies, lessees, under oil and gas...
Views: 15
delivered the opinion of the Court.. Ryan, the claimant and- appellant, by his amended petition in the Court of Claims, sought to recover from the United States $3,465, being $1.00 per diem from April 16, 1910, to and including October 10, 1919. He was during that period a customs inspector' at New York, and recéived $4.00 per day. He says that by law he was entitled to $5.00 per day, and he br...
Views: 2
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a writ of error under the Criminal Appeals Act (c. 2564, 34 Stat. 1246) to review the ruling of the District Court sustaining a dei turrer of one of the defendants to an indictment for a conspiracy to defraud a corporation in which the United States was and is a stockholder, under § 35 of the Criminal Code, as amended October 23, 1918, c. 194, 40...
Views: 22
delivered the opinion of the Court. The case is in narrow compass. Its purpose is to enjoin the appellee as receiver of the Jacksonville Traction Company, grantee of the Jacksonville Electric Company as hereinafter stated, and a corporation of Massachusetts, from. collecting more than a particular fare, five cents, and to compel the specific performance of an alleged contract providing for...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the Court. The appellees, as complainants in the- District Court in their capacity as copartners, or as individuals, assailed the constitutionality under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, of a statute of Tennessee passed in 1921, entitled, “An Act to define, regulate and license real estate brokers and real estate salesmen; to creat...
Views: 21
delivered the opinion of the Court. Action in the Court of Claims against the United States for expenses in endeavoring to perform certain contracts with the' United States made during the war with Germany, or for anticipated profits. The contracts were for aeronautical equipment for war purposes. There were a first and primary contract and seven other contracts called supplemental ag...
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the Court. The appellant had an authorized bridge across the Mississippi River. with a pivot pier and draw, to permit the passage of vessels. As a necessary incident it maintained what is called a protection pier extending down stream. In consequence of later authorized Constructions it became necessary to deepen the channel on the easterly side of the pier, and the par...
Views: 11
delivered the opinion of the Court, This is a suit brought by the respondent, who is also a cross-petitioner, to recover' the value of mussel shells removed from the lands of the respondent’s assignor and manufactured by the petitioners into buttons. It was brought in a Court of the State of Missouri, but was removed to the District Court of the United States. There were two counts; one simply ...
Views: 6
delivered the opinion of the Court. *139 This is a suit brought by the respondents, cotton brokers, to recover the balance of an account for the purchase and sale of 2,000 bales of cotton on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. At a first trial a verdict was directed for the defendant on the ground that broker’s seller’s slips coupled with oral evidence that corresponding buyer’s slip...
Views: 3
delivered the opinion of the Court. Since 1908, One Hundred and Forty-Ninth Street, New York City, has been carried over and across the tracks of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad by a public municipal steel truss bridge of standard construction. The bridge is fifty-four feet wide, two hundred and seventy feet long and is formed of posts, beams, girders, etc., connected and stren...
Views: 6
delivered the opinion of the Court. Styling himself the plaintiff, and declaring that he proceeded officially on behalf of the State, Allen J. Seney, prosecuting attorney, instituted the original proceeding.' against Swift & Company and The Northern Refrigerating Company, in the Court of Common Pleas for Lucas County, Ohio. He charged that those companies were parties to certain agreements...
Views: 2
delivered the opinion of the Court. The above entitled causes are here on writs of cer-tiorari, issued upon the sole petition of George S. Duarte, who described himself therein as the duly accredited Consul General of the Republic of Portugal in the United States of America, without more. The petition sets out the proceedings below; declares, “The Portuguese Government does not intend to avoid ...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the Court. ■ This action, under § 7 of the Anti-Trust Act, July 2, 1890, c. 647, 26 Stat. 209, was brought by Keogh in the federal District Court for1 Northern Illinois, Eastern Division, in November, 1914. Eight railroad companies and twelve individuals were made defendants. The case was heard upon demurrer to a special plea; the demurrer was overruled; judgment w...
Views: 15
delivered the opinion of the Court. The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad, has freight stations at Oakley and at Madisonville, both within the city limits of Cincinnati. It duly published, in connection with other carriers, interstate carload rates on lumber from southern points to Oakley and to Madi-sonville. It also duly published itftrastate carload rates from Oakley to Madisonvill...
Views: 17
delivered the opinion of the Court. Ordinances of the City of San Antonio, Texas, provide that no child or other person shall attend a public school or other place of education without having first presented a certificate of vaccination. Purporting to act under these ordinances, public officials excluded Rosalyn Zucht from a public school because she did not have the required certificate a...
Views: 14
delivered the opinion of the Court. The appellant is a person of the Japanese race born in Japan. He applied, on October 16, 1914, to the United States'District Court for the Territory of Hawaii to be admitted as a citizen of the United States. His petition was opposed by the United States District Attorney for the District of Hawaii. Including the period of his residence in Hawaii, .appellant ...
Views: 15
delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents one of the questions involved in the case of Takao Ozawa v. United States, this day decided,. ante, 178, viz!:' Are the petitioners, being persons of the Japanese race born in-Japan, entitled to naturalization under § 2169 of the Revised Statutes of the United States? Certificates of naturalization were issued to both petitioners by...
Views: 1
delivered the opinion of the Court. The parties to this action on December 11, 1916, in New York City, entered into a contract, the essential terms of which appear in the following letter from petitioner to respondent: '“Referring to our conversation this afternoon, I beg to advise that you are authorized to offer the steamer Eskasoni ’ for sale for four hundred and seventy-five thousand doll...
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1895 the California Pacific Railroad Company, one of the petitioners, was authorized by the Legislature of the State of California to construct, and did construct, a railroad bridge across the Sacramento River. For some years prior to that time this company had owned and both petitioners had- used another bridge situated in the near vicinity. Upon the...
Views: 2
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a motion by the appellees to set aside the super-sedeas and injunction granted by District Judge Foster at the time he allowed an appeal from an order of three judges, Circuit Judge Bryan, District Judge Clayton, and himself, denying an application for an interlocutory injunction under § 266 of t-he Judicial Code. The original bill was filed by the ...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the Court. ". Under authority of acts of Congress the [Dawes] Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes enrolled Thomas Atkins. as a Creek Indian alive on April 1, 1899; the Secretary of the Interior approved; an allotment was selected for him; a patent issued and was recorded as required by *224 law. Minnie Atkins undertook, as his sole heir, to convey the land to cert...
Views: 7
delivered the opinion' of the Court. The Burke Construction Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, brought-an action at law against petitioners in the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas on February 16, 1920. The jurisdiction of that court was invoked upon the ground of diversity of citizenship, the petitioners being citizens...
Views: 24
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the Court. We differ with the Circuit' Court of Appeals in its' holding that, as brought in review before it, this cause was an action at law. We think the cause was then equitable and the proper review was by appeal. The case began as an action at law for money had and received. When the defendant bank claimed to be only a stakeholder of th...
Views: 11
delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1913 the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by an act of its General Assembly [P. L. 1913, p. 639], imposed a tax of 2%% upon anthracite coal, and provided for the distribution of the tax. The act was adjudged a violation of the constitution of the Commonwealth which required uniformity of taxation. Commonwealth v. Alden Coal Co., ...
Views: 33
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the Court. Complaint is made of each of the rulings alluded to in the foregoing statement together with, some others. We take them up in their order. The setting aside of the purported service on the New York Central Company. While the state court, considered the objection to the service and overruled it before the rem...
Views: 13
delivered the opinion of the Court. *293 This case is here upon a certificate from the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, under § 239 of the Judicial Code. The plaintiff in error brought an action at law against the defendants in error in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon to recover damages for the fraudulent acquisition' of certain land...
Views: 15
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a writ of error to a decree of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts sustaining a demurrer to a bill in equity against the Treasurer and Receiver General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Boston Elevated Railway Company, and the trustees who are operating the railway of that Company under a special statute ■of the Commonwealth'(Mass...
Views: 4
delivered the opinion of the Court. The case is concerned with a statute of Indiana under Which judgment was obtained against the Railway Company upon a claim for damage to property which it received for transportation within the State. A motion is made by defendant in error to dismiss the writ of error, this Court, it is contended, being'without jurisdiction., The grounds of the moti...
Views: 8
delivered the opinion of the Court. Appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims which awards the appellee, plaintiff in the Court of Claims, the sum of $12,064.52, composed of three sums which are respectively of the amounts of $2,500, $450 and $9,114.52. 'The last two sums the 'United States does not contest. The sum of $2,500 is only, therefore, in question. The amount is charged to be...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the Court. Judgment in this case was rendered at the same time as that in Mason & Hanger Co. v. United States, just decided, ante, 323. The amounts only are different. In that case it was $2,500 — in this case it is $150. In both, the amounts represented premiums on bonds and depend upon the same considerations. ' On the author...
Views: 2
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a claim in respect of land which, or an interest in which, is alleged to have been taken by the United States Government. Similar claims in respect of the same land based upon earlier acts of the Government have been made before and have been denied. Peabody v. United States, 231 U. S. 530. Portsmouth Harbor Land & Hot...
Views: 7
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a suit for personal injuries to the plaintiff, the respondent in this Court, caused by the collision of a train upon which he was employed by the defendant, the petitioner, as an engineer, with a train of the Michigan Central Railroad .Company. After several trials and about seven years and a half after the suit was begun the plaintiff was allowe...
Views: 14
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a suit by the State of Arkansas against a corporation of Missouri authorized to do business in Arkansas. It is brought to recover five per cent, on the gross premiums paid by the defendant, the plaintiff in error, for insurance upon its property in Arkansas, to companies not authorized to do business in the State. A statute of the State purports ...
Views: 23
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is an action made up of the consolidation of two suits, both brought to make the plaintiff in error liable for what is alleged to have been the. wilful and wanton killing of Jesse Green, a conductor on the line of the Gulf & Ship Island Railroad Company, by one McLendon, an engineer. The first suit, although alleging that the railroad'was a .common ...
Views: 7
delivered the opinion of the Court. The five petitioners were indicted, tried and convicted in the District Pourt of the United States for the District *354 of Idaho upon a charge of unlawfully preventing and obstructing, by means of force, threats and intimidation, free passage over and through certain unoccupied public lands of the United States by designated persons, — they...
Views: 11
delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves a question of procedure and turns on the construction of Equity Rule 30. An understanding of the point at issue requires a statement of the facts and the course of the litigation. In September, 1918, the Hartenfeld Bag Company, which was ip a failing condition, owed the American Mills Company, the petitioner, about $22,000, which-...
Views: 13
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the Court. The Vermont Supreme Court depended for its conclusions chiefly upon Coe v. Errol, 116 U. S. 517, which is the leading case on this subject. There logs had been cut on Wentworth’s Location in New Hampshire during the winter, and had been drawn down to Errol in- the same State, and placed in Clear Stream and on the banks ...
Views: 14
delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a writ of error by the United States under the Criminal Appeals Act (c. 2564, 34 Stat. 1246), to reverse an order of the District Court for the Western District of Washington dismissing five counts of an indictment presented against the defendants in error April 28, 1920. The first of these charged the defendants with manufacturing intoxicating l...
Views: 21
delivered the opinion of the Court. The case involves the legality of taxes, assessments or penalties under the revenue law. or the National Prohibition Act, upon certain distilled spirits and .liquors of the Regal Drug Corporation (herein called complainant), and the distraint- of its store and the property contained therein. The remedy sought is by injunction against respondent, Wardell, as...
Views: 6
dissenting. The Kohler Act prohibits, under certain conditions, the mining of anthracite .coal within the limits of a city in such a manner or to such an extent “ as tó cause the ... *417subsidence of any dwelling or other structure used as a human habitation, or any factory, store, or other industrial or mercantile establishment in which human labor is employed.” Coal in place is land; and the ri...
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the Court. With the approval, of the Secretary of the Interior certain lands of the Crow Tribe of Indians in Montana were leased to George B. Kirby and Charles McDaniels for the grazing of cattle for two'years beginning February 1,1916. A bond, in which the United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company joined as surety, was given by the lessees for the faithful performanc...
Views: 1
delivered the opinion of the Court. This case involves conflicting claims to a tract of 160 acres of land in Imperial County (formerly San Diego .County), State of California. The. facts, so far as necessary to be stated, are as follows: About the years 1854-1856 the body of public-lands, which includes the' tract in contróversy, was surveyed under the authority of the United States. ...
Views: 17
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Spencer v. Duplah Silk Co., 191 U. S. 526, 530; Shulthis v. McDougal, 225 U. S. 561, 569; Hull v. Burr, 234 U. S. 712, 720; Norton v. Whiteside, 239 U. S. 144, 147....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Brown, 187 U. S. 308, 314; Consolidated Turnpike Co. v. Norfolk, etc., Ry. Co., 228 U. S. 596, 600; Pennsylvania Hospital v. Philadelphia, 245 U. S. 20, 24; (2) Southwestern Oil Co. v. Texas, 217 U. S. 114; Singer Sewing Machine Co. v. Brickell, 233 U. S. 304, 315; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. C...
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Cuyahoga River Power Co. v. Northern Realty Co., 244 U. S. 300, 303; Municipal Securities Corporation v. Kansas City,, 246 U. S. 63, 69; Bilby v. Stewart, 246 U. S. 255, 257; Farson, Son & Co. v. Bird, 248 U. S. 268, 271....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of § 237 of the Judicial Code, as 'amended by the Act of September 6, 19.16, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want .of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) Bogart v. Southern Pacific Co., 228 U. S. 137, 144; Apapas v. United States, 233 U. S. 587, 589; (2) Louisville & Nashville R. R. Co. v. Western Union Telegraph Co., 234 U. S. 369, 372; Public Service Co. v. Corboy, 250 U. S. 153, *695162; De Rees v. Costaguta, 254 U. S. 166, 173. Mr. William J. Hughes and Mr. Ephrim Caplan for appella...
Views: 0
Affirmed upon the authority of Burke v. Southern Pacific R. R. Co., 234 U. S. 669....
Views: 0
Affirmed upon the authority of Dreyer v. Illinois, 187 U. S. 71; Ughbanks v. Armstrong, 208 U. S. 481, 485....
Views: 0
Motion- for leave to file petition for writ of mandamus or writ of prohibition herein denied....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) Louisville Trust Co. v. Knott, 191 U.'S. 225; Bogart v. Southern Pacific Co., 228 U. S. 137, 144; De Rees v. Costaguta, 254 U. S. 166, 173; (2) Aspen Mining .& Smelting Co. v. Billings, 150 U. S. 31, 37; Brown v. Alton Water Co., 222 U. S. 325, 332-334; Metropolitan Water Co. v. Kaw Valley District, 223 U. S.' 519, 521-522; Shapiro v. U...
Views: 3
Affirmed upon the authority of Kansas City, etc., R. R. Co. v. Stiles, 242 U. S., 111, 118; Cheney Bros. Co. v. Massachusetts, 246 U. S. 147, 157; Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Wisconsin, 247 U. S. 132, 139....
Views: 0
Affirmed upon the authority of Railroad Commission of Wisconsin v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Co., 257 U. S. 563....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Schlosser v. Hemphill, 198 U. S. 173, 175; Louisiana Navigation Co. v. Oyster Commission of Louisiana, 226 U. S. 99, 101; Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works, 237 U. S. 413, 418; Bruce v. Tobin, 245 U. S. 18, 19....
Views: 0
Judgment affirmed with costs by an equally divided court....
Views: 0
The mandamus asked in.this motion relates to the granting of a supersedeas by .the judge of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana in case No. 650 on the docket of this Court. The Court considers the application for mandamus as a motion to set aside the supersedeas and injunction granted by the district judge in this case, and a rule will issue to the appella...
Views: 0
Affirmed on authority of Lambert Run Coal Co. v. Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Co., 258 U. S. 377....
Views: 0
Affirmed by an equally divided court....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195....
Views: 0
Affirmed upon the authority of Mutual Life Ins. Co. v. Liebing, 259 U. S. 209....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Johnson v. New York Life Ins. Co., 187 U. S. 491, 496; Ireland v. Woods, 246 U. S. 323, 330; Erie R. R. Co. v. Hamilton, 248 U. S. 369, 371-372....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. El Banco Popular v. Wilcox, 255 U. S. 72; Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co. v. Ward, 242 U. S. 1....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Lehigh Water Co. v. Easton, 121 U. S. 388, 392; New Orleans Waterworks Co. v. Louisiana, 185 U. S. 336, 350-351; Hubert v. New Orleans, 215 U. S. 170, 175; Cross Lake Shooting & Fishing Club v. Louisiana, 224 U. S. 632, 639....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Spencer v. Duplan Silk Co., 191 U. S. 526, 530; Shulthis v. McDougal, 225 U. S. 561, 569; Hull v. Burr, 234 U. S. 712, 720; St. Anthony. Church v. Pennsylvania R. R. Co., 237 U. S. 575, 577. The petition for a writ of certiorari herein is denied....
Views: 0
Motion for leave to file petition for writ of habeas corpus herein denied, without prejudice to the right of the petitioner to apply for a writ of habeas corpus to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Washington directed to the officers in charge of the McNeil Island Penitentiary....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Hulbert v. Chicago, 202 U. S. 275, 280; Cleveland & Pittsburgh R. R. Co. v. Cleveland, 235 U. S. 50, 53; Hiawassee River Rower Co. v. Carolina-Tennessee Power Co., 252 U. S. 341, 344....
Views: 11
Affirmed upon the authority of Van Allen v. The Assessors, 3 Wall. 573; National Bank v. Commonwealth, 9 Wall. 353, 359....
Views: 2
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Section 3, Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 726, 727; Central Trust Co. v. Lueders, 239 U. S. 11; Staats Co. v. Security Trust & Savings Bank, 243 U. S. 121, 124....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Sugarman v. United States, 249 U. S. 182, 184; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195; (2) Jeffrey Mfg. Co. v. Blagg, 235 U. S. 571, 576; Blair v. United States, 250 U. S. 273, 279; Dahnke-Walker Milling Co. v. Bondurant, 257 U. S. 282, 289; (3) National Prohibition Cases, 253 U. ...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of New York, in this cause, submitted to the whole court, granted....
Views: 0
Motion as to (1) withdrawal of original paper of notice *704of dismissal of counsel, dated December 31, 1921, denied. Motion as to (2) original deed of July 5, 1918,. from George Redeagle to Paul A. Ewert and as to (3) original deeds of November 19, November 21, and December 21, 1921, from the heirs of George Redeagle to Paul A. Ewert, granted, the copies of said deeds on file to remain with the C...
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Section 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6....
Views: 6
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Act of February 8, 1899, c. 121, 30 Stat. 822; Le Crone v. McAdoo, 253 U. S. 217, 219....
Views: 0
Affirmed upon the authority of Glavey v. United States, 182 U. S. 595; United States v. Andrews, 240 U. S. 90, 94; McMath v. United States, 248 U. S. 151, 152, Mr. Assistant to the Attorney General Seymour, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for the United States....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of: (1) Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Brown, 187 U. S. 308, 314; Consolidated Turnpike Co. v. Norfolk, etc., Ry. Co., 228 U. S. 596, 600; Pennsylvania Hospital v. Philadelphia, 245 U. S. 20, 24; (2) Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U. S. 698, 707, 728, 730; Zakonaite v. Wolf, 226 U. S. 272, 275; Bugajewitz v. Adams, 228 U. S. 585, 591;...
Views: 0
Affirmed upon the authority of Central Union Trust Co. v. *707Garvan, 254 U. S. 554; Stoehr v. Wallace, 255 U. S. 239. Mr. Henry A. Wise for appellant. Mr. James A. Fowler, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mr. Assistant to the Attorney General Seymour, Mr. Guy'D. Goff, Mr. Adna R. Johnson, Jr., and Mr. Dean Hill Stanley, Special Assistants to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for appel...
Views: 1
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Norfolk & Suburban Turnpike Co. v. Virginia, 225 U. S. 264, 268; Louisiana Navigation Co. v. Oyster Commission, 226 U. S. 99, 101; Schlosser v. Hemphill, 198 U. S. 173, 176; Missouri & Kansas Interurban Ry. Co. v. Olathe, 222 U. S. 185, 186....
Views: 0
with whom concurred- Mr. Justice Day and Mr. Justice Clarke, dissenting. The question in the cases is without complexity, and the means of its solution ready at hand. The question is, What is the law applicable to colliding vessels and what remedy, is to be applied to the offending one, if there be an offending one? .The question, I venture to say, has unequivocal'answer in a number of decisipns o...
Views: 0
dissenting. With regret, I dissent from the opinion and judgment of the court. This matter was submitted to the Commission upon an Agreed Statement of Facts, the twelfth clause of which— the last but one — declares: “12. That the merchandising conduct of respondent heretofore defined and as herein involved does not constitute a contract or contracts whereby resale prices are fixed, maintained and ...
Views: 0
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 going beyond what the plaintiff insists is the'limit of their power and duty, in dealing with a selection of indemnity land under the Act of July 27, 1866, c. 278, 14 Stat. 292, which made a land grant in aid of the construction of a railroad in Ca...
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the court. Section 1697, Revised Statutes, as amended by Act of December *21,1898, c. 36, 30 S'tat. 77Ó, requires every Consul-General before receiving his commission to execute a bond conditioned for the true and faithful performance of duties lawfully imposed upon him as. such officer., It is copied in the margin. 1 Purporting to proceed under this section plainti...
Views: 3
delivered the opinion of the court. Asking for instruction, the .court below has sent up the following certificate and questions. Judicial Code, § 239. “ This cause came to the Circuit Cijmrt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upon an appeal from the United States District Court of Oregon from a judgment in favor of the appellee as libelant in that court, and against the appellant as li...
Views: 16
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit by the Director General of Railroads and five railroad companies to enjoin the collection of a special excise tax assessed against each of the companies for the years 1918 and 1919 under a statute of North Dakota, c. 222, Laws 1919, which declares: “Every corporation, joint-stock company or association, now or hereafter organized unde...
Views: 12
delivered the. opinion of the court. This is a bill in equity brought in this Court by the State of North Dakota against certain named railroad companies to prevent their applying an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission until this Court can review the decision upon which that order .was made. The order increased the intrastate rates in North Dakota upon a finding that the present ra...
Views: 4
delivered the opinion of the court. These cases, though having different parties and coming from different courts, are dependent upon the same considerations. They differ in some details but they all involve the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and its assistant legislation, the National Prohibition Act. The Amendment after its ratification prohibited for beverage purp...
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the court. Chapter 164, Oklahoma Laws of 1915, makes every person of the State liable to a tax upon his entire net income arising from all sources, except such as is exempt from taxation by some law of the United States or of the State. Under that statute Oklahoma seeks in these proceedings to hold the defendant, the plaintiff in error, liable for taxes for the yea...
Views: 10
delivered the opinion of the court. The International Railway Company owns and operates two public toll-bridges across the Niagara River between the United States and Canada. One is at Niagara Falls, the other at Lewiston, a short distance below. Over each bridge the company operates regularly its passenger'.cars; and over each there is heavy passenger travel also in other vehicles and on ...
Views: 17
delivered the opinion of the court. The parties to this case agree: That the boundary line between the States of Georgia and South Carolina is the river Savannah from the sea to the junction of the Seneca (formerly Keowee) and the Tugaloo (formerly spelled Túgalo) rivers; that it continues thence northwesterly by the Tugaloo river to the junction of the Tallulah and Chattooga rivers, and thence...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of'the court. Eames and Young, architects of St. Louis, made the plans.for a custom house at San Francisco and supervised its construction. They were to receive compensation at the rate of five per centum upon the actual cost of the work. The work was long delayed, three years, by the San Francisco earthquake and fire which increased the cost of labor and materials. Congre...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the court. This is an appeal from the District Court under § 238 of the Judicial Code, in a case in which.the.law of a State is claimed to be in contravention" of the Constitution of the United States. The Burke Construction Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Missouri, filed its bill against Terral, Secretary of State of Arkansas, ...
Views: 15
delivered the opinion of the court. This is á writ of error to the judgment of the highest court of the State of Louisiana to which the case could be taken. The plaintiff, the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a Missouri corporation, sued the defendant company, the Clarendon Boat Oar -Company, a New York company, for damages in the District Court of Richland Parish, for the breach of an a...
Views: 7
delivered the opinion of the court. This case involves the sufficiency of a protest necessary to justify a suit against the United States for duties illegally exacted. The Board of General Appraisers found the protest defective and refused relief.» The Court of Customs Appeals on appeal reversed this action and gave judgment for the importer. 10 Cust. App. 165. The case comes here by certi...
Views: 1
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. The President acted under the 118th Article of War, which provides in part (39 Stat. 619, 650, 669) that, “No officer shall be discharged or dismissed from the service except by order of the President or by sentence of a general court-martial; and in time of peace no officer shall be dismissed except in pursuance of the sentence of a...
Views: 4
delivered the opinion of the court. The question in this case is whether a proceeding in a state county court to assess benefits and damages growing out of a road improvement was properly removed to the federal District Court. The assessors appointed by the County Court of Lafayette County, Arkansas, for Road Improvement District No. 2, imposed an assessment on lands within the distri...
Views: 3
257 U.S. 563 (1922) RAILROAD COMMISSION OF WISCONSIN ET AL. v. CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY. No. 206. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 11, 14, 15, 1921. Reargument October 24, 1921. Reargued December 5, 6, 7, 1921. Decided February 27, 1922. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. *567 Mr. M.B. Olbrich, with whom ...
Views: 11
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. The Commission’s order, interference with which was enjoined by the District Court, effects the removal of the unjust discrimination found to exist against persons in interstate commerce, and against interstate commerce, by fixing a minimum for intrastate passenger fares in Wisconsin at 3.6 cents per mile per passenger. This is done under...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the court. This was a bill in equity against the United States and the Interstate Commerce Commission and others brought by the State of New York and its Attorney General to annul and enjoin the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission requiring the interstate railroads operating in intrastate commerce in the State of New York to charge in such...
Views: 17
delivered the opinion of the court. The -question presented for decision is whether, under the Income Tax Law of 1913, income held and accumulated .by a trustee for the benefit of unborn and unascer-t tained persons was taxable. The accumulations of income were $789,905.65 for the years 1913, 1914 and 1915, and the tax collected by the petitioner, as Collector, and paid under protest by th...
Views: 2
It is ordered that these cases be restored to the docket for reargument on February 27, with special reference to the questions: (1) Whether the suit was not prematurely brought as no action has' been taken either by the State or by the state commission under the statute,-and (2) Whether the bill presents a cause justiciable between the two States parties to the action....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction, upon the authority' of St. Anthony Church v. Pennsylvania R. R. Co., 237 U. S. 575, 577-578....
Views: 0
Dismissed for the want of jurisdiction. Section 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6....
Views: 4
*621Motion for leave to file a petition for a writ of prohibition, and the petition •for . a writ of certiorari, herein, denied. Mr. Charles A. Brown for respondent....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Schlosser v. Hemphill, 198 U. S. 173, 175; Louisiana Navigation Co. v. Oyster Commission of Louisiana, 226 U. S. 99, 101; Coe v. Armour Fertilizer Works, 237 U. S. 413, 418, 419; Gray’s Harbor Co. v. Coats-Fordney Co., 243 U. S. 251, 255; Bruce v. Tobin, 245 U. S. 18, 19. Writ of certiorari denied upon the same ground....
Views: 0
*623It is ordered that these cases be restored to the docket for reargument, as the first cases for hearing April 10 next, on the question whether the decree in the District Court, from which these are appeals, is in conformity with the opinion of this court in United States v. Reading Co., 253 U. S. 26, and that the Attorney General be advised of this order....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U.S. 193, 195....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of United States v. Krall, 174 U. S. 385, 389-391; German National Bank v. Speckert, 181 U. S. 405, 409; United States v. Beatty, 232 U. S. 463, 466....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction. Section *624237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 5-6. Mr. Edward J. White, Mr. Thomas B. Pryor and Mr. Samp Jennings for plaintiff in error. Mr. Joseph S. Utley for defendant in error....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195....
Views: 0
Dismissed for want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195....
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the court. This'case was begun by a libel in rem filed by A. W. Mylroie, the respondent herein, as owner of the American barge “ Bangor ”, and lawful bailee of its cargo, against the British tug “ Commodore ”, in the District Court of Alaska. The libel, as later amended, charged, in substance, that the Commodore was engaged in towing the Bangor on a voya...
Views: 7
delivered the opinion of the court. The two Johnstons, father and son, citizens of North Carolina, the former in his own right, and as the aiithor *14 ized next friend of his son, filed their bill of complaint April 15, 1919,' against the Atherton Mills, a corporation of the same State. The bill averred that Johnston, the son, was a minor between the ages of fourteen and sixte...
Views: 14
delivered the opinion of the court. The decree entered herein by the District Court and appealed from, directly, to this court, under § 238 of the Judicial Code, recited that the complainants operated a manufacturing plant for the production of cotton goods in Gaston County, North Carolina; that the defendant was a Federal Collector of Internal Revenue; that on the ground that complainants had ...
Views: 14
delivered the opinion of the court. This case presents the question of the constitutional validity of the Child Labor Tax Law. The plaintiff below, the Drexel Furniture Company, is engaged in the manufacture of furniture in the Western District of North Carolina. On September 20, 1921, it received a notice from Bailey, United States Collector of Internal Revenue for the District, that it had be...
Views: 18
259 U.S. 44 (1922) HILL, JR., ET AL. v. WALLACE, SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE, ET AL. No. 616. Supreme Court of United States. Argued January 11, 12, 1922. Decided May 15, 1922. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS. *49 Mr. Henry S. Robbins for appellants. Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mr. Blackburn Esterline, Special Assistant to the Attor...
Views: 26
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a claim for $512,515.50, being the price of 20,500,620 pounds of copper at twenty-six cents a pound less payments received at twenty-three and a half cents. The petition was dismissed by the Court of Claims on demurrer. The facts alleged are as follows. The Government had some correspondence with the United Metals Selling Company ending in an ord...
Views: 8
259 U.S. 80 (1922) GROGAN, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE FOR THE FIRST DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN, ET AL. v. HIRAM WALKER & SONS, LTD. ANCHOR LINE (HENDERSON BROTHERS), LTD. v. ALDRIDGE, COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS FOR THE PORT OF NEW YORK. Nos. 615, 639. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 19, 1922. Decided May 15, 1922. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRIC...
Views: 6
delivered the opinion of the court. In their original bill appellants allege: That they hold perpetual franchises over certain streets in Newport, Kentucky, for operating street cars and distributing electric current; that in due course it became necessary for them to obtain an additional current from another company; and that to that ¿nd in 1915, under supervision and direction of the cit...
Views: 3
delivered the opinion of the court. These are appeals in separate but related causes wherein the Consolidated Gas Company of New York and certain of its subsidiary and affiliated corporations alleged that the maximum selling rate for gas prescribed by c. 125, Laws of New York, 1906, was confiscatory and asked that its enforcement be enjoined. The principal issues between the original ...
Views: 5
delivered the opinion of the court. Wilson sued the Union Tool Company in the federal court for the Southern District of California, Southern Division, for infringement of a patent for underreamers. He obtained a decree for an injunction and an accounting, 237 Fed. 847, which was affirmed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 249 Fed. 736; and a petition for ...
Views: 20
delivered the opinion of the court. To aid in defraying the expenses of the District of Columbia Congress laid a tax of three-tenths of one per cent, on the value of the intangible property of persons resident, or engaged in business, within the District. Act of March 3, 1917, c. 160, § 9, 39 Stat. 1004, 1046. This tax was assessed upon such property held by Heald and others, as committee of Pe...
Views: 24
delivered the opinion of the court. In 1913 the defendant in error, the Phoenix Refining Company (herein designated the Phoenix Company), a corporation organized under the laws of Oklahoma, erected an oil refinery at Sand Springs, in that State. In the same year the plaintiff in error, the Pierce Oil Corporation (herein designated the Pierce Company), a corporation organized under the laws...
Views: 15
delivered the opinion of the com l. We have here cross appeals in a suit to have declared invalid a deed to Paul A. Ewert for restricted lands inherited by the widow and adult and minor heirs of Charles Bluejacket, a full-blood Quapaw Indian, and for an accounting for rents and royalties derived from such lands. On October 23, 1908, Ewert was appointed a special assistant-to the Attorney Gene...
Views: 8
delivered the opinion of the court. This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Appéals, dismissing an appeal from a decree by the District Court which dismissed the petition, in a suit in which it was prayed that appellee, Paul A. Ewert, should be decreed to hold in trust for George Redeagle the title to 100 acres of restricted and very valuable Indian lands, which Redeagle, a...
Views: 3
259 U.S. 150 (1922) RAINIER BREWING COMPANY v. GREAT NORTHERN PACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY. No. 267. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 21, 1922. Decided May 15, 1922. ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. *151 Mr. S.J. Wettrick for plaintiff in error. Mr. Charles A. Hart, with whom Mr. Charles H. Carey and Mr. James B. Kerr were on the brief, for defendant in error....
Views: 1
after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the'court. The appeals which brought this case here were taken under the Act of Congress approvéd February 11, 1903, c. 544, 32 Stat. 823, as modified by § 291 of the Judicial Code. Ordinarily the scope of our review of the decree of *166 the District Court would be limited to the assignments of error of the appellants,...
Views: 13
delivered the opinion of the court O. J. Burton, one of the petitioners, received injuries while working in the general repair shops of the Railway Company upon 'an engine that had been employed in interstate commerce and which was destined to be so-employed again, and the question is whether redress for the injury must be sought through the Workmen’s Compensation Act of California (c. 586...
Views: 12
delivered the opinion of the court. This is an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Claims dismissing the appellant’s petition upon demurrer. The petition alleges that the claimant had outstanding contracts calling for more than the actual production of its mines for the months of June and following through November, 1918, at a price of $4.50 per gross ton; that the Fuel Administration a...
Views: 1
delivered the opinion of the court. This case like Morrisdale Coal Co. v. United States, ante, 188, is a claim based upon the action of the Fuel Administration under the Act of August 10, 1917, c. 53, § 25, 40 Stat. 276, 284, fixing prices for coal. The allegations and arguments however are different. The transactions of the claimant from and including September, 1917...
Views: 12
delivered the opinion of the court. These are two bills in equity brought in respect of different parcels of land but seeking the same kind of relief against the Secretary of the Interior, and raising the same question of law. The facts are simple. Under the land grant to its predecessor, the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company, the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company was the owner of coal l...
Views: 6
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit for threefold damages brought by the plaintiff in error under the Anti-Trust Acts of July 2, 1890, c. 647, § 7, 26 Stat. 209, 210, and of October 15, 1914, c. 323, § 4, 38 Stat. 730, 731. The defendants are The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs and The American League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, unincorporated associations, c...
Views: 21
delivered the opinion of the court. This is a suit to recover upon a policy insuring the life of one Blees, issued to him and subsequently assigned by him to his wife, now Mrs. Liebing, the plaintiff (defendant in error). The contract was made on September 29, 1901, by the defendant (the plaintiff in error), in Missouri, by a delivery of the policy to Blees in Macon, Missouri, where he liv...
Views: 10
259 U.S. 214 (1922) UNITED STATES v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY ET AL. No. 5. Supreme Court of United States. Argued April 18, 19, 20, 1921. Restored for reargument January 9, 1922. Reargued April 11, 12, 13, 1922. Decided May 29, 1922. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF UTAH. *217 Mr. Edward F. McClennen, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, and Mr. Solic...
Views: 18
delivered the opinion, of the. court. Defendant in error, a corporation organized under the laws of Maryland and authorized to act as guardian, was on January 30, 1919, appointed by the Orphans Court guardian of Frank It. Brown, an infant whose father had died intestate about a year before. The son as next of kin became entitled to 35 shares of the stock of the Hartford Fire Insurance Comp...
Views: 9
delivered the opinion Of the court. The Supreme Court of Washington affirmed a judgment against petitioner Packing Company rendered by the trial court upon a verdict for damages on account of injuries which respondent suffered while employed upon petitioner’s motor boat afloat in navigable Alaskan waters. Respondent claimed that, prior to the departure of the boat upon a trip intended...
Views: 18
delivered the opinion of the. court. The bill was dismissed upon motion by the trial court for want of equity and the Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed this action. 268 Fed. 348. Appellant — a native of Russia who has declared his intention to become a citizen of the United States^ — claims the right to fish in specified locations in the Columbia River and seeks a mandatory injunction requiri...
Views: 12
delivered the opinion of the court. Sebastiana Insana, mother of Guiseppe Insana, asked of the New York State Industrial Commission an allowance under the Workmen’s Compensation Law on account of her son’s death, which she claimed resulted from accidental injuries received May 15, 1918, in the course of his employment as a longshoreman by the Nordenholt Cor *270 poration then ...
Views: 13
delivered the opinion of the court. On January 27, 1919, five persons of the Chinese race, of whom four are petitioners herein, joined in an application for a writ of habeas corpus to the judge of the federal court for the Southern Division of the Northern District *278 of California. A writ issued directed to the Commissioner of Immigration for the Port of San Francisco, who ...
Views: 22
delivered the opinion of the court. This action was brought by the Merchants Elevator Company in a state court of Minnesota against the Great Northern Railway Company and the Director General to recover $80 alleged to have been exacted in violation of the carrier’s tariff. That sum had been demanded by the carrier, under Rule 10 of its .tariff, as a reconsignment charge, at the rate of $5 ...
Views: 23
delivered the opinion of the court. This suit was brought in the Court of Claims by the Fidelity and Deposit Company of Maryland to recover the sum of $8,300, being the aggregate of amounts paid as bankers’ special taxes for the years 1898 to 1901, under- § 2 of the Spanish War Revenue Act of June 13, 1898, c. 448, 30 Stat. 448. The company applied on November 22, 1913, for a refund, pursu...
Views: 2
delivered the opinion of the court. This suit was brought in the Court of Claims by the Fidelity Title & Trust Company of Pittsburgh, in July, 1918, to recover the sum of $10,028.94 assessed upon its whole capital and undivided profits and paid as bankers’ special taxes under § 2 of the Spanish War Revenue Act. That court entered judgment for the defendant; and the case is here on appeal. ...
Views: 6
delivered the opinion of the court. This is the second appeal by Collins in this case. The first was dismissed in Collins v. Miller, 252 U. S. 364, for want of jurisdiction. There the earlier proceedings and the nature of the controvérsy are fully set forth. After our decision the case was again heard by the District Court, *311 on the same record and the...
Views: 18
delivered the opinion of the court. These are cross appeals in a suit to restrain the enforcement of an ordinance enacted by the City of Houston, Texas (hereinafter referred to as the City), prescribing rates for telephone service, based upon the claim that the rates are confiscatory. The master to whom the case was referred found that the rates were clearly confiscatory and the Distr...
Views: 6
delivered the opinion of the court. In the petition in this case a writ of mandamus is prayed for, commanding the Secretary of War to annul an order by him, purporting to have been made by direction and authority of the President, approving the action of a final classificatidn board and retiring the relator, Colonel John W. French, from active service in the Army, under the provisions of §...
Views: 9
delivered the opinion of the court. This case is in most respects so like No. 724, United States ex rel. French v. Weeks, ante, 326, that the two were argued and submitted together. The relator herein was a Colonel in the Army and was discharged on November 17, 1920, “ by direction of the President ” on order of the Secretary of War, under the provisions of § 24b of the Army Reorganizat...
Views: 10
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. There are five principal questions pressed by the pláintiffs in error here, the defendants below. The first is that there was a misjoinder of parties plaintiff. The second is that the United Mine Workers of America, District No. 21, United Mine Workers of America, and the local unions made defendants, are unincorporated associatio...
Views: 23
delivered the opinion of the court. Harley-Davidson Motor Company and Alexander Klein filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to the judges of thé Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Iii substance it sets forth: That in a suit' for infringement of letters patent relating to clutches 'for motorcycles, brought in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern *415...
Views: 0
delivered the opinion of the court. This is an original suit in this court by the Shite of Wyoming against the State of Colorado and two Colorado corporations to prevent a proposed diversion in Colorado of part of the waters of the Laramie River, an interstate stream. The bill was brought in 1911, the evidence was *456 taken in 1913 and 1914; and the parties, put it in condens...
Views: 14
This cause having been heretofore submitted on the pleadings and the evidence taken before and reported by the commissioners appointed for the purpose, and the court being now fully advised in the premises: It is considered, ordered and decreed that the defendants, their officers, agents and servants, be, and they are hereby, severally enjoined from diverting or taking from the Laramie River and i...
Views: 9
delivered the opinion of the court. The appellants, defendants below, are citizens and officers of the State of Colorado, charged with official duties with respect to the distribution of water from streams of that State for irrigating purposes, and other citizens of Colorado, who need not be further noticed. The appellee, plaintiff below, a corporation organized under Nebraska laws, i...
Views: 7
259 U.S. 503 (1922) WARD & GOW v. KRINSKY ET AL. No. 343. Supreme Court of United States. Argued December 14, 1921. Decided June 5, 1922. ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, THIRD JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT, OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. Mr. Herman S. Hertwig for plaintiff in error. Mr. E. Clarence Aiken, with whom Mr. Charles D. Newton, Attorney General of the State of New York, was on the ...
Views: 8
delivered the opinion of the court. Robert T. Cheek sued the Prudential Insurance Company of America in the Circuit'Court of St. Louis tp re-, cover damages upon a cause of action set forth in two counts: First, that the company being a New Jersey corporation conducting a life insurance business in Missouri under license of the insurance department, of that State, and plaintiff having been...
Views: 15
delivered the opinion of the court. This writ of error was sued out to test the validity, in view of the due process and equal protection provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment, of the Service Letter Law of Oklahoma (Act of April 24, 1908, Oklahoma Laws 1907-08, p. 516; Revised Laws Oklahoma 1910, § 3769), applicable to public service corporations and the like, in .a case that arose under ...
Views: 8
259 U.S. 557 (1922) LIPKE v. LEDERER, COLLECTOR OF INTERNAL REVENUE FOR THE FIRST DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. No. 596. Supreme Court of United States. Argued March 21, 22, 1922. Decided June 5, 1922. APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. Mr. Lincoln L. Eyre, with whom Mr. Francis J. Maneely and Mr. Otto A. Schlobohm were on the brief, for appe...
Views: 24
*566 Certain issues in this cause involving proprietary claims to the bed of Red River having been heretofore submitted on the pleadings, various petitions of intervention and the evidence taken before and reported by a commissioner, and the court having considered those issues and announced its conclusions thereon in an opinion delivered May 1, 1922: It is considered, ordered and...
Views: 12
This cause came on to be heard by this court, and, for the purpose of carrying into effect the conclusions of the court as stated in its opinion herein, [257 U. S. 516], It is ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the boundary between the States of Georgia and South Carolina is and shall be the rivers ¡Savannah, Tugaloo and Chattooga to the point where the latter river touches the North Carolina ...
Views: 0
Dismissed for the want of jurisdiction upon the authority of Farrell v. O’Brien, 199 U. S. 89, 100; Toop v. Ulysses Land Co., 237 U. S. 580, 583; Piedmont Power & Light Co. v. Graham, 253 U. S. 193, 195....
Views: 1
The United Shoe Machinery Corporation and others, appellants, having presented their application for rehearing and modification of the decree of affirmance heretofore rendered in this cause [258 U. S. 451], upon consideration thereof the-same is overruled. It is ordered that the District Court after the receipt of the mandate of affirmance may-hear an application of the appellants for an extension...
Views: 0
In these cases, which were suits brought under § 266, Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of March 4, 1913, c. 160, 37 Stat. 1013, for a preliminary and permanent injunction, a preliminary injunction was denied by the District Court and a stay granted until an application eóuld be made to this court. As the District Court is *577familiar with the character of the case, and we are not, we deny the...
Views: 4
Motion to reinstate submitted May 29, 1922.[See 258 U. S. 634.]...
Views: 2
Dismissed for the want of jurisdiction. § 237 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of September 6, 1916, c. 448, § 2, 39 Stat. 726; Baltimore & Potomac R. R. Co. v. Hopkins, 130 U. S. 210; Jett Bros. Distilling Co. v. Carrollton, 252 U. S. 1, 6; Schaff v. Famechon Co., 258 U. S. 76....
Views: 0
Order entered authorizing payments to counsel and to. the receiver, and to charge the same as expenses of the receivership....
Views: 5
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorarNto the Supreme Court of the ■State of Arizona denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of cer-*745tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied. Mr. Hiram T. Gilbert¿ Mr. John C. Slade and Mr. Walter Bachrach for pétitioners. Mr. William Beye, Mr. Edward C. Kramer, Mr. Bruce A. Campbell and Mr. George B. Logan for respondents....
Views: 0
Certificate dismissed, on motion of Mr. Solicitor General Beck for the United States....
Views: 0
Petition for .a writ of cer-tiorari herein denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Kansas City Court of Appeals of the State of Missouri granted....
Views: 0
The application is denied for the reáson that the provision of § 195 of the Judicial Code, as amended by the Act of August 22, 1914, c. 267, 38 Stat. 703, which prescribes the *743time within which application may be made to this Court for a writ of certiorari, has been amended'and limited by § 6 of the Act of September' 6, 1916, c. 448, 39 Stat. 726, 727. Mr. Solicitor General Beck and Mr. Assist...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied. Mr. Clifford B. Allen for petitioners,....
Views: 0
Petition for á writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied. Mr. Clifford B. Allen for petitioners....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the .Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition, for a writ of .certiorari to. the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Dismissed with costs, on motion of counsel for plaintiff in error....
Views: 0
Dismissed, per stipulation....
Views: 1
Petition for a writ of certiorari herein granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to *719the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted. Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, and Mr. G. Noble Jones for petitioner. No appearance for respondent....
Views: 0
The petition for cer^. *740tiorari in this case was denied on the ground that it was not filed in time. Petitioner now moves for a rehearing on the ground that its petition arrived in the Clerk’s office on the afternoon of the day .before it was filed, in seasonable time. Without considering or deciding this question the Court has examined the petition on its'merits and denies it. Mr. Maurice C. S...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of cer-tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of .certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari, to the Municipal Court, City of New York, Borough of Bronx, Second District, of the State of New York, denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a-writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied:...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands, denied....
Views: 0
Petition 'for a writ of certiorari to the Probate Court for Plymouth County,. State of Massachusetts, denied....
Views: 1
Petition for a writ of Certiorari herein denied, because of failure to file the petition within the timé prescribed by the statute....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of cer-tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied, because of failure to file the petition within the time prescribed by the statute....
Views: 0
Petition for rehearing in this cause granted, and cause restored to the docket for hearing before .a full bench....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted....
Views: 1
Petition for a writ of. cer-tiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of New York granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth •Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorári to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of South Carolina granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted....
Views: 1
Petition for writs of certiorari to the Circuit- Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied....
Views: 4
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari herein denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of cer-tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 1
Petition for a writ óf certiorari to the- Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition, for a writ of cer-tiorari to the .Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth. Circuit denied.'...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Montana denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the,Supreme Court of the State of Illinois denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to - the,. Circuit Court of Appeals for. the Sixth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a Writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of cer-tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for -the Third Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands denied. Mr. Adam C. Carson for peti-' tioners....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals .for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court o.f the Philippine Islands denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for' the Eighth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied.-...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to ’the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama denied....
Views: 0
Petition, for a writ of cer-tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied,...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petitions for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court pLAppeals for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari heroin denied....
Views: 0
Petition for -a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied because of failure to file the petition within the time prescribed by the.statute....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ- of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the *739Third Circuit denied because of failure to file the petition within the time prescribed by the statute. Mr. David H. Bilder for petitioner. Mr. James D. Carpenter, Jr., and Mr. John M. Enright for respondent....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ.of certiorari to the United States Court of Customs Appeals denied because of failure to file the petition within the time prescribed by the. statute....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to, the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied because of failure to file the petition within the time prescribed by the statute....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ pf certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied because of failure to file the petition within the time prescribed by the statute....
Views: 0
Dismissed, on motion of Mr. Solicitor General Beck for the United States....
Views: 0
Dismissed, on motion of Mr. Solicitor General Beck for the United States....
Views: 0
Dismissed with costs, -on motion of counsel for plaintiff in error....
Views: 0
Dismissed with costs, .on motion of counsel for petitioner....
Views: 0
Dismissed, per stipulation.''...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Superior Court of Suffolk County, State of. Massachusetts, granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for writs of cer-*716tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit granted. Mr. Edward F. McClennen, Mr. William H. Dunbar and Mr. Allison L. Newton for petitioners. Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mr. Assistant Attorney General Ottinger ánd Mr. Harvey B. Cox for respondents....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted....
Views: 3
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Texas denied.'...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for- the Ninth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit *730Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied. Mr. C. A. L. Massie for petitioner. • Mr. Hans v. Briesen, for respondent....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied. Mr. C. S. Herbert for petitioner....
Views: 3
Petition for a writ of certi-orari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a tvrit of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri denied....
Views: 1
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the Sta^e of Utah denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit'denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition'ior a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh *732Circuit denied. Mr. John H. Kay, Mr. Charles W'. Miller and Mr. Walter D. Corrigan for petitioner. No appearance for respondent...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth'’ Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Decree of Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in accordance with the stipulation filed herein; and cause remanded to the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York with directions to énter a decree dismissing the bill without prejudice and without costs to pither party....
Views: 0
Dismissed with costs, pursuant to the 18th Rulé,...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted....
Views: 1
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.granted....
Views: 4
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of- Appeals for the Second Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Kansas City Court of Appeals of the State of Missouri granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of cer-tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of cer-tiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the. Seventh Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition- for a writ of • certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari herein denied....
Views: 0
Petition-for a writ of cer-tiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a .writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals •for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition *727for a writ of certiorari herein denied. Mr. J. Blanc Monroe, Mr. Monte M. Lemann, Mr. R. H. Thompson, Mr. S. L. McLaurin and Mr. Walter J. Suthon, Jr., for plaintiffs in error, in- support of the petition. Mr. William H. Watkins for defendant in error, in opposition to the petition. [See post, 755.]...
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals .for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition .for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of-the Philippine Islands denied....
Views: 0
Petition for á writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to' the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Dismissed with costs, on motion of counsel for appellants....
Views: 0
Dismissed with costs,,pursuant to. the 16th Rule....
Views: 4
Dismissed with costs, for want of prosecution....
Views: 0
Petition dismissed with costs, on motion of counsel for petitioner....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands granted....
Views: 0
Petition for 'a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, of the State of Louisiana, granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the ■Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 0
.Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied....
Views: 1
Petitions for writs of certiorari- to .the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied....
Views: 2
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition *723for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Oklahoma denied. Mr. Thomas P. Littlepage, Mr. Sidney F. Taliaferro, Mr. C. 0. Blake and Mr. W. R. Bleakmore for petitioner. Mr. W. A; Ledbetter, Mr. H. L. Stuart and Mr. R. R. Bell for respondent.....
Views: 2
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Appeals of the State of Virginia denied....
Views: 2
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petitions for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals for the' Sixth Supreme Judicial District of the State of Texas denied....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia denied because of failure to submit the petition within the time prescribed by the rule....
Views: 0
Petition for a. writ of certiorari to the Supremo *725Court of the State of New York denied bécause of failure to file the petition within the time prescribed by the statute. Mr. Maurice C. Spratt for petitioner. Mr. Edward H. Letchworfh for respondent. [See post, 739.]...
Views: 0
Dismissed with costs, on motion of counsel for plaintiff in error....
Views: 0
Dismissed with costs, on motion of counsel for appellant....
Views: 0
Dismissed, per stipulation....
Views: 0
Dismissed with costs, per stipulation....
Views: 0
Dismissed, per stipulation....
Views: 0
Dismissed, on motion of counsel for petitioners....
Views: 0
Dismissed, on motion of counsel for. petitioner....
Views: 0
Dismissed pursuant to the 28th Rule....
Views: 0
No appearance for respondent....
Views: 5
No opinion found. Click here to view source material....
Views: 0
Motion to modify decree denied May 29, 1922.[See 258 U. S. 82.]...
Views: 1
No brief filed for respondents and defendants in error....
Views: 0
No opinion found. Click here to view source material....
Views: 0
No opinion found. Click here to view source material....
Views: 2
No opinion found. Click here to view source material....
Views: 0
No opinion found. Click here to view source material....
Views: 0
No opinion found. Click here to view source material....
Views: 0
Motion requesting the court to deliver an opinion in this case denied....
Views: 0
Motion for leave to file petition for a writ of habeas corpus herein denied....
Views: 0
Motion for leave to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus denied....
Views: 0
Motion for leave to defer reprinting previous record on application for certiorari granted. Motion for leave to file petition, for writ of mandamus herein denied....
Views: 0
Motion for leave to file petition for a writ of mandamus herein denied....
Views: 0
Motion for lehve to file petition for a writ of mandamus herein denied....
Views: 0
*632Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appéals for the Second Circuit granted. Mr. Solicitor General Beck, by leave of court, filed a brief as amicus curice....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Order entered making allowance to commissioner appointed to take and return testimony in this cause for his services and his expenses....
Views: 3
Petition for a writ of certiorari to. the Kansas City ^ Court of Appeals of the State of Missouri granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ *632of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit granted. Mr. Solicitor General Beck, Mr. Blackburn Ésterline, Mr. W. H. Fuller, Mr. Adrien F. Busick and Mr. Eugene W. Burr for petitioner. No brief filed for respondent....
Views: 0
Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi granted....
Views: 0

Non-Government Works Copyright © 2001-2026 Think Computer Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

About   Apps, Extensions & AI   System Status   Privacy   Security   Contact Us

ⓘ Information Facts

Sign In Sign Up
Issues Laws Cases News Firms Entities Pro
Sign In Sign Up