The Federal Reporter, Volume 116West Publishing Company, 1902 - Law reports, digests, etc Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. |
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... agreed upon a verdict awarding to the plaintiff the full amount claimed , but the foreman , in announcing the verdict , for which purpose other business of the court was interrupted , omitted therefrom the amount of one of the policies ...
... agreed upon a verdict awarding to the plaintiff the full amount claimed , but the foreman , in announcing the verdict , for which purpose other business of the court was interrupted , omitted therefrom the amount of one of the policies ...
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... agreed to first look to the bankruptcy court for the payment of the note , and to hold the grocery company only for that portion which is not paid out of the dividends arising from the bankruptcy estate . This fact cannot , without ...
... agreed to first look to the bankruptcy court for the payment of the note , and to hold the grocery company only for that portion which is not paid out of the dividends arising from the bankruptcy estate . This fact cannot , without ...
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... agreed to be sold to him as an entirety , and the negotiations that were conducted , looking to that end , were all upon that basis . In those negotiations , Mr. Cummings and Mr. Synnott undertook to speak , not only for themselves ...
... agreed to be sold to him as an entirety , and the negotiations that were conducted , looking to that end , were all upon that basis . In those negotiations , Mr. Cummings and Mr. Synnott undertook to speak , not only for themselves ...
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... agreed the Atlantic Match Company should be sold . That interest , moreover , is special and personal , without regard to the two - eighths which Mr. Graham would have a right to ; and we do not need to go into a court of equity to ...
... agreed the Atlantic Match Company should be sold . That interest , moreover , is special and personal , without regard to the two - eighths which Mr. Graham would have a right to ; and we do not need to go into a court of equity to ...
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... agreed to tow this ship to New York , thus securing a tow both ways . Not long after leaving the breakwater a capsized schooner was discovered , whereupon the tug abandoned the Bianchi , and towed the schooner to Philadelphia . As a ...
... agreed to tow this ship to New York , thus securing a tow both ways . Not long after leaving the breakwater a capsized schooner was discovered , whereupon the tug abandoned the Bianchi , and towed the schooner to Philadelphia . As a ...
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Page 591 - No indictment is insufficient, nor can the trial, judgment, or other proceedings thereon be affected, by reason of a defect or imperfection in matter of form, which does not tend to the prejudice of the substantial rights of the defendant, upon the merits.
Page 650 - ... any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true, is guilty of perjury...
Page 699 - Where by any of these rules one of two vessels is to keep out of the way, the other shall keep her course and speed.
Page 711 - From the variety of cases relative to judgments being given in evidence in civil suits, these two deductions seem to follow as generally true: first, that the judgment of a court of concurrent jurisdiction, directly upon the point, is as a plea, a bar, or as evidence, conclusive, between the same parties, upon the same matter, directly in question in another court...
Page 623 - ... that the defendant is doing, or threatens, or is about to do, or is procuring or suffering to be done, some act in violation of the plaintiff's rights, respecting the subject of the action, and tending to render the judgment ineffectual, a temporary injunction may be granted, to restrain such act.
Page 136 - ... shall have power to impose and administer all necessary oaths or affirmations, and to punish by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of said courts, all contempts of authority in any cause or hearing before the same...
Page 67 - ... to exercise due diligence (to) properly equip, man, provision, and outfit said vessel, and to make said vessel seaworthy and capable of performing her intended voyage, or whereby the obligations of the master, officers, agents, or servants, to carefully handle and stow her cargo and to care for and properly deliver same, shall in any wise be lessened, weakened, or avoided.
Page 730 - Who is the sovereign, de jure or de facto, of a territory is not a judicial, but is a political question, the determination of which by the legislative and executive departments of any government conclusively binds the judges, as well as all other officers, citizens and subjects of that government. This principle has always been upheld by this court, and has been affirmed under a great variety of circumstances.
Page 48 - Claims shall not be proved against a bankrupt estate subsequent to one year after the adjudication; or if they are liquidated by litigation and the final judgment therein is rendered within thirty days before or after the expiration of such time, then within sixty days after the rendition of such judgment...
Page 687 - They are vested when there is a person in being who would have an immediate right to the possession of the lands upon the ceasing of the intermediate or precedent estate.