| Law - 1920 - 496 pages
...service corporation not bound by its contract.1 The court said, citing Manigault v. Springs,2 that "It is the settled law of this court that the interdiction...obligation of contracts does not prevent the state from (properly) exercising such powers * * * for the general good of the public though contracts previously... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 2026 pages
...Manlgault v. Springs, 199 US 473, 4SO 126 Sup. Ct. 127, 130 (50 L. Ed. 274)1, it was declared that: " 'It is the settled law of this court that the Interdiction of statutes 1mpairing the obligation of contracts does not prevent the state from' properly exercising Its police... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1916 - 1108 pages
...down in Mnnigault v. Springs, 199 US 473, 26 Sup. Ct 127, 50 L. Ed. 274, in the following language: "It is the settled law of this court that the interdiction...the common weal, or are necessary for the general Rood of the public, though contracts previously entered into between individuals may thereby be affected.... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 926 pages
...down in Manigault v. Spring, 199 US 473 [26 Sup. Ct. 127. 50 L. Ed. 274], in the following language: 'It is the settled law of this court that the interdiction...from exercising such powers as are vested in it for tb» promotion of the common weal, or are necessary for the general good of the public, though contracts... | |
| Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 932 pages
...Manigault v. Springs, 199 US 473, 480, 20 Sup. Ct. 127, 130, 50 L. Ed. 274, it was declared that: " 'It is the settled law of this court that the interdiction...obligation of contracts does not prevent the state from properly exercising such powers as are vested in it for the promotion of the common weal, or are necessary... | |
| Joseph Asbury Joyce - Actions and defenses - 1910 - 962 pages
...power by the States arc not imposed by the due process of law clause of the Federal Constitution. 82 So the interdiction of statutes impairing the obligation of contracts does not prevent a State from properly exercising its police powers for the public good notwithstanding contracts previously... | |
| Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols - Law reports, digests, etc - 1915 - 1290 pages
...on the police power." State ex rel. Barker v. Kansas City Gas Co. 254 Mo. 515, 534, 535, 163 SW 854. "It is the settled law of this court that the interdiction...of statutes impairing the obligation of contracts docs not prevent the state from exercising such powers as are vested in it for the promotion of the... | |
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