United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 291United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1934 - Courts |
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... respondent . MR . JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court . This case comes here on certiorari to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of North Dakota involving the application of certain provisions of the Bankruptcy Act ...
... respondent . MR . JUSTICE STONE delivered the opinion of the Court . This case comes here on certiorari to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of North Dakota involving the application of certain provisions of the Bankruptcy Act ...
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... respondent . MR . JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court . A. C. Whitcomb , a resident of California , died in 1889 , and by his will , probated in that State , gave the residue of his estate in trust , one - third of the ...
... respondent . MR . JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court . A. C. Whitcomb , a resident of California , died in 1889 , and by his will , probated in that State , gave the residue of his estate in trust , one - third of the ...
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... respondent concurs . But conversely , says the petitioner , if in any year the beneficiary is actually paid more than is properly distributable to him , he should not return and pay tax on the excess to which he was not entitled . The ...
... respondent concurs . But conversely , says the petitioner , if in any year the beneficiary is actually paid more than is properly distributable to him , he should not return and pay tax on the excess to which he was not entitled . The ...
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... respondent suggests that income distributable within the meaning of the section is income which was reasonably regarded by the parties as distributable at the time it was distributed . We think such a construction would do violence to ...
... respondent suggests that income distributable within the meaning of the section is income which was reasonably regarded by the parties as distributable at the time it was distributed . We think such a construction would do violence to ...
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... respondent reads the language as making the terms of the trust instrument controlling where there is one , and resorting to an order only where there is no instrument governing payments of income ; and he adverts to the language of sub ...
... respondent reads the language as making the terms of the trust instrument controlling where there is one , and resorting to an order only where there is no instrument governing payments of income ; and he adverts to the language of sub ...
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Page 524 - ... happiness and prosperity of its people, and to provide for its general welfare, by any and every act of legislation, which it may deem to be conducive to these ends; where the power over the particular subject, or the manner of its exercise is not surrendered or restrained, in the manner just stated, That all those powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what may perhaps, more properly be called internal police, are not thus surrendered or restrained; and that, consequently, in...
Page 213 - Provided, That no such employee who may be injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.
Page 462 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to promote, encourage, and develop water transportation, service, and facilities in connection with commerce of the United States, and to foster and preserve in full vigor both rail and water transportation.
Page 488 - Where before the expiration of the time prescribed in section 275 for the assessment of the tax, both the Commissioner and the taxpayer have consented in writing to its assessment after such time, the tax may be assessed at any time prior to the expiration of the period agreed upon.
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Page 222 - Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 503 - So far as the requirement of due process is concerned, and in the absence of other constitutional restriction, a State is free to adopt whatever economic policy may reasonably be deemed to promote public welfare, and to enforce that policy by legislation adapted to its purpose.
Page 503 - It is clear that there is no closed class or category of businesses affected with a public interest, and the function of courts in the application of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments is to determine in each case whether circumstances vindicate the challenged regulation as a reasonable exertion of governmental authority or condemn it as arbitrary or discriminatory. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations, 262 US 522, 535. The phrase "affected with a public interest...
Page 536 - affected with a public interest' can, in the nature of things, mean no more than that an industry, for adequate reason, is subject to control for the public good.
Page 148 - It being understood that all the water communications and all the usual portages along the line from Lake Superior to the Lake of the Woods, and also Grand Portage, from the shore of Lake Superior to the Pigeon River, as now actually used, shall be free and open to the use of the citizens and subjects of both countries.