The Federal Reporter, Volume 152West Publishing Company, 1907 - 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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... railroad company . We held that the patent to the riparian owner , issued before the date of the last survey , conveyed to him the title to the island . " The case of Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Company v . Butler was one in which ...
... railroad company . We held that the patent to the riparian owner , issued before the date of the last survey , conveyed to him the title to the island . " The case of Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad Company v . Butler was one in which ...
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... railroad in accordance with specifications which by their terms were made a part thereof , and which provided , inter alia , for monthly payments based on approximate esti- mates made by the engineers of the railroad company , a certain ...
... railroad in accordance with specifications which by their terms were made a part thereof , and which provided , inter alia , for monthly payments based on approximate esti- mates made by the engineers of the railroad company , a certain ...
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... RAILROAD WORK BY ENGINEER - IMPEACHMENT FOR FRAUD . A very high degree of proof is required to impeach the decision of a railroad engineer as to amount and classification of the work done by a contractor on the ground of fraud or bad ...
... RAILROAD WORK BY ENGINEER - IMPEACHMENT FOR FRAUD . A very high degree of proof is required to impeach the decision of a railroad engineer as to amount and classification of the work done by a contractor on the ground of fraud or bad ...
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... railroad company , according to which Foley Bros. were paid , as well as the Cook Bros. , then it will be for the jury to ascertain what the amount of the material really was , and its proper classification . " In that case you have the ...
... railroad company , according to which Foley Bros. were paid , as well as the Cook Bros. , then it will be for the jury to ascertain what the amount of the material really was , and its proper classification . " In that case you have the ...
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... Railroad v . O'Brien , 119 U. S. 99 , 7 Sup . Ct . 172 , 30 L. Ed . 299 ) , yet it is equally as well established by the decisions of the federal.courts that no judgment will be reversed for error when it is clear such error did not ...
... Railroad v . O'Brien , 119 U. S. 99 , 7 Sup . Ct . 172 , 30 L. Ed . 299 ) , yet it is equally as well established by the decisions of the federal.courts that no judgment will be reversed for error when it is clear such error did not ...
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Page 726 - Any person who shall be injured in his business or property by any other person or corporation by reason of anything forbidden or declared to be unlawful by this act may sue therefor in any Circuit Court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover three-fold the damages by him sustained, and the costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee. Sec. 8. That the word "person,
Page 272 - ... from any place in the United States to an adjacent foreign country, or from any place in the United States...
Page 218 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations, other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 291 - Whenever it shall appear to the court before which any proceeding under section four of this act may be pending, that the ends of justice require that other parties should be brought before the court, the court may cause them to be summoned, whether they reside in the district in which the court is held or not ; and subpoenas to that end may be served in any district by the marshal thereof.
Page 402 - That if the owner of any vessel transporting merchandise or property to or from any port in the United States of America shall exercise due diligence to make the said vessel in all respects seaworthy and properly manned, equipped, and supplied...
Page 214 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 687 - ... and the act, neglect or default is such as would (if death had not ensued) have entitled the party injured to maintain an action and recover damages in respect thereof, then and in every such case the person who would have been liable if death had not ensued shall be liable to an action for damages, notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and although the death shall have been caused under such circumstances as amount in law to felony.
Page 127 - A person shall be deemed to have given a preference if, being insolvent, he has procured or suffered a judgment to be entered against himself in favor of any person, or made a transfer of- any of his property, and the effect of the enforcement of such judgment or transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such creditors of the same class.
Page 102 - In the following cases the agreement is invalid, unless the same or some note or memorandum thereof be in writing, and subscribed by the party charged, or by his agent.
Page 392 - The act of a third person, intervening and contributing a condition necessary to the injurious effect of the original negligence, will not excuse the first wrongdoer, if such act ought to have been foreseen. The original negligence still remains a culpable and direct cause of the injury. The test is to be found in the probable injurious consequences which were to be anticipated, not in the number of subsequent events and agencies which might arise.