United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court, Volume 142United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1892 - Courts |
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Page 80
... legislature in 1877 incorporated the New Orleans Water Works Company for the purpose of furnishing the inhabitants of the city with an adequate supply of pure water , granting it the exclusive privilege of furnishing water to the city ...
... legislature in 1877 incorporated the New Orleans Water Works Company for the purpose of furnishing the inhabitants of the city with an adequate supply of pure water , granting it the exclusive privilege of furnishing water to the city ...
Page 81
... ordinance , No. 909 , and said contract were not authorized by the act of 1884 ; that the legislature did not VOL . CXLII - 6 Statement of the Case . contemplate that the contract relations NEW ORLEANS v . N. O. WATER WORKS CO . 81.
... ordinance , No. 909 , and said contract were not authorized by the act of 1884 ; that the legislature did not VOL . CXLII - 6 Statement of the Case . contemplate that the contract relations NEW ORLEANS v . N. O. WATER WORKS CO . 81.
Page 83
... legislature of 1884 , be declared unconstitutional , null and void , and both parties be enjoined from setting up the contract as valid and binding . Exceptions were filed to this petition , which were sustained and the petition ...
... legislature of 1884 , be declared unconstitutional , null and void , and both parties be enjoined from setting up the contract as valid and binding . Exceptions were filed to this petition , which were sustained and the petition ...
Page 85
... legislature was releasing or extinguishing an obli- gation which had been ascertained , and defined by the Supreme Court of the State , from the Water Company to the city of New Orleans , within the meaning of the State constitutional ...
... legislature was releasing or extinguishing an obli- gation which had been ascertained , and defined by the Supreme Court of the State , from the Water Company to the city of New Orleans , within the meaning of the State constitutional ...
Page 87
... legislature to deprive the city of its right of ownership to the judgment in its favor waereby it was to be relieved from all amount exceed- ing the taxes due it by the Water Works Company . This is the only opinion which contains any ...
... legislature to deprive the city of its right of ownership to the judgment in its favor waereby it was to be relieved from all amount exceed- ing the taxes due it by the Water Works Company . This is the only opinion which contains any ...
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Page 367 - No county, city, township, school district or other municipal corporation, shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 659 - ... and if on such examination there shall be found among such passengers any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any person unable to take care of himself or herself without becoming a public charge...
Page 463 - ... may be removed into the Circuit Court of the United States for the proper district by the defendant or defendants therein being non-residents of that State...
Page 177 - The Commissioner of the General Land Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and sale of the public lands of the United States...
Page 227 - Constitution leads to the conclusion that no State has the right to lay a tax on interstate commerce in any form, whether by way of duties laid on the transportation of the subjects of that commerce, or on the receipts derived from that transportation, or on the occupation or business of carrying it on, and the reason is that such taxation is a burden on that commerce, and amounts to a regulation of it, which belongs solely to Congress.
Page 581 - But the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying. A person so testifying to the giving of a bribe which has been accepted, shall not thereafter be liable to indictment, prosecution, or punishment for that bribery, and may plead or prove the giving of testimony accordingly, in bar of such an indictment or prosecution.
Page 580 - Amendment; and compelling a man "in a criminal case to be a witness against himself," which is condemned In the Fifth Amendment, throws light on the question as to what is an "unreasonable search and seizure" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
Page 498 - The writ of mandamus may be denominated the writ of mandate.— 1873-345. 1085. It may be issued by any court, except a justice's or police court, to any inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person, to compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins, as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station...
Page 68 - Each director, when appointed or elected, shall take an oath that he will, so far as the duty devolves on him, diligently and honestly administer the affairs of such association...
Page 351 - Amendment, that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, was not intended to prevent a State from adjusting its system of taxation in all proper and reasonable ways.