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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... practices . But the appellant , in the enjoyment of the privilege , is engaged in its own behalf , not the govern- ment's , in the conduct of a private business for profit . It can no longer be thought that the enjoyment of a privilege ...
... practices . But the appellant , in the enjoyment of the privilege , is engaged in its own behalf , not the govern- ment's , in the conduct of a private business for profit . It can no longer be thought that the enjoyment of a privilege ...
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... practice of the collector's office was to treat such a claim as a stay of collection of unpaid taxes against which credit was asked , until the Commissioner had adjudged the claim ; and where the taxpayer had at first accepted without ...
... practice of the collector's office was to treat such a claim as a stay of collection of unpaid taxes against which credit was asked , until the Commissioner had adjudged the claim ; and where the taxpayer had at first accepted without ...
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... practice of the Bureau , the Commissioner proceeded to audit the returns to the end that the assess- ments might be increased or reduced according to the facts . In February , 1921 , the taxpayer signed and filed a waiver of any ...
... practice of the Bureau , the Commissioner proceeded to audit the returns to the end that the assess- ments might be increased or reduced according to the facts . In February , 1921 , the taxpayer signed and filed a waiver of any ...
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... practice of the Collector's office to treat such a claim as a stay of collection of unpaid taxes against which the credit was asked , until the Com- missioner had considered and adjusted the claim . On March 1 , 1924 , the Commissioner ...
... practice of the Collector's office to treat such a claim as a stay of collection of unpaid taxes against which the credit was asked , until the Com- missioner had considered and adjusted the claim . On March 1 , 1924 , the Commissioner ...
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... practice of selling , under the trade name of California White Pine , " lumber made from " Western Yellow Pine " ( Pinus ponderosa ) , finding it an unfair and prejudicial method of com- peting with lumber made from the true White Pines ...
... practice of selling , under the trade name of California White Pine , " lumber made from " Western Yellow Pine " ( Pinus ponderosa ) , finding it an unfair and prejudicial method of com- peting with lumber made from the true White Pines ...
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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 1 - That all levies, judgments, attachments, or other liens, obtained through legal proceedings against a person who is insolvent, at any time within four months prior to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against him, shall be deemed null and void in case he is adjudged a bankrupt...
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 105 - Even so, they are not of the very essence of a scheme of ordered liberty. To abolish them is not to violate a "principle of justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental.
Page 501 - 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 521 - But neither property rights nor contract rights are absolute ; for government cannot exist if the citizen may at will use his property to the detriment of his fellows, or exercise his freedom of contract to work them harm. Equally fundamental with the private right is that of the public to regulate it in the common interest.
Page 615 - In respect of any act or transaction of his in carrying on the business connected with such property, without the previous leave of the court in which euch receiver or manager was appointed...
Page 501 - 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 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.
Page 184 - ... there shall be included in computing the net income of each beneficiary his distributive share, whether distributed or not, of the net income of the estate or trust for the taxable year...