 | Leslie Jay Tompkins - Corporation law - 1908 - 1188 pages
...whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear." In ricksburg, etc., RR Co. v. Dennis, 116 US 665, Mr. Justice Gray cited many authorities, quoting... | |
 | Virginia State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1909 - 428 pages
...Justice Marshall, in Providence Bank v. Billings, 4 Pet. 560, 29 L. 955: -Its abandonment ought not to he presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.' This rule is elementary, and the cases in our reports where this has been considered and applied are... | |
 | New York (State). Supreme Court. Appellate Division - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 1148 pages
...importance. * * * It would seem that the relinquishment of such a power is never to be assumed. * * * Its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear." ( Yazoo d? Mississippi Valley R. Co. v. Adams, 180 US 1 ; People ex rel. Westckester FI Co. v. Davenport,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 880 pages
...daily pass; the community have a right to insist, in the language of this court above quoted, 'that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in a case,...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 884 pages
...daily pass, the community have a right to insist, in the language of this court, above quoted, 'that its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of no great value if, by implications and presumptions,... | |
 | Thomas Carl Spelling - Interstate commerce - 1912 - 332 pages
...daily pass, the community have a right to insist, in the language of this court above quoted, 'that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in a case...purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear.' The continued existence of a government would be of no great value if by implications and presumptions... | |
 | James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 528 pages
...daily pass, the community have a right to insist, in the language of this court above quoted, "that its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear." The continued existence of a government would be of no great value, if by implications and presumptions... | |
 | William Mark McKinney, Burdett Alberto Rich - Law - 1914 - 1318 pages
...equivalent. If there is reasonable doubt, it must be resolved in favor of the existence of the power. Its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case...deliberate purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear,7 and therefore exemption from future general legislation either by a constitutional provision... | |
 | Eugene Wambaugh - Constitutional law - 1915 - 1106 pages
...whole community is interested in retaining it undiminished, that community has a right to insist that its abandonment ought not to be presumed, in a case...purpose of the state to abandon it does not appear. The plaintiffs would give to this charter the same construction as if it contained a clause exempting the... | |
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... that its abandonment ought not to be presumed in a case in which the deliberate purpose of the State to abandon it does not appear. 
