The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Volumes 47-48West Publishing Company, 1892 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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... defendant corporation to remove a cause to the federal court does not waive an objection that the summons was served upon one who was not the company's agent , and such question may be presented to the federal court for decision ...
... defendant corporation to remove a cause to the federal court does not waive an objection that the summons was served upon one who was not the company's agent , and such question may be presented to the federal court for decision ...
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... defendant's solicitor the examination was further post- poned to March 30th . On that day , at the request of the solicitor of the defendant , the examination was again postponed until the 1st day of April . On that day the examination ...
... defendant's solicitor the examination was further post- poned to March 30th . On that day , at the request of the solicitor of the defendant , the examination was again postponed until the 1st day of April . On that day the examination ...
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... defendant company was fraudulently diverted and used by Barse and Bullis in the construction of the unauthorized lines aforesaid ; that the individual defendants own a controlling interest in the stock of the defendant company , and ...
... defendant company was fraudulently diverted and used by Barse and Bullis in the construction of the unauthorized lines aforesaid ; that the individual defendants own a controlling interest in the stock of the defendant company , and ...
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... defendant company , or brought the same to the attention of the di- rectors or stockholders for action . Complainant's counsel have argued that the rule does not apply ; that this suit is not one in which the cor- poration is in any ...
... defendant company , or brought the same to the attention of the di- rectors or stockholders for action . Complainant's counsel have argued that the rule does not apply ; that this suit is not one in which the cor- poration is in any ...
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... defendant , proof of a judgment rendered against defendant and another person is a fatal variance , and there can be no recovery thereunder . 2. SAME - PLEADING - GENERAL DENIAL . In an action on a judgment a general denial under the ...
... defendant , proof of a judgment rendered against defendant and another person is a fatal variance , and there can be no recovery thereunder . 2. SAME - PLEADING - GENERAL DENIAL . In an action on a judgment a general denial under the ...
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Page 192 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 637 - Property does become clothed with a public interest when used in a manner to make it of public consequence, and affect the community at large. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 682 - State, and whenever, on the line thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office...
Page 194 - the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes, in the circuit and district courts shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the state within which such circuit or district courts are held, any rule of court to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 610 - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said company may adopt, through the territories of the United States...
Page 637 - Looking, then, to the common law, from whence came the right which the Constitution protects, we find that when private property is "affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris privati only.
Page 630 - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, but where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant...
Page 742 - An assignment, grant or conveyance shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser or mortgagee for a valuable consideration, without notice, unless it is recorded in the Patent Office within three months from the date thereof or prior to such subsequent purchase or mortgage.
Page 610 - It passes through any state, and whenever on the line thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from pre-emption or other claims or rights at the time the line of said road Is definitely fixed...
Page 302 - ... lands being mineral, and not subject to entry under existing laws of the United States, except for mineral entry, in either of said States, Territories, or districts, of which such citizens or persons may be at the time...