The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Volumes 45-46West Publishing Company, 1891 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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... steamer conveying the same . " The bills aver that the commerce interfered with is interstate , and that the common council have no authority from the charter to pass it , and that it is unreasonable , unequal , and unjust . We do not ...
... steamer conveying the same . " The bills aver that the commerce interfered with is interstate , and that the common council have no authority from the charter to pass it , and that it is unreasonable , unequal , and unjust . We do not ...
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... steamer , and received considerable dam- age , for which the above action was brought . I am satisfied that at the time of the collision the wheels of the ferry - boat were stopped , and that one - half her length was within her slip ...
... steamer , and received considerable dam- age , for which the above action was brought . I am satisfied that at the time of the collision the wheels of the ferry - boat were stopped , and that one - half her length was within her slip ...
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... steamers that ply between Portland and San Francisco , two of which , he told the master , were coming down the river that night ; and also back and out of the range of Coffin Rock light . He directed the hanging of the anchor light ...
... steamers that ply between Portland and San Francisco , two of which , he told the master , were coming down the river that night ; and also back and out of the range of Coffin Rock light . He directed the hanging of the anchor light ...
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... steamer was well manned and furnished , and conducted with cau- tion , will excuse the steamer for coming in collision with the barge or sailing vessel , where the barge or sailing vessel is at anchor , or sailing in a thoroughfare out ...
... steamer was well manned and furnished , and conducted with cau- tion , will excuse the steamer for coming in collision with the barge or sailing vessel , where the barge or sailing vessel is at anchor , or sailing in a thoroughfare out ...
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... steamers about two or three months when the collision occurred . The conclusion having been reached that the collision was ... steamer that was expected down the river , to ring the bell if it came on thick or foggy , and , if anything ...
... steamers about two or three months when the collision occurred . The conclusion having been reached that the collision was ... steamer that was expected down the river , to ring the bell if it came on thick or foggy , and , if anything ...
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Page 604 - An Act to ascertain and settle the Private Land Claims in the State of California...
Page 397 - The practice, pleadings, 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 the court to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 274 - That the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 477 - I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.
Page 469 - Contract, then this obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force and effect, subject, however, to the following conditions: 1.
Page 347 - ... 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 423 - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Page 70 - A vessel under one hundred and fifty feet in length when at anchor shall carry forward, where it can best be seen, but at a height not exceeding twenty feet above the hull, a white light, in a lantern so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least one mile.
Page iii - The liability of the owner of any vessel for any embezzlement, loss or destruction by any person of any property, goods or merchandise, shipped or put on board of such vessel, or for any loss, damage or injury by collision, or for any act, matter or thing, loss, damage or forfeiture, done, occasioned or incurred, without the privity or knowledge of such owner or owners...
Page 77 - When the death of one is caused by the wrongful act or omission of another, the personal representatives of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action had he lived, against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission.