The Federal Reporter, Volume 203West Publishing Company, 1913 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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... Trial ( § 177 * ) — QUESTIONS OF LAW OR FACT - DIRECTION OF VERDICT - Mo- TION BY BOTH PARTIES . A motion by both parties for a directed verdict constitutes a stipula- tion that there are no issues of fact for the jury and authorizes ...
... Trial ( § 177 * ) — QUESTIONS OF LAW OR FACT - DIRECTION OF VERDICT - Mo- TION BY BOTH PARTIES . A motion by both parties for a directed verdict constitutes a stipula- tion that there are no issues of fact for the jury and authorizes ...
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... trial . It must be obvious that this case could have been tried in one of two ways : Either ( 1 ) Bushby could have been content with proving his asserted claim of approximately $ 8,000 and the ap- parently fraudulent nature of the ...
... trial . It must be obvious that this case could have been tried in one of two ways : Either ( 1 ) Bushby could have been content with proving his asserted claim of approximately $ 8,000 and the ap- parently fraudulent nature of the ...
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... trial court . With reference , however , to the taxing of costs , we deem the rule laid down by Judge Jenkins in Eastman et al . v . Sherry ( C. C. ) 37 Fed . 844 , to be the correct one . In that case the witness also presented himself ...
... trial court . With reference , however , to the taxing of costs , we deem the rule laid down by Judge Jenkins in Eastman et al . v . Sherry ( C. C. ) 37 Fed . 844 , to be the correct one . In that case the witness also presented himself ...
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... trial . The District Judge , however , held the lighter primarily liable in rem because her owners had relied upon Metcalfe's personal promise to furnish covers , for which promise the Steamship Company was not responsible . He drew ...
... trial . The District Judge , however , held the lighter primarily liable in rem because her owners had relied upon Metcalfe's personal promise to furnish covers , for which promise the Steamship Company was not responsible . He drew ...
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... trial court submitted this issue to the jury very clearly - certainly in such a way that the city can have no ground of complaint and makes no complaint on this account . The verdict of the jury being against the city necessarily ...
... trial court submitted this issue to the jury very clearly - certainly in such a way that the city can have no ground of complaint and makes no complaint on this account . The verdict of the jury being against the city necessarily ...
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Page 452 - The trustee of the estate of a bankrupt, upon his appointment and qualification, and his successor or successors, if he shall have one or more, upon his or their appointment and qualification, shall in turn be vested by operation of law with the title of the bankrupt as of the date he was adjudged a bankrupt except in so far as it is to property which is exempt...
Page 138 - All complaints for the recovery of damages shall be filed with the Commission within two years from the time the cause of action accrues, and not after...
Page 535 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.
Page 325 - And in establishing such through route, the commission shall not require any company, without its consent, to embrace in such route substantially less than the entire length of its railroad, and of any intermediate railroad operated in conjunction and under a common management or control therewith which lies between the termini of such proposed through route, unless to do so would make such through route unreasonably long as compared with another practicable through route which could otherwise be...
Page 535 - ... whistle, not less than four, and under no circumstances shall the vessel astern attempt to pass the vessel ahead until such time as they have reached a point where it can be safely done, when said vessel ahead shall signify her willingness by blowing the proper signals. The vessel ahead shall in no case attempt to cross the bow or crowd upon the course of the passing vessel.
Page 584 - ... procured or suffered a judgment to be entered against himself in favor of any person, or made a transfer of any of his property, and the effect of the enforcement of such judgment or transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such creditors of the same class.
Page 534 - ... or if she shall desire to pass on the left or port side of the vessel ahead, she shall give two short blasts...
Page 160 - Commission ; and if any carrier, person, or corporation subject to the provisions of this Act shall fail to make and file said annual reports within the time above specified, or within the time extended by the Commission for making and filing the same, or shall fail to make specific answer to any question authorized by the provisions of this section within thirty days from, the time it is lawfully required so to do, such parties shall forfeit to the United States the sum of one hundred dollars for...
Page 62 - ... as to all property in the custody or coming into the custody of the.bankruptcy court, shall be deemed vested with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a creditor holding a lien by legal or equitable proceedings thereon; and also, as to all property not in the custody of the bankruptcy court, shall be deemed vested with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a judgment creditor holding an execution duly returned unsatisfied...
Page 213 - Suits by the trustee shall only be brought or prosecuted in the courts where the bankrupt, whose estate is being administered by such trustee, might have brought or prosecuted them if proceedings in bankruptcy had not been instituted, unless by consent of the proposed defendant.