The Supreme Court Reporter, Volume 19West Publishing Company, 1899 |
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... assessment of $ 75,000 upon the stock- holders , which sum was all paid except $ 20 , - 000 assessed against Richard P. Thomas , the president of the bank . The prayer of the bill was that a decree might be entered holding Richard P ...
... assessment of $ 75,000 upon the stock- holders , which sum was all paid except $ 20 , - 000 assessed against Richard P. Thomas , the president of the bank . The prayer of the bill was that a decree might be entered holding Richard P ...
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... assess- ments upon the companies in order to pay the expenses of the association , and also for the appointment of commissioners and arbitrators , who were to decide matters coming before them . No one retiring from the agreement before ...
... assess- ments upon the companies in order to pay the expenses of the association , and also for the appointment of commissioners and arbitrators , who were to decide matters coming before them . No one retiring from the agreement before ...
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... assessment to correction . In the petition it was alleged that the only capital in any proper sense employed by the com- pany within the state of New York in the sale of its products was its leasehold of the ware- house and the office ...
... assessment to correction . In the petition it was alleged that the only capital in any proper sense employed by the com- pany within the state of New York in the sale of its products was its leasehold of the ware- house and the office ...
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... assessment were im- properly treated as business of the corpora- tion , whereas they should have been regarded as pertaining to the personal transactions of Mr. Clay , the company's agent . The true re- lation of Mr. Clay to the ...
... assessment were im- properly treated as business of the corpora- tion , whereas they should have been regarded as pertaining to the personal transactions of Mr. Clay , the company's agent . The true re- lation of Mr. Clay to the ...
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... assessment of its property for taxation , aft- er receiving notice of such assessment , on which appeal all legal evidence offered shall be heard by the court , affords an adequate rem- edy for any error or illegality in the assess ...
... assessment of its property for taxation , aft- er receiving notice of such assessment , on which appeal all legal evidence offered shall be heard by the court , affords an adequate rem- edy for any error or illegality in the assess ...
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Page 238 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where any title, right, privilege, or immunity is claimed under the constitution or any treaty or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such constitution, treaty, statute, commission, or authority...
Page 262 - ... 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 290 - ... the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise at the time of exportation to the United States, in the principal markets of the country from which the same has been imported...
Page 405 - No officer in any branch of the public service, or any other person whose salary, pay, or emoluments are fixed by law or regulations, shall receive any additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation, in any form whatever, for the disbursement of public money, or for any other service or duty whatever, unless the same is authorized by law, and the appropriation therefor explicitly states that it is for such additional pay, extra allowance, or compensation.
Page 159 - They may, however, be all comprehended under the following general heads: protection by the government; the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right to acquire and possess property of every kind, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety; subject nevertheless to such restraints as the government may justly prescribe for the general good of the whole.
Page 365 - 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 369 - In violation of that clause of the constitution of the state providing that "no county, city, township, school district, or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted In any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county taxes previous to the incurring of such Indebtedness.
Page 377 - ... that such suit does not really and substantially involve a dispute or controversy properly within the jurisdiction of said circuit court, or that the parties to said suit have been improperly or collusively made or joined, either as plaintiffs or defendants, for the purpose of creating a case, cognizable or removable under this act, the said circuit court shall proceed no further therein, but shall dismiss the suit or remand it to the court from which it was removed, as justice may require, and...
Page 238 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the constitution, treaties or laws of the United States...
Page 262 - ... and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or parts of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said alternate sections: ProOpinion of the Court.