United States Supreme Court Reports, Volume 46Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, 1926 Complete with headnotes, summaries of decisions, statements of cases, points and authorities of counsel, annotations, tables, and parallel references. |
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... parties we have named and upon the issues just stated it is free from doubt that it was decided that Andrews & [ 235 ] ... parties , as above stated , were de- termined , yet , as the decree entered by the circuit court failed to express ...
... parties we have named and upon the issues just stated it is free from doubt that it was decided that Andrews & [ 235 ] ... parties , as above stated , were de- termined , yet , as the decree entered by the circuit court failed to express ...
Page 193
... parties to a contract will he sought out and enforced . But both these elementary principles are subordinate to and qualified by the doctrine that neither by comity nor by the will of contracting parties can the public policy of a ...
... parties to a contract will he sought out and enforced . But both these elementary principles are subordinate to and qualified by the doctrine that neither by comity nor by the will of contracting parties can the public policy of a ...
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... parties have made certain terms and conditions on which their con- tract shall continue or terminate , courts may not make a contract for the parties . Their function and duty consist simply in enforcing and carrying out the one ...
... parties have made certain terms and conditions on which their con- tract shall continue or terminate , courts may not make a contract for the parties . Their function and duty consist simply in enforcing and carrying out the one ...
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... parties , and the extent and manner of their under- taking , was reduced to writing ; and all oral testimony of a previous colloquium between the parties , or of conversation or declarations at the time when it was completed , or after ...
... parties , and the extent and manner of their under- taking , was reduced to writing ; and all oral testimony of a previous colloquium between the parties , or of conversation or declarations at the time when it was completed , or after ...
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... parties a verbal contract , but that there is an entire absence of any authority on the part of the president to make such waiver or give such verbal assent . He was an agent , with powers strictly limited and defined , and could not ...
... parties a verbal contract , but that there is an entire absence of any authority on the part of the president to make such waiver or give such verbal assent . He was an agent , with powers strictly limited and defined , and could not ...
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Page 99 - 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.
Page 393 - ... 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 101 - We hold, however, that the basis of all calculations as to the reasonableness of rates to be charged by a corporation maintaining a highway under legislative sanction must be the fair value of the property being used by it for the convenience of the public. And, in order to ascertain that value, the original cost of construction, the amount expended in permanent improvements, the amount and market value of Its bonds and stock, the present as compared with the original cost of construction, the probable...
Page 156 - Acts of bankruptcy by a person shall consist of his having (1) conveyed, transferred, concealed, or removed, or permitted to be concealed or removed, any part of his property with intent to hinder, delay, or defraud his creditors; or (2) transferred, while insolvent, any portion of his property to one or more of his creditors with intent to prefer such creditors over his other creditors...
Page 331 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 291 - That if any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act shall, directly or indirectly, by any special rate, rebate, drawback, or other device, charge, demand, collect •or receive from any person or persons a greater or less compensation...
Page 216 - ... no officer, agent, or other representative of this company shall have power to waive any provision or condition of this policy, except as such as by the terms of this policy may be subject of agreement indorsed hereon or added hereto...
Page 277 - ... of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restriction. All exceptions, therefore, to the full and complete power of a nation within its own territories must be traced up to the consent of the nation itself. They can flow from no other legitimate source.
Page 100 - If the company is deprived of the power of charging reasonable rates for the use of its property, and such deprivation takes place in the absence of an investigation by judicial machinery, it is deprived of the lawful use of its property, and thus, in substance and effect, of the property itself, without due process of law and in violation of the Constitution of the United States...
Page 430 - AN ACT to provide for the adjustment of land grants made by Congress to aid in the construction of railroads, and for the forfeiture of unearned lands, and for other purposes.