The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad Cases in the Courts of Last Resort in America and EnglandLawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson Edward Thompson Company, 1885 Covers cases decided [1879?]-1895. |
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... charter which merely confers upon the corporation a new right or enlarges an old one without imposing any new or additional burden upon it , is a mere license or promise by the State , and may be revoked at pleasure . It is without ...
... charter which merely confers upon the corporation a new right or enlarges an old one without imposing any new or additional burden upon it , is a mere license or promise by the State , and may be revoked at pleasure . It is without ...
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... charter , used the adjacent streets , viz . Filbert , Twenty - third and Walnut , for the purpose of avoiding said obstruction , their tracks having been laid on Twenty - second Street , south of Walnut , and on the same street north of ...
... charter , used the adjacent streets , viz . Filbert , Twenty - third and Walnut , for the purpose of avoiding said obstruction , their tracks having been laid on Twenty - second Street , south of Walnut , and on the same street north of ...
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... charter was to protect complainants from loss by competition , which would not occur here ; that the construction maintained by complainants would close Chestnut and Walnut streets to roads running north and south , and all other roads ...
... charter was to protect complainants from loss by competition , which would not occur here ; that the construction maintained by complainants would close Chestnut and Walnut streets to roads running north and south , and all other roads ...
Σελίδα 5
... charter is granted by several Acts , and there is no acceptance nor subscription to stock until after the last Act is passed , such charter should be considered as a unit , for it is the acceptance which creates the inviolable contract ...
... charter is granted by several Acts , and there is no acceptance nor subscription to stock until after the last Act is passed , such charter should be considered as a unit , for it is the acceptance which creates the inviolable contract ...
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... charter , and , 2d . That the appellants , having elected under their charter to occupy certain streets with their tracks to avoid the obstruction at Twenty - second and Market , cannot , now that said obstruction has been removed ...
... charter , and , 2d . That the appellants , having elected under their charter to occupy certain streets with their tracks to avoid the obstruction at Twenty - second and Market , cannot , now that said obstruction has been removed ...
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Σελίδα 559 - All courts shall be open, and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial, or delay.
Σελίδα 646 - To exercise by its board of directors or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt; by receiving deposits; by buying and selling exchange, coin, and bullion; by loaning money on personal security; and by obtaining, issuing, and circulating notes according to the provisions of this title.
Σελίδα 323 - Office ; 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...
Σελίδα 532 - Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special act, except for municipal purposes. All laws passed pursuant to this section may be amended, altered, or repealed.
Σελίδα 105 - ... which the route of its road shall intersect or touch ; but the company shall restore the stream or water-course, street, highway, plank road and turnpike thus intersected or touched, to its former state, or to such state as not unnecessarily to have impaired its usefulness.
Σελίδα 271 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free...
Σελίδα 397 - The party holding the affirmative of the issue must produce the evidence to prove it; therefore, the burden of proof lies on the party who would be defeated if no evidence were given on either side.
Σελίδα 331 - We think, then, that, when a question, to which the judicial power of the union is extended by the constitution, forms an ingredient of the original cause, it is in the power of congress to give the circuit courts jurisdiction of that cause, although other questions of fact or of law may be involved in it.
Σελίδα 326 - L. 78) declares, 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 costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners ; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State.
Σελίδα 331 - The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...