The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], Volume 36Abraham Clark Freeman Bancroft-Whitney Company, 1894 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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Page 22
... paid , and thereupon the loan was continued and the lease renewed for another year ; that before the expiration of this year the property was in- jured by fire , and the sum of ten thousand three hundred and ninety - five dollars was paid ...
... paid , and thereupon the loan was continued and the lease renewed for another year ; that before the expiration of this year the property was in- jured by fire , and the sum of ten thousand three hundred and ninety - five dollars was paid ...
Page 25
... paid , " citing Siter's Appeal , 26 Pa . St. 178. We are of opin- ion that upon the exercise of its option to redeem , the appel- lee's equitable title reverted back to the date of the original agreement , and appellee became the owner ...
... paid , " citing Siter's Appeal , 26 Pa . St. 178. We are of opin- ion that upon the exercise of its option to redeem , the appel- lee's equitable title reverted back to the date of the original agreement , and appellee became the owner ...
Page 49
... paid but one freight to the defendant while the business of the nail company paid not only that freight , to wit . , for hauling the coal to the nail works , but also , in addition to that , another and entirely indepen- dent freight to ...
... paid but one freight to the defendant while the business of the nail company paid not only that freight , to wit . , for hauling the coal to the nail works , but also , in addition to that , another and entirely indepen- dent freight to ...
Page 52
... paid upon the coal they buy , the revenue to be derived from that coal is at an end . Not so however with the revenue from the coal that is carried to the manufacturers . That coal is consumed on the prem- ises in the creation of an ...
... paid upon the coal they buy , the revenue to be derived from that coal is at an end . Not so however with the revenue from the coal that is carried to the manufacturers . That coal is consumed on the prem- ises in the creation of an ...
Page 59
... paid under agreements between Audenried & Co. and the defendant , made at the beginning of the season , and to continue throughout the season , and the referee was of opinion , and so found , that these contracts for continuous ...
... paid under agreements between Audenried & Co. and the defendant , made at the beginning of the season , and to continue throughout the season , and the referee was of opinion , and so found , that these contracts for continuous ...
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Page 403 - ... 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. When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 56 - ... like and contemporaneous service in the transportation of a like kind of traffic under substantially similar circumstances and conditions, such common carrier shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimination, which is hereby prohibited and declared to be unlawful.
Page 958 - Class legislation, discriminating against some and favoring others, is prohibited, but legislation which, in carrying out a public purpose, is limited in its application, if within the sphere of its operation it affects alike all persons similarly situated, is not within /the amendment.
Page 201 - When the Revolution took place the people of each State became themselves sovereign, and in that character hold the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government.
Page 437 - The citizens of each of the contracting parties shall have power to dispose of their personal goods within the jurisdiction of the other, by sale, donation, testament or otherwise...
Page 746 - One who gains a thing by fraud, accident, mistake, undue influence, the violation of a trust, or other wrongful act, is, unless he has some other and better right thereto, an involuntary trustee of the thing gained, for the benefit of the person who would otherwise have had it.
Page 324 - 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 203 - ... comprehend that commerce which is completely internal, which is carried on between man and man in a State, or between different parts of the same State, and which does not extend to or affect other States. Such a power would be inconvenient, and is certainly unnecessary. Comprehensive as the word " among " is, it may very properly be restricted to that commerce which concerns more States than one.
Page 520 - That the common law of England, so far as the same is applicable and of a general nature...
Page 588 - It is therefore manifest that exemption of Federal agencies from State taxation is dependent, not upon the nature of the agents, or upon the mode of their constitution, or upon the fact that they are agents, but upon the effect of the tax; that is, upon the question whether the tax does in truth deprive them of power to serve the Government as they were intended to serve it. or does hinder the efficient exercise of their power.