The Federal Reporter, Volume 121West Publishing Company, 1903 - Law reports, digests, etc 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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... jury are instructed that if they find from the evidence that the rail- road companies used both the blocked and the unblocked frog , and that it is questionable which is the safest or most suitable for the business of the railroads ...
... jury are instructed that if they find from the evidence that the rail- road companies used both the blocked and the unblocked frog , and that it is questionable which is the safest or most suitable for the business of the railroads ...
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... jury to determine it , and also within the province of a jury to hold a railroad company accountable for a want of ordinary care amount- ing to culpable negligence if it fails to block its frogs , provided the triors of the fact are ...
... jury to determine it , and also within the province of a jury to hold a railroad company accountable for a want of ordinary care amount- ing to culpable negligence if it fails to block its frogs , provided the triors of the fact are ...
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... juries to decide . If in the beginning , instead of leaving these questions to the jury , where they rightfully belong , judges had taken it upon themselves to decide . that railroad companies were not required to do this thing or that ...
... juries to decide . If in the beginning , instead of leaving these questions to the jury , where they rightfully belong , judges had taken it upon themselves to decide . that railroad companies were not required to do this thing or that ...
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... jury could not tell from the evidence . The presump- tion is that he did ; and , if the court had given the special instructions asked , it would have been necessary to accompany it with the statement that there was no evidence upon the ...
... jury could not tell from the evidence . The presump- tion is that he did ; and , if the court had given the special instructions asked , it would have been necessary to accompany it with the statement that there was no evidence upon the ...
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... jury . At all events , if any point in the case had not been covered by the court's charge , or was not prop- erly presented , counsel for the plaintiff should have called the atten- tion of the court to the fact , and presented an ...
... jury . At all events , if any point in the case had not been covered by the court's charge , or was not prop- erly presented , counsel for the plaintiff should have called the atten- tion of the court to the fact , and presented an ...
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Page 582 - That all levies, judgments, attachments, or other liens obtained through legal proceedings against a person who is insolvent, at any time within four months prior to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against him, shall be deemed null and void in case he is adjudged a bankrupt...
Page 144 - Provided, that in actions by or against executors, administrators, or guardians, in which judgment may be rendered for or against them, neither party shall be allowed to testify against the other, as to any transaction with, or statement by, the testator, intestate, or ward, unless called to testify thereto by the opposite party, or required to testify thereto "2 Dan.
Page 260 - If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire, or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws...
Page 593 - ... made or intended to take effect, in possession or enjoyment after the death of the grantor...
Page 476 - ... upon a failure to comply with these conditions, the claim or mine upon which such failure occurred shall be open to relocation, in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made...
Page 252 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 575 - Every common carrier subject to the provisions of this Act shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable, proper, and equal facilities for the interchange of traffic between their respective lines, and for the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of passengers and property to and from their several lines and those connecting therewith...
Page 151 - If from any cause the conditions covered by this situation are such as to prevent immediate compliance with each other's signals, the misunderstanding or objection shall be at once made apparent by blowing the danger signal...
Page 663 - If a creditor has been preferred, and afterwards in good faith gives the debtor further credit without security of any kind for property which becomes a part of the debtor's...
Page 473 - May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until a patent has been issued therefor, not less than one hundred dollars' worth of labor shall be performed or improvements made during each year. On all claims located prior to the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten dollars...