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... Erie for his own in the succeeding autumn . As the annual meeting of the cor- poration approached , three parties were found in the field con- tending for control of the road . One party was represented by Drew , and might be called the ...
... Erie for his own in the succeeding autumn . As the annual meeting of the cor- poration approached , three parties were found in the field con- tending for control of the road . One party was represented by Drew , and might be called the ...
Page 14
... Erie . As the election day drew near , Erie was of course for sale . A controlling interest of stockholders stood ready to sell their proxies , with entire impartiality , to any of the three contend- ing parties , or to any man who ...
... Erie . As the election day drew near , Erie was of course for sale . A controlling interest of stockholders stood ready to sell their proxies , with entire impartiality , to any of the three contend- ing parties , or to any man who ...
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... Erie party looking to a practi- cal consolidation on certain terms of the Pennsylvania Central , the Erie , and the New York Central , and a division among the contracting parties of all the earnings from the New York City travel . A ...
... Erie party looking to a practi- cal consolidation on certain terms of the Pennsylvania Central , the Erie , and the New York Central , and a division among the contracting parties of all the earnings from the New York City travel . A ...
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... Erie party very freely and openly expressed a decided lack of respect , and something approaching contempt , for the purity of that particular frag- ment of the judicial ermine which was supposed to adorn the person of Mr. Justice ...
... Erie party very freely and openly expressed a decided lack of respect , and something approaching contempt , for the purity of that particular frag- ment of the judicial ermine which was supposed to adorn the person of Mr. Justice ...
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... Erie party broke ground in a new suit . junction was no sooner asked of Judge Balcom than it was granted , and Mr. Frank Work , the Attorney - General , and all other parties litigant , were directed to show cause at Cortland- ville on ...
... Erie party broke ground in a new suit . junction was no sooner asked of Judge Balcom than it was granted , and Mr. Frank Work , the Attorney - General , and all other parties litigant , were directed to show cause at Cortland- ville on ...
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Page 354 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. " An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk: from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. " He dried his wings: like gauze they grew Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Page 423 - The general assembly shall pass laws to correct abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads in this state, and enforce such laws by adequate penalties, to the extent, if necessary for that purpose, of forfeiture of their property and franchises.
Page 182 - I once before took leave to remind your Lordships — which was unnecessary, but there are many whom it may be needful to remind — that an advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other.
Page 423 - Railways heretofore constructed or that may hereafter be constructed in* this State are hereby declared public highways, and shall be free to all persons for the transportation of their persons and property thereon, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law.
Page 25 - ... and the directors of the company may confer on any holder of any bond issued for money borrowed as aforesaid, the right to convert the principal due or owing thereon, into stock of said company, at any time not less than two nor more than twelve years from the date of the bond, under such regulations as the directors may see fit to adopt...
Page 221 - That some ten years ago being in Virginia, and taken prisoner by the power of Powhatan their chief...
Page 182 - OTHER. To save that client by all expedient means, to protect that client at all hazards and costs to all others, and among others to himself, is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties ; and he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring on any other.
Page 200 - At his entrance before the King, all the people gave a great shout. The Queene of Appamatuck was appointed to bring him water to wash his hands, and another brought him a bunch of feathers, instead of a towel to dry them.
Page 423 - No railroad corporation shall issue any stock or bonds, except for money, labor, or property actually received and applied to the purposes for which such corporation was created; and all stock dividends, and other fictitious increase of capital stock or indebtedness of any such corporation, shall be void. The capital stock of no railroad corporation shall be increased for any purpose, except upon giving sixty days public notice, in such manner as may be provided by law.
Page 222 - Elizabeth, such his perils, preservations, dangers, deliverances, they seem to most men above belief, to some beyond truth. Yet have we two witnesses to attest them, the prose and the pictures, both in his own book; and it soundeth much to the diminution of his deeds that he alone is the herald to publish and proclaim them.