United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ... and Rules Announced at ..., Volume 236United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1915 - Courts |
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... enforced by the State ; and upon these matters this court cannot in the proper performance of its duty yield its judgment to that of the state court . A statutory provision which is not a legitimate police regulation can- not be made ...
... enforced by the State ; and upon these matters this court cannot in the proper performance of its duty yield its judgment to that of the state court . A statutory provision which is not a legitimate police regulation can- not be made ...
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... enforced in the present case ; there being no finding , nor any evidence to support a finding , that plaintiff in error was guilty in any other sense . The entire evidence is in- cluded in the bill of exceptions returned with the writ ...
... enforced in the present case ; there being no finding , nor any evidence to support a finding , that plaintiff in error was guilty in any other sense . The entire evidence is in- cluded in the bill of exceptions returned with the writ ...
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... enforced . It is not too much to say that such laws have by common consent been treated as unconstitutional , for while many state courts of last resort have adjudged them void , we have found no decision by such a court Opinion of the ...
... enforced . It is not too much to say that such laws have by common consent been treated as unconstitutional , for while many state courts of last resort have adjudged them void , we have found no decision by such a court Opinion of the ...
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... enforced , thus to forfeit his rights at all times and on all occasions , whenever the case may be presented . " Insurance Co. v . Morse , 20 Wall . 445 , 451 . It may be that an employer may be of the opinion that membership of his ...
... enforced , thus to forfeit his rights at all times and on all occasions , whenever the case may be presented . " Insurance Co. v . Morse , 20 Wall . 445 , 451 . It may be that an employer may be of the opinion that membership of his ...
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... enforce by man- damus or otherwise an order of the county court to have a tax as- sessed , this court will not construe the words " or otherwise " as au- thorizing the court to collect the tax itself , but as only allowing the resort to ...
... enforce by man- damus or otherwise an order of the county court to have a tax as- sessed , this court will not construe the words " or otherwise " as au- thorizing the court to collect the tax itself , but as only allowing the resort to ...
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Page 361 - That it shall be unlawful for any common carrier subject to the provisions of this act to make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to any particular person, company, firm, corporation, or locality, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 269 - That this provision shall not be construed to prohibit the interchange of passes for the officers, agents, and employees of common carriers, and their families; nor to prohibit any common carrier from carrying passengers free with the object of providing relief in cases of general epidemic, pestilence, or other calamitous visitation...
Page 298 - 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, and the property affected by the levy, judgment, attachment, or other lien shall be deemed wholly discharged and released from the same, and shall pass to the trustee as a part of the estate of the bankrupt...
Page 426 - State court of general jurisdiction having jurisdiction of the parties, a petition setting forth briefly the causes for which he claims damages, and the order of the Commission in the premises. Such suit in the district court of the United States shall proceed in all respects like other civil suits for damages, except that on the trial of such suits the findings and order of the Commission shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated...
Page 42 - But the fact that both parties are of full age and competent to contract does not necessarily deprive the state of the power to interfere, where the parties do not stand upon an equality, or where the public health demands that one party to the contract shall be protected against himself. The state still retains an interest in his welfare, however reckless he may be. The whole is no greater than the sum of all the parts, and when the individual health, safety, and welfare are sacrificed or neglected...
Page 352 - ... 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, and shall not discriminate in their rates and charges between such connecting lines; but this shall not be construed as requiring any such common carrier to give the use of its tracks or terminal facilities to another carrier engaged in like business.
Page 2 - ... impossible to uphold freedom of contract and the right of private property without at the same time recognizing as legitimate those inequalities of fortune that are the necessary result of the exercise of those rights.
Page 330 - The Commission may, in its discretion, prescribe the forms of any and all accounts, records, and memoranda...
Page 27 - In present conditions a workman not unnaturally may believe that only by belonging to a union can he secure a contract that shall be fair to him. ... If that belief, whether right or wrong, may be held by a reasonable man, it seems to me that it may be enforced by law in order to establish the equality of position between the parties in which liberty of contract begins.
Page 381 - Court. him for protection; that her physical structure and a proper discharge of her maternal functions — having in view not merely her own health, but the well-being of the race — justify legislation to protect her from the greed as well as the passion of man.