The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Volumes 61-62West Publishing Company, 1894 - 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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Page 71
... petition was sustained . The case of Ulrich v . City of St. Louis , 20 S. W. 467 , decided by the supreme court of Missouri , was an action in which the plaintiff alleged that , while incarcerated in the workhouse of St. Louis , he was ...
... petition was sustained . The case of Ulrich v . City of St. Louis , 20 S. W. 467 , decided by the supreme court of Missouri , was an action in which the plaintiff alleged that , while incarcerated in the workhouse of St. Louis , he was ...
Page 72
... petition [ an ordinance ái- recting the killing of dogs by a policeman ] was an exercise by the city of its police power . Its purpose was to secure the safety , health , and welfare of the public . The man whose act was complained of ...
... petition [ an ordinance ái- recting the killing of dogs by a policeman ] was an exercise by the city of its police power . Its purpose was to secure the safety , health , and welfare of the public . The man whose act was complained of ...
Page 88
... petition in the district court of Rusk coun- ty to remove the said cause to the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Texas on the ground of prejudice and local influence , and on the same day filed in the ...
... petition in the district court of Rusk coun- ty to remove the said cause to the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Texas on the ground of prejudice and local influence , and on the same day filed in the ...
Page 90
... petition ; and again , defendants suffered the case to be continued to the July term of 1889 of said court , at which July term the defendants presented the application for removal to the circuit court for the eastern district of Texas ...
... petition ; and again , defendants suffered the case to be continued to the July term of 1889 of said court , at which July term the defendants presented the application for removal to the circuit court for the eastern district of Texas ...
Page 110
... Petition by the Myers Excursion & Navigation Company for limi- tation of liability in respect to their excursion barge , the Republic . The petition was dismissed by the court below ( 57 Fed . 240 ) , and the petitioner appeals . Wing ...
... Petition by the Myers Excursion & Navigation Company for limi- tation of liability in respect to their excursion barge , the Republic . The petition was dismissed by the court below ( 57 Fed . 240 ) , and the petitioner appeals . Wing ...
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Page 2 - 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 interest and costs, the sum or value of two thousand dollars, and arising under the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 391 - An Act to Aid in the Construction of a Railroad and Telegraph Line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to Secure to the Government the Use of the Same for Postal, Military, and Other Purposes, Approved July First, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-two,' approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page 749 - This company shall not be liable beyond the actual cash value of the property at the time any loss or damage occurs, and the loss or damage shall be ascertained or estimated according to such actual cash value, with proper deduction for depreciation, however caused, and shall in no event exceed what it •would then cost the insured to repair or replace the same with material of like kind and quality.
Page 600 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 749 - ... the appraisers together shall then estimate and appraise the loss, stating separately sound value and damage, and, failing to agree shall submit their differences to the umpire; and the award in writing of any two shall determine the amount of such loss...
Page 4 - And when in any suit mentioned in this section there shall be a controversy which is wholly between citizens of different states, and which can be fully determined as between them, then either one or more of the defendants actually interested in such controversy may remove said suit into the circuit court of the United States for the proper district.
Page 485 - In estimating such confinement, the time during which the animals have been confined without such rest on connecting roads from which they are received shall be included, it being the intent of this section to prohibit their continuous confinement beyond the period of twentyeight hours, except upon contingencies hereinbefore stated.
Page 230 - State, and whenever, on the line thereof, the United States have full title, not reserved, sold, granted, or otherwise appropriated, and free from preemption, or other claims or rights, at the time the line of said road is definitely fixed, and a plat thereof filed in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office...
Page 230 - That the president of the United States shall cause the lands to be surveyed for forty miles in width on both sides of the entire line of said road, after the general route shall be fixed, and as fast as may be required by the construction of said railroad...
Page 351 - In obeying and construing these rules due regard shall be had to all dangers of navigation and collision, and to any special circumstances which may render a departure from the above rules necessary in order to avoid immediate danger.