Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, Volume 5Callaghan, 1876 |
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Page 173
... bridge and went down the harbor , keeping close along the North Pier , and when near the west end of the extension she heard a signal from the Evans , one blast of the whistle , indi- cating the fact that the Evans had discovered the ...
... bridge and went down the harbor , keeping close along the North Pier , and when near the west end of the extension she heard a signal from the Evans , one blast of the whistle , indi- cating the fact that the Evans had discovered the ...
Page 243
... bridges , depots , and other prop- erty thereon , with the tolls and income arising therefrom , " were within the terms of the mortgage . And the court found negatively that the mortgage did not extend to any other portion of the road ...
... bridges , depots , and other prop- erty thereon , with the tolls and income arising therefrom , " were within the terms of the mortgage . And the court found negatively that the mortgage did not extend to any other portion of the road ...
Page 296
... bridge at Winona , Minnesota , on the Mississippi river , July 21 , 1872 , while the Mollie Mohler was engaged in towing a raft of logs from Beef Slough , in Wis- consin , to Rock Island , Illinois . Jeremiah Turner filed a claim as ...
... bridge at Winona , Minnesota , on the Mississippi river , July 21 , 1872 , while the Mollie Mohler was engaged in towing a raft of logs from Beef Slough , in Wis- consin , to Rock Island , Illinois . Jeremiah Turner filed a claim as ...
Page 299
... of the tes- timony , maps , plats , diagrams and distances from the bridge , elevator and other monuments in that vicinity , arrived at a The W. H. Clark . conclusion , quite satisfactory to 1873. ] 299 WESTERN WISCONSIN .
... of the tes- timony , maps , plats , diagrams and distances from the bridge , elevator and other monuments in that vicinity , arrived at a The W. H. Clark . conclusion , quite satisfactory to 1873. ] 299 WESTERN WISCONSIN .
Page 300
... bridge across the Mississippi river . The steamer W. H. Clark , about the same time in the morn- ing , started at a point about four miles above with her raft , an eight - string lumber raft , being about 136 feet wide by 450 feet long ...
... bridge across the Mississippi river . The steamer W. H. Clark , about the same time in the morn- ing , started at a point about four miles above with her raft , an eight - string lumber raft , being about 136 feet wide by 450 feet long ...
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Page 46 - L. 78) declares, 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...
Page 75 - In all cases where the rules prescribed by this Court, or by the Circuit Court, do not apply, the practice of the Circuit Court shall be regulated by the present practice of the High Court of Chancery in England, so far as the same may reasonably be applied consistently with the local circumstances and local convenience of the district where the 'Court is held, not as positive rules, but as furnishing just analogies to regulate the practice.
Page 400 - When the action is between herself and her husband, she may sue or be sued alone; 3.
Page 502 - ... its shareholders or creditors; and all payments of money to either, made after the commission of an act of insolvency, or in contemplation thereof, made with a view to prevent the application of its assets in the manner prescribed by this chapter, or with a view to the preference of one creditor to another, except in payment of its circulating notes, shall be utterly null and void...
Page 37 - ... shall be exempt from forced sale on execution, or any other final process from a court, for any debt contracted after the adoption of this constitution.
Page 381 - It is true that a statute, containing a prohibition and a penalty, makes the act which it punishes unlawful, and the same may be implied from a penalty without a prohibition ; but it does not follow that the unlawfulness of the act was meant by the legislature to avoid a contract made in contravention of it. When the statute is silent, and contains nothing from which the contrary can be properly inferred, a contract in contravention of it is void.
Page 324 - That no debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by his defalcation as a public officer, or while acting in any fiduciary character, shall be discharged under this act...
Page 502 - suits, actions, and proceedings by and against any association under this act may be had in any circuit, district, or territorial court of the United States held within the district in which such association may be established.
Page 501 - ... to take any captured vessel, any arms or munitions of war or other material...
Page 448 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen, within their respective districts as well as upon the high seas...