Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Washington, Volume 53

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Page 435 - Any city containing a population of more than three thousand five hundred inhabitants may frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the Constitution and laws of this State...
Page 541 - Upon retiring for deliberation, the jury may take with them all papers (except depositions) which have been received as evidence in the cause, or copies of such public records or private documents given in evidence as ought not, in the opinion of the court, to be taken from the person having them in possession.
Page 376 - And said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to lay out, locate, construct, furnish, maintain, and enjoy a continuous railroad and telegraph...
Page 330 - That any telegraph company now organized, or which may hereafter be organized, under the laws of any State in this Union, .shall have the right to construct, maintain, and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States...
Page 334 - Recollecting the fundamental principle that the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States are the supreme law of the land. It seems to us almost absurd to contend that a power given to a person or corporation by the United States may be subjected to taxation by a State.
Page 434 - The legislative authority of the state shall be vested in a legislative assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly...
Page 400 - In the view we take of the case it will not be necessary to consider the...
Page 2 - Liberty, in its broad sense, as understood in this country, means the right not only of freedom from actual servitude, imprisonment, or restraint, but the right of one to use his faculties, in all lawful ways, to live and work where he will, to earn his livelihood in any lawful calling, and to pursue any lawful trade or vocation.
Page 466 - ... was sufficient evidence to carry the case to the jury on the question of the existence of funds or credit to meet the check on Its presentation.
Page 327 - Union, shall have the right to construct, maintain. and operate lines of telegraph through and over any portion of the public domain of the United States, over and along any of the military or post roads of the United States...

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