United States Reports: ... and Rules Announced at ...Banks & Bros., Law Publishers, 1896 |
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... action at law by mandamus , and that equity is without jurisdiction to enforce a compliance with those sections . It cannot be doubted that the Government could lawfully proceed by mandamus against the railway company for the purpose ...
... action at law by mandamus , and that equity is without jurisdiction to enforce a compliance with those sections . It cannot be doubted that the Government could lawfully proceed by mandamus against the railway company for the purpose ...
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... action . As operated , at the time this action was brought , the Union Pacific Railway extended from a point at or near Council Bluffs to Ogden , and from Kansas City , by the way of Denver , to Cheyenne . The entire line from a point ...
... action . As operated , at the time this action was brought , the Union Pacific Railway extended from a point at or near Council Bluffs to Ogden , and from Kansas City , by the way of Denver , to Cheyenne . The entire line from a point ...
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... action , and included intermediate points or drops in each case ; that the amount sought to be recovered in this action is such pro- portionate amount of the whole amount paid as the distance along the bonded portion of the telegraph ...
... action , and included intermediate points or drops in each case ; that the amount sought to be recovered in this action is such pro- portionate amount of the whole amount paid as the distance along the bonded portion of the telegraph ...
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... action proceeds , and can only proceed , upon the theory that the length which the telegraph line , constructed by the railroad company , bears to the entire distance , in whatever part of the United States , from the point of origin of ...
... action proceeds , and can only proceed , upon the theory that the length which the telegraph line , constructed by the railroad company , bears to the entire distance , in whatever part of the United States , from the point of origin of ...
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... action of the court in denying the request to summon certain witnesses at government ex- pense ; four relate to rulings of the court , admitting or reject- ing testimony ; and , finally , five to errors asserted to have been committed ...
... action of the court in denying the request to summon certain witnesses at government ex- pense ; four relate to rulings of the court , admitting or reject- ing testimony ; and , finally , five to errors asserted to have been committed ...
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Page 484 - ... at the time of the committing of the act the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or, if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.
Page 615 - Concurrent with the Court of Claims, of all claims not exceeding ten thousand dollars founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 419 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother : and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel, his brother ; and slew him.
Page 230 - ... no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against any person by any original process or proceeding in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, but where the jurisdiction is founded only on the fact that the action is between citizens of different States, suit shall be brought only in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant...
Page 667 - ... authority of the State within which the association is located; but the legislature of each State may determine and direct the manner and place of taxing all the shares of national banking associations located within the State, subject only to the two restrictions, that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State, and that the shares of any national banking association owned by non-residents of any State...
Page 201 - States, in the same manner and under the same regulations, and the writ shall have the same effect, as if the judgment or decree complained of had been rendered or passed in a circuit court...
Page 516 - The practice, pleadings, forms, and modes of proceeding in civil causes, other than equity and admiralty causes in the Circuit and District Courts, shall conform, as near as may be, to the practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding, existing at the time in like causes in the courts of record of the State, within which such Circuit or District Courts are held, any rule of the court to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 112 - 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 458 - It would be a very curious and unsatisfactory result If, In construing a provision of constitutional law always understood to have been adopted for protection and security to the rights of the individual as against the government, and which has received the commendation of jurists, statesmen, and commentators, as placing the just principles of the common law on that subject beyond the power of ordinary legislation to change or control them...
Page 484 - ... the jurors ought to be told in all cases that every man is to be presumed to be sane and to possess a sufficient degree of reason to be responsible for his crimes, until the contrary be proved to their satisfaction...