The Federal Reporter: Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Volumes 57-58West 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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... Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the North- ern Division of the Northern District of Alabama . At ... error . R. C. Brickell , J. E. Brown , and D. D. Shelby , for defendant in error . Before PARDEE and McCORMICK ...
... Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the North- ern Division of the Northern District of Alabama . At ... error . R. C. Brickell , J. E. Brown , and D. D. Shelby , for defendant in error . Before PARDEE and McCORMICK ...
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... error , for error in ruling on any plea in abatement , other than a plea to the jurisdiction of the court , or for any error in fact . " Rev. St. § 1011. The jurisdiction of the court referred to in the exception in this statute seems ...
... error , for error in ruling on any plea in abatement , other than a plea to the jurisdiction of the court , or for any error in fact . " Rev. St. § 1011. The jurisdiction of the court referred to in the exception in this statute seems ...
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... error . The forty - first and forty - second assignments of error are the sustaining by the court of objections to the following questions asked a witness : " Was it not generally understood there in the community in the fall and winter ...
... error . The forty - first and forty - second assignments of error are the sustaining by the court of objections to the following questions asked a witness : " Was it not generally understood there in the community in the fall and winter ...
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... error discharged the burden of proof resting on them . But this fraudulent intent is immaterial unless they traced to Keith knowledge of it , or information of sus- picious circumstances , which ought to have led him to make in- quiry ...
... error discharged the burden of proof resting on them . But this fraudulent intent is immaterial unless they traced to Keith knowledge of it , or information of sus- picious circumstances , which ought to have led him to make in- quiry ...
Page 107
... error . John T. Dye and Humphrey & Davie , for defendant in error . Before GRESHAM , Circuit Judge , and BLODGETT and JEN- KINS , District Judges . PER CURIAM . The record discloses no error , and the judgment is affirmed , with costs ...
... error . John T. Dye and Humphrey & Davie , for defendant in error . Before GRESHAM , Circuit Judge , and BLODGETT and JEN- KINS , District Judges . PER CURIAM . The record discloses no error , and the judgment is affirmed , with costs ...
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Page 572 - That all fermented, distilled, or other intoxicating liquors or liquids transported into any State or Territory or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein shall, upon arrival in such State or Territory, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such State or Territory...
Page 212 - all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall have the same right in every state and territory to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, give evidence, and to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property, as Is enjoyed by white citizens...
Page 530 - ... 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 675 - 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 383 - ... to injure or defraud the association or any other company, body politic or corporate, or any individual person, or to deceive any officer of the...
Page 702 - ... of the former may maintain an action therefor against the latter, if the former might have maintained an action had he lived against the latter for an injury for the same act or omission. The action must be commenced within two years. The damages cannot exceed...
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Page 593 - Whenever in the opinion of the Government of the United States, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States, or their residence therein, affects or threatens to affect the interests of that country, or to endanger the good order of the said country or of any locality within the territory thereof, the Government of China agrees that the Government of the United States may regulate, limit, or suspend such coming or residence, but may not absolutely prohibit it.
Page 461 - ... have cognizance of any suit except upon foreign bills of exchange, to recover the contents of any promissory note or other chose in action in favor of any assignee, or of any subsequent holder...
Page 301 - The proximate cause is the efficient cause, the one that necessarily sets the other causes in operation. The causes that are merely incidental or instruments of a superior or controlling agency are not the proximate causes »nd the responsible ones, though they may be nearer in time to the result.