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May 14 1888 (FN)

WisconsIn Vs. Pelican Ins. Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... due to merchants or others residing in great britain, and confiscating to the state all the property belonging and debts due to subjects of great britain, and that by the operation of this law, all the debts due from citizens of georgia to persons who had been subjected to the penalties of confiscation in other states, and of british merchants and .....

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Mar 22 1897 (FN)

United States Vs. Trans-Missouri Freight Ass'n

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 166 u. s. 337 lines. it may be entirely true that, as we proceed in the development of the policy of public control over railway traffic, methods will be devised and put in operation by legislative enactment whereby railway companies and the public may be protected against the evils arising from unrestricted competition, and from rate wars which unsettle the business of the ..... , no matter how beneficial its general purpose may be. there are benefits and there are evils which result from the operation of the law of free competition between railway companies. the time may come when the companies will be relieved from the operation of this law, but they cannot, by combination and agreements among themselves, bring about this change. the fact that the .....

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Jan 15 1917 (FN)

Von Baumbach Vs. Sargent Land Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... organized for profit, there can be no difficulty. they certainly do not come within the exceptional character of charitable or eleemosynary organizations excepted from the operation of the act. we need not dwell upon the obvious purpose of these corporations, organized under the provisions of the minnesota statute concerning companies ..... part of the land for schoolhouse purposes, as well as another part for a public park. to insure the proper carrying on of the mining operations, the companies employed another corporation, engaged in engineering and inspection of ore properties, to provide supervision and inspection of the work upon the respondents' ..... besides receiving and distributing among their shareholders the royalties from a number of outstanding long-term "mining leases," employed another company to inspect the lessees' operations and keep them to their contracts, made some mining explorations at expense on other parts of their properties, sold or leased other parcels and sold .....

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Dec 14 1917 (PC)

The Municipal Council of Vizagapatam Vs. William Foster

Court : Chennai

Reported in : AIR1918Mad264(2); 44Ind.Cas.308

..... decision in p. &. o.s. n. co. v. secretary of state for india 5 b.h.c.r. app. 1 which was followed. the proposition shortly stated is that by operation of statutes the same protection is given to the secretary of state and his servants in respect of torts committed by them in the exercise- of the functions of sovereign ..... any longer law in england. in this country the principle of making corporations liable for neglect of duty has been uniformly enforced. the decision in corporation of the town of calcutta v. anderson 5 ind. dec. 299 is a strong authority for that proposition; notwithstanding the criticisms of the learned vakil for the appellant that that decision turned on the ..... port of bombay 6 ind. dec. 215 and ullman v. justices of the peace for the town of calcutta 8 b.l.r. 265 it was held that an in dependent contractor would not be liable for torts. in steel v. south eastern railway, co. (1855) 16 c.b. 550crowder, j., with the concurrence of the other judges said: 'the circumstance .....

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Nov 20 1922 (FN)

Cumberland Tel. and Tel. Co. Vs. Louisiana P.S.C.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... for the eastern district of louisiana syllabus 1. upon appeal from an order merely refusing a preliminary injunction, under jud.code 266, there is nothing upon which a supersedeas may operate. p. 260 u. s. 215 . 2. under jud.code, 266, a single judge, in allowing an appeal from an order of the district court, constituted of three judges, ..... issued a mandamus directing him to annul the order of vacation. we are of opinion that a single judge has no power, in view of 266, to affect the operation of the order of the court constituted by the three judges granting or denying the interlocutory injunction applied for. to hold that he may grant a temporary injunction varying ..... judges who have heard the whole matter, have read the record, and can pass on the issue without additional labor. that was the course taken by this court in southern railway co. v. watts, 259 u.s. 576. a similar order will be made here. the action of the district court thus constituted, however, will not revive or vitalize .....

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Mar 05 1934 (FN)

Trinityfarm Construction Co. Vs. Grosjean

Court : US Supreme Court

..... no room for any distinction between the plant so employed and the gasoline used to generate power. if the payment of state taxes imposed on the property and operations of appellant affects the federal government at all, it at most gives rise to a burden which is consequential and remote, and not to one that is necessary ..... arises out of our dual government. it has often been given effect. [ footnote 2 ] and, reciprocally, it safeguards every state against federal tax on its governmental agencies or operations. [ footnote 3 ] its application does not depend upon the amount of the exaction, the weight of the burden, or the extent of the resulting interference with sovereign independence ..... states for the construction of levees in louisiana to control the waters of page 291 u. s. 470 the mississippi river. it consumes much gasoline in the operation of machinery employed to do the work. it imports its supply from other states in carload lots and places it in a central tank from which distribution .....

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Aug 28 1939 (PC)

Chandra Sekhar Mukherjee Vs. Corporation of Calcutta and ors.

Court : Kolkata

Reported in : AIR1940Cal67

..... this place at any time before this, and consequently it is necessary that the sanction of the corporation should be first obtained before the dumping operations are commenced. under section 12(1), calcutta municipal act, the corporation may, by special resolution passed at a special meeting, delegate to the executive officer any of the powers, duties and ..... in the meantime, and these would be relevant matters for consideration in exercising the powers under section 371, calcutta municipal act. i also want to make it clear that if the work of the corporation in any future operation amounts to a nuisance the dismissal of this suit would not prevent any person who is aggrieved by ..... of due care and caution on the part of the corporation authorities in carrying on its operations. it was held further that no proper sanction of the corporation was taken as is contemplated by proviso 1 to section 371(1), calcutta municipal act, and as the act of the corporation amounted to a nuisance in law, the .....

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May 15 1944 (FN)

Northwest Airlines, Inc. Vs. Minnesota

Court : US Supreme Court

..... record that petitioner maintains at st. paul, minnesota, its airplane and engine overhauling base at which the principal repairs to planes and engines are made, it also operates maintenance bases at chicago, illinois, minneapolis, minnesota, fargo, north dakota, billings, montana, and spokane and seattle, page 322 u. s. 319 washington at which ..... have a physical relationship to petitioner's business -- by reason of the movement of planes, over the fixed routes, the landing of planes, the maintenance and operation of repair and service equipment, landing fields, hangars, and office buildings, with their attendant employees -- which, for practical purposes, is as substantial in nature as ..... . 317 in galveston, h. & s.a. r. co. v. texas, supra, 210 u. s. 228 , in which a tax on gross receipts of a railway engaged in interstate commerce was condemned because not apportioned, the court declared, "[o]f course, it does not matter that plaintiffs in error are domestic corporations." the like rule, .....

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Dec 20 1946 (PC)

Emperor Vs. J.K. Gas Plant Manufacturing Co. Ltd.

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : AIR1947Bom361; (1947)49BOMLR352

..... for the petitioners, takes exception to proposition b(2), and contends that the ordinances regarding matters enumerated in the federal and concurrent legislative lists cease to be operative six months after the revocation of the proclamation of emergency. his contention finds some support in a recent (still unreported) decision of the madras high court ..... ordinance (xxix of 1943), on september 11, 1943. section 3 of that ordinance empowered the central government to constitute two special tribunals, one to sit at calcutta and the other at lahore, and under section 5, such tribunals were given jurisdiction to try eases allotted to them in the first schedule to the ordinance ..... the ordinance has continued to be in force with respect to matters enumerated in the federal legislative list.34. it is, however, obvious that rampur railway station being outside british india, the governor general could not constitute a tribunal to try an offence committed there and the allotment of the trial of that .....

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Feb 16 1948 (FN)

Seaboard Air Line R. Co. Vs. Daniel

Court : US Supreme Court

..... the complaint also asserted that the order, by explicit reference to the commission finding in its report, affirmatively authorized appellant to own and operate the entire railway system without complying with the south carolina railroad corporation laws. [ footnote 4 ] the answer to the complaint did not challenge the ..... the appellant, seaboard air line railroad company, with the approval of the interstate commerce commission, succeeded to the ownership and operation of a unitary railroad system with 4,200 railway miles in six southern states. seven hundred and thirty-six miles of its lines traverse south carolina connecting with its lines ..... with congressional enactments applicable to railroads. in furtherance of this congressional policy, these agencies approved reorganization plans which called for the purchase and operation of these properties, including the portion in south carolina, by appellant, as a virginia corporation. this court has previously approved a commission .....

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