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..... 338, 339; pomeroy on contracts 95; 1 parsons on contracts, 9th ed. 483; 2 parsons on contracts 257, note; metcalf on contracts 17; thompson on law of electricity, 425-478; scott and jarnogin, law of telegraphs, 295 et seq.; addison on contracts 16, 17. whether the acceptance by the rialto company of the defendant's offer ..... all crimes against the united states shall be held in the state and the district where such crimes shall have been committed. const. art. 3, 2, sixth amendment. the contention of the accused is that, in no view of the evidence, can he be said to have committed any offense in the state of missouri; consequently ..... in chicago, burlington & quincy railroad company v. kellogg, 54 neb. 138, in deciding whether a trial judge was disqualified, this was the ruling: "'a judge . . . is disqualified from acting as such . . . in any case wherein he is . . . interested.' but the word 'interested,' found in this section of the statute, probably means pecuniarily interested, or at least .....
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..... and "best approached," to use the language of the court, "by an examination of the statutory situation," and upon that examination pronounced its conclusion that "the act of 1895 was in effect an amendment of the plaintiff's charter," citing bulkley v. new york & new haven r. co., 27 conn. 479; new york & new england r. co. v ..... 879, against plaintiff in error, for the cost of paving between its tracks and for one foot on each side thereof. plaintiff in error operates a double track electric railway through west chapel street in new haven. in pursuance of certain laws of the state, the court of common council, through a contractor, caused the street to ..... under our review in its excesses. we accept the decision of the supreme court of errors that the statutes were intended as an exercise of the power of amendment reserved by the state, although plaintiff in error contends that such was not their intention. the court treated the question involved as primarily one on statutory construction, .....
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..... money in doing so, and, in the acquisition of the stock of the brighton railroad and the conversion of its road into an electric road, relied upon the provisions of the act of 1869 as a contract exempting it, with respect to the streets covered by the tracks of the brighton railroad, from other street ..... 244, it appeared that the charter of the northeastern railroad company, granted by the state of south carolina, originally contained no exemption from taxation, but that, by amendment to the charter some years later, the real estate and stock of the company were exempted from all taxation during the continuance of its charter. subsequently the legislature ..... use the words "rights, franchises, and privileges" in the restricted sense. the law under which this transfer was made was enacted in 1867 and amended in 1879. in 1869, an act was passed authorizing the merger and consolidation of railroad corporations, c. 917, laws of 1869, which provided that, upon the consolidation, "all and singular .....
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..... large expenditure of money in the purchase of the monongahela water company plant -- a plant owned by a private corporation -- and the further expensive construction of an electric light plant to be owned by the city of pittsburgh, the said city owning at the present time no light plant, it being supplied with light from a ..... said city, on february 20th, 1906, about 24,000 votes in round numbers." "6th. the city of allegheny has improved its streets, established its own system of electric lighting, and has established a satisfactory water supply. the city of pittsburgh is largely in debt; has established large and extensive parks in the eastern part of the city ..... pennsylvania erred in dismissing the seventh assignment of error of the plaintiffs in error, which is as follows:" " the act of assembly under which this petition is filed is in conflict with article xiv of the amendments to the constitution of the united states, because the said annexation of the city of allegheny to the city of .....
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..... 651, to "desist from doing any page 207 u. s. 386 acts or exercising any pretenses of right to act" under the ordinance which will in anywise affect the exclusive right of the water, light & gas company "to furnish the city and its inhabitants with electric or gas light for lighting and heating purposes or power, except for street ..... exceeding twenty-one years." this provision was repeated in 59 of the statutes of 1872. but in 1885, that section was amended, so as to omit the words "the exclusive privilege." statutes 1885, p. 147, 7. and, as thus amended, it was reenacted in 1901. section 1000, general statutes of 1901. decrees affirmed. * "sec. 35. the mayor and ..... council of each city governed by this act shall have the care, management, and control of the city and its finances, and shall have .....
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..... all bound together by a network of interstate railroads. their operation, aided by the quick and cheap transmission of the mails and the communication of intelligence by electricity, has transformed the commerce of the country. interstate commerce by land, once so slight as to be unworthy of the attention of the national legislature, ..... one could then have foreseen the extent of the interstate commerce of our times, for no one could foretell the employment of the forces of steam and electricity which have so wonderfully aided its development. but the statesmen of that time, confident of the future and hopeful that they might devise a government which would ..... merits of the contentions concerning the alleged repugnancy of the statute, if regarded as otherwise valid, to the due process clause of the fifth amendment to the constitution, because the act classifies together all common carriers. although we deem it unnecessary to consider that subject, it must not be implied that we question the .....
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..... to contract with street railway companies in respect to the terms and conditions upon which such roads might be constructed, operated, extended, and consolidated." in cleveland v. cleveland electric ry. co., 201 u. s. 529 , precisely the same authority appeared. in vicksburg v. vicksburg water works co., 206 u. s. 496 , the court ..... contract must therefore be denied. the appellant also contends that the ordinances fixing rates are wanting in due process of law, and therefore violate the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the united states, because the section (31) of the charter, under whose authority they were enacted, does not expressly provide ..... to erect or lay telephone wires . . . upon any public street or highway" shall be granted by municipal corporations only upon the conditions prescribed in the act. the conditions enumerated are that an application for the franchise shall be filed with the governing body of the municipality, of which advertisement, in the discretion of .....
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..... have an interest, and the real estate so purchased, to sell, convey, lease, or mortgage at pleasure, to any person or persons whatsoever." "sec. 99. (46, as amended by act of february 28, 1870). the provisions of sections two, three, four, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, forty-two, and forty-four of title one shall apply to and ..... 19, 1890. by that ordinance, the railway company was authorized to operate all its existing lines, and all its lines to be thereafter constructed in the city, by electricity as the motive power. section viii of that ordinance provides: "sec viii. in the construction, maintenance, and operation of said lines of street railway, said minneapolis street railway ..... or as may be determined by the district court of hennepin county." there can be no doubt that, in the then state of the art, the use of electric power as the means of operating the cars of the company was not specifically in contemplation. while pneumatic power is also suggested, there does not seem to be .....
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..... that would bring it into conflict with the constitution of the united states, grenada county v. brogden, 112 u. s. 261 ; cooley's const.lim. 218; atty. gen. v. electric storage battery co., 188 mass. 239; that it was too well settled to admit of debate that "it is beyond the power of the state, under the guise either of ..... revoked, its authority to do business in arkansas. the first contention of the appellant is that this action is one against the state within the meaning of the eleventh amendment of the constitution, declaring that the judicial power of the united states shall not extend to any suit in law or equity against a state by a citizen of another ..... : before the statute here in question was passed, there was in force in arkansas a statute (act of february 16th, 1899, as amended by the act of may 8th, 1899, kirby's dig., c. 31) which was very similar, in many respects, to the act of 1907 now under examination. the state supreme court had occasion to determine the scope and effect .....
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..... telephone co. v. los angeles, 211 u. s. 265 , 211 u. s. 281 . the enactment of the statute now in question fell within this right. norwich gas & electric co. v. norwich, 76 conn. 565, 573." in the argument on behalf of the plaintiff in error, no attempt is made to meet the force of the foregoing statements of ..... discretion and a reasonable selection which is not merely arbitrary and without real difference does not deny equal protection of the laws within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment. the statute of connecticut of 1907, limiting interest on loans is not unconstitutional as denying equal protection of the laws because it excepts loans made by ..... the further exception in favor of loans by trust companies chartered by this state was fully justified by the peculiar character of these institutions, each created by a special act of legislation, and subject to the inspection of the bank commissioners. gen.stat. 1902, ch. 199, 202. there was also reasonable cause for the exception as .....
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