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..... to the appellees (plaintiffs below) and page 189 u. s. 326 situated in an indian reservation within the territory of oklahoma. the appellee, hite, resides in the ponca and otoe indian reservation within that territory; the stafford land & cattle company is a corporation organized under the laws of the state of texas and doing business in ..... own property in an organized county receive more benefit from the taxes levied for general purposes than do the owners of property located in a reservation. the act of 1899 makes certain personal property in the reservations bear its proportion of the burdens of taxation for territorial and court purposes, from which such property derives ..... method of thereafter making assessments in townships by means of one assessor for each county, did thereby repeal the provision in the act of 1895 in relation to a special assessor for the indian reservations we do not determine, because, even if such were the case, and the assessor for the county were the one to .....
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..... over the territory of a knowledge that they had thus acquired.' his periodical visits to oklahoma city, which was at once his post office, his most convenient and accessible railway station, and his market town, do not appear to have brought him any advantage over other persons seeking lands in the territory. " page 189 u. s. 300 ..... part of the lands in oklahoma which were opened to settlement at noon on april 22, 1889; shortly before this date, potter had been appointed by the indian agent of the cheyenne and arapahoe agency as assistant chief of police, with instructions to proceed to the east line of the reservation, preserve order and prevent any ..... commissioner of the general land office, passing on the recommendation of the register and receiver, had approved the finding of the local officers, but that subsequently the acting secretary had reviewed the previous decision of the secretary, had rejected the claim of hall and sustained the right of potter, and that the patent of the united .....
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..... upon motion of the united states, requiring these adverse claimants to be made parties defendant, the original petition was amended, and two of these, the american turquoise company and one mcnulty, joined with the united states in defending the case. page 189 u. s. 234 the court disallowed the claim upon the ground that the ..... is strong evidence either that the land was abandoned as not worth cultivating or that a residence there had become too dangerous by reason of the presence of hostile indians. in this connection, the court below found that "the evidence as to the settlement and occupation of the tract purporting to have been granted, continuity of possession ..... representatives of the original grantee since 1839, but for sixty years thereafter there was no attempt made to assert title thereto. by section 7 of the private land claims act, 26 stat. 854, "all proceedings" therein "shall be conducted, as near as may be, according to the practice of the courts of equity of the united .....
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..... united states unless the sum or value of the matter in dispute, exclusive of costs and interest, exceeded $2,000. that decision was reaffirmed in fishback v. western union telegraph company, 161 u. s. 96 , 161 u. s. 99 ." it was added, contrary to the intimation given in the opinion in the present case, that "the conclusion reached is not ..... 189 u. s. 502 depends. it is not sufficient that jurisdiction may be inferred argumentatively from its averments." to these cases i will add that of m., c. & l. m. railway v. swan, 111 u. s. 379 , 111 u. s. 382 , in which this court said: "it is true that the plaintiffs below, against whose objection the error was committed, do ..... invoke the consideration of a court of equity is not such a question of jurisdiction as is referred to in the judiciary act of march 3, 1891, c. 517, and we have therefore no concern with that question." blythe company v. blythe, 172 u.s. 644; blythe v. hinckley, 173 u. s. 501 , 173 u. s. 506 , from which i quote: "appeals .....
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..... early day meander lines and resulting fractional sections came to be established, not only when occasioned by navigable rivers, indian reservations, or private land claims, but from other causes. thus, where the deputy surveyor encountered a morass or swamp which he deemed impassable, or such a ..... and hence fractional subdivisions, the provisions of the surveying laws, both under the confederation and since, contemplated such a meander line also wherever there existed an indian reservation or private land claim which at the time of the survey was made prevented the extension of the public surveys. but it is apparent that from an ..... mitchell v. smale, 140 u. s. 406 . but the facts in this case are somewhat different. the calumet company claims title through mesne conveyances from the state of indiana. the state of indiana got its title under the swamp land act, september 28, 1850, c. 84, 9 stat. 520, rev.stat. 2479 et seq., and patents page 190 .....
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..... the united states before deciding the case, propounded the following questions: "1. in view of the provisions of the act of the general assembly of arkansas approved march 13, 1889, did the st. louis & san francisco railway company, by filing a certified copy of its articles of incorporation under the laws of missouri with the secretary of state ..... state, become a corporation and citizen of the state of arkansas?" "2. in view of the provisions of the act of the general assembly of arkansas approved march 13, 1889, did the st. louis & san francisco railway company, by filing a certified copy of its articles of incorporation under the laws of missouri with the secretary of state ..... error was and is a citizen of the state of missouri?" "3. in view of the provisions of the act of the general assembly of arkansas approved march 13, 1889, did the st. louis & san francisco railway company, by filing a certified copy of its articles of incorporation under the laws of missouri with the secretary of .....
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..... by reference to principles of accretion which it deemed applicable to the property in the bed of the lake owned by the state. now, in kean v. calumet canal & improvement company, ante, p. 190 u. s. 452 , quite recently decided by this court, the doctrine announced in hardin v. jordan was reexamined and it was in effect held that ..... to conveyances bounded on nonnavigable lakes does not mean that the land under such water also passed to the state on its admission or otherwise, apart from the swamp land act, but is simply a convenient, possibly the most convenient, way of determining the effect of a grant. we are particular in calling attention to this difference because we ..... in the opinion of the court. page 190 u. s. 518 mr. justice holmes delivered the opinion of the court. this is a proceeding under the burnt records act of the state of illinois, by which the defendant in error, shedd, seeks to establish his record title to certain land adjoining and under a nonnavigable lake called wolf .....
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..... exercise it until voluntarily surrendered. but if the state court had taken into consideration that zier & company had committed acts of bankruptcy in the matter of preferential transfers; that the amendatory bankruptcy act of february 5, 1903, provided that acts of bankruptcy would exist if a person, "being insolvent, applied for a receiver or trustee for ..... appearing to have been entered of record of its own motion that are complained of, and counsel in that court acted in good faith and in the honest discharge of their duty. m. zier & company, a corporation located at new albany, indiana, engaged in the boiler manufacturing business, was page 190 u. s. ..... the district of indiana against that corporation to have it declared a bankrupt. the petition alleged that the company was hopelessly insolvent and had committed, within four months next preceding the filing of the petition, acts of bankruptcy which were specified. it was further alleged that it was necessary, for the preservation of .....
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..... , the bonds passed upon recited that they were "issued by the city of evansville in payment of a subscription to the evansville, henderson & nashville railroad company, made in pursuance of an act of the legislature of the state of indiana, and ordinances of the city council of said city, passed in pursuance thereof." the bonds were dated may 1 ..... evansville was amended in 1865, but the amendment was declared unconstitutional by the supreme court of the state, and another act was passed in 1867. the latter act authorized a subscription to the stock of the railroad company, when a majority of the qualified voters of the city, who were also taxpayers, should vote therefor. the ordinances of ..... the 15th day of august, a.d. 1889, duly ordered by the board of commissioners of stanly county." the act of march 3, 1887, referred to, was an amendment of the act by which the yadkin railroad company was incorporated (1870-1871), and was declared by the supreme court of the state not page 190 u. s. 442 .....
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..... administered, affords no just ground for holding that the court of bankruptcy must administer and distribute, as included in the assets of the estate, the very property which the act, in unambiguous language, declares shall not pass from the bankrupt, or page 190 u. s. 300 become part of the bankruptcy assets. the two provisions of the ..... , he must prosecute that claim in a court which has jurisdiction over the property, which the bankrupt court has not." we think that the terms of the bankruptcy act of 1898, above set out, as clearly evidence the intention of congress that the title to the property of a bankrupt, generally exempted by state laws, should remain ..... constitution of the state, or are such creditors to be remitted to the state courts for such relief as may be there obtained?" the provisions of the bankruptcy act of 1898 which control the consideration of the question just propounded are as follows: by clause 11 of section 2, courts of bankruptcy are vested with jurisdiction to .....
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