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Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Ry. Co. Vs. Ohio

Court : US Supreme Court

..... act. the act further provided a penalty of not over $5,000, and also that the party aggrieved should have a right to recover three times the amount of damages sustained, with costs and attorney's fees. rev.stat. ill. c. 114, 126. an action to recover penalties under this statute was brought by illinois against the wabash, st. louis and pacific railway company ..... to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the indian tribes and to establish post offices and post roads. in pursuance of this power, congress, on june 15, 1866, enacted that "every railroad company in the united states whose road is operated by steam, its successors and assigns ..... navigation may be in any manner connected with commerce with foreign nations or among the several states or with the indian tribes. it may, of consequence, pass the jurisdictional line of new york, and act upon the very waters -- the hudson river -- to which the prohibition now under consideration applies." "so the .....

Louisville, N.A. and C. Ry. Co. Vs. Louisville Trust Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... ." on april 7, 1882, the legislature of kentucky, by a statute entitled "an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the louisville, new albany & chicago railway,' approved april 8, 1880," enacted that "the louisville, new albany & chicago railway company is hereby authorized and empowered to endorse or guarantee the principal and interest of the bonds ..... u. s. 391 , 122 u. s. 405 , 122 u. s. 408 ; st. louis & san francisco railway v. james, 161 u. s. 545 , 161 u. s. 561 . the acts done by the louisville, new albany & chicago railway company, under the statutes of kentucky, while affording ample evidence that it had accepted the grants thereby made, can hardly affect the ..... . 1865, p. 68, c. 20, 7; rev.stat. 3951. on april 8, 1880, the legislature of kentucky passed a statute entitled "an act to incorporate the new albany & chicago railway company," which took effect upon its passage, and the first two sections of which were as follows: "sec 1. the louisville, new albany & chicago .....

Stephens Vs. Cherokee Nation

Court : US Supreme Court

..... power of congress, we need not review the decisions on the subject, as they are sufficiently referred to by mr. justice harlan in cherokee nation v. southern kansas railway company, 135 u. s. 641 , 135 u. s. 653 , from whose opinion we quote as follows: "the proposition that the cherokee nation is sovereign in ..... consist of all the creek country, all of the seminole country, all of the cherokee country, all of the country occupied by the indian tribes in the quapaw indian agency, and the townsite of the miami townsite company. . . . the central district shall consist of all the choctaw country. . . . the southern district shall consist of all the ..... chickasaw country." the act provided for two additional judges for the court, one of whom should be judge of the northern district, and the other, .....

Jones Vs. Meehan

Court : US Supreme Court

..... and had no railroad and no important industry, and land there was of little value. but in 1892, after the erection of the plaintiffs' saw mill, the great northern railway company built a railroad to the village, a large settlement sprang up there, and the land increased in value. on july 20, 1894, moose dung the younger, describing himself as ..... circumstances: by the treaty made at camp tippecanoe in the state of illinois on october 20, 1832, between the united states and the pottawatomie tribe of indians of the prairie and kankaukee (while the act of march 30, 1802, c. 13, was in force), that tribe ceded a large tract of land in illinois to the united states, and ..... 1795, arts. 4, 5; 7 stat. 16, 29, 52. soon after the adoption of the constitution, the same doctrine was repeatedly recognized and enforced by congress in temporary acts regulating trade and intercourse with the indian tribes. by the act of july 22, 1790, c. 33, 4, it was "enacted and declared that no sale of lands made by any .....

Tullis Vs. Lake Erie and Western R. Co.

Court : US Supreme Court

..... 407, and st. louis, i. m. & s. r. co. v. paul, 64 ark. 83, 37 l.r. a. 504, 40 s.w. 705, an act of arkansas of march 25, 1889, was held unconstitutional by the supreme court of that ..... effect that the act was capable of severance; that its relation to relation to railroad corporations was not essentially and inseparably connected in substance with its relation to other corporations, and that therefore whether it was constitutional or not as to other corporations, it might be sustained as to railroad corporations. in leep v. railway company, 58 ark. ..... any person sustaining such damage" was involved, and it was held that it did not deny to railroad companies the equal protection of the laws. mr. justice field said: "the hazardous character of the business of operating a railway would seem to call for page 175 u. s. 352 special legislation with respect to railroad corporations, having .....

Adirondack Ry. Co. Vs. New York State

Court : US Supreme Court

..... use, and its officers are by appropriate legislation authorized to act, this court accepts the views of that court, and thinks that the proceedings on the part of the state which are complained of in this case impaired the obligation of no contract between it and the railway company. the necessity or expediency of appropriating particular property for public ..... of the board, with a general description of the property appropriated and a copy of the papers above mentioned, were served on william mcechron, the president of the indian river company, which then owned the lands involved. this service was made, as the special term is presumed to have found, at ten minutes before noon. on the same ..... forest preserve and also of the adriondack park.' upon the 15th of august, 1897, a representative of the state engineer with a surveying party began surveying at indian lake for the purpose of constructing a dam at its mouth in order to stow water for the use of the champlain canal and for water power on .....

Jamestown and Northern R. Co. Vs. Jones

Court : US Supreme Court

..... have acquired no rights whatever by the construction of its road. the act of 1875, upon which plaintiff relies, is as follows: "that the right of way through the public lands of the page 177 u. s. 129 united states is hereby granted to any railway company duly organized under the laws of any state or territory, except the ..... forfeited as to any such uncompleted section of said road." "sec. 5. that this act shall not apply to any lands within the limits of any military park or indian reservation, or other lands especially reserved for sale. . . ." there is some uncertainty in the act. its first section is expressed in words of present grant, but there is no ..... state or territory,' etc. the uniform rule of this court has been that such an act was a grant in praesenti of lands to be thereafter identified. railway co. v. alling, 99 u. s. 463 ." this case establishes that a railroad company becomes specifically a grantee by filing its articles of incorporation and due proofs of its organization .....

The Municipal Council Vs. the Standard Life Assurance Company

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1900)10MLJ401

..... i.l.r. 19 m.k 10 was one of an unfinished house and we were not satisfied that any provision of the act had been contravened. the cases reported in municipal council of tuticorin v. south indian railway company i.l.r. 13 m.k 78 are cases on the other side of the liae. the last of these cases closely ..... orders for another person, with no power to make contracts. an attempt was made to distinguish the cases on the ground that according to section 4 of the indian contract act, the acceptance of a proposal is not binding on the acceptor until he becomes aware of it. that rule of law has in our opinion no bearing whatever ..... 2. in regard to the substantial question there are two points to be considered--it has to be ascertained whether the company was exercising any art, profession, trade, or calling specified in the schedule to the act and whether to the company exercised such art, profession, trade, or calling within the municipality within the meaning pi the 53rd section. the business .....

The Municipal Council Vs. the Standard Life Assurance Company

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1901)ILR24Mad205

..... mad. 10 was one of an unfinished house and we were not satisfied that any provision of the act had been contravened. the cases, tuticorin municipality v south indian railway i.l.r. 13 mad. 78 and municipal council, cocanada v. royal insurance company, liverpool i.l.r. 21 mad. 5 are on the other aide of the line. the last ..... orders for another person, with no power to make contracts. an attempt was made to distinguish the cases on the ground that according to section 4 of the indian contract act the acceptance of a proposal is not binding on the acceptor until he becomes aware of it. that rule of law has, in our opinion, no bearing ..... . in regard to the substantial question there are two points to be considered--it has to be ascertained whether the company was exercising any art, profession, trade or calling specified in the schedule to the act, and whether the company exercised such art, profession, trade, or calling within the municipality within the meaning of the 53rd section. the business .....

American Sugar Refining Co. Vs. Louisiana

Court : US Supreme Court

..... their constitution." see also home page 179 u. s. 95 insurance company v. new york, 134 u. s. 594 ; st. louis &c.; railway v. paul, 173 u. s. 404 . in pacific express company v. seibert, 142 u. s. 339 , a state statute defining an express company to be such as carried on the business of transportation on contracts ..... wholesale dealers in liquors. while no question of the power of congress is involved, these instances show that its general policy does not differ from that of the act in question, and that the discrimination is based upon reasonable grounds. so, too, this court has had repeated occasion to sustain discriminations founded upon reasons much ..... motion to dismiss must be denied, but, the case having also been submitted upon the merits, we shall proceed to discuss the constitutional objection to the act. it is scarcely necessary to say that the question whether the defendant were a manufacturer within the meaning of the louisiana constitution is one dependent upon the construction .....