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..... manner as county taxes a special tax in order to pay the interest and principal of any bond which might be issued by a municipal corporation in the state on account of a subscription, authorized by the act, to the stock of a railroad company, which tax should be levied on all the real estate within the township making the subscription, in ..... the mortgagor. but this court through mr. justice nelson, recognized the cases of bronson v. kinzie and mccracken v. hayward as applicable to and decisive of the case. brine v. insurance company, 96 u. s. 627 , is worthy of notice because in that case the court had occasion to apply the principles of previous cases, announced in protection of the rights ..... the state upon a debt incurred by subscribing to the stock of a railroad company in accordance with its provisions. the case of conn. mutual life ins. co. v. cushman, 108 u. s. 51 , does not collide with the previous and subsequent cases. there, the new statute did not lessen the duty of the mortgagor .....
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..... in the business of banking in kansas or elsewhere, cannot be deducted, and no person, company, or corporation is entitled to any deduction on account of any bond, note, or obligation given to any mutual insurance company, or deferred payment or loan for a policy of life insurance, nor on account of any unpaid subscriptions to any religious, literary, scientific, or benevolent institution or ..... intelligently whether, within the case of mercantile bank, supra, there has been a real discrimination against the holders of national bank shares, and hence a violation of the above-cited act of congress. the single fact that the statute of kansas permits page 160 u. s. 668 some debts to be deducted from some moneyed capital, but not from that which .....
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..... or purchase the works or franchises of, or in any way control any other railroad corporation owning or having under its control a parallel or competing line, nor shall any officer of such railroad corporation act as the officer of any other railroad corporation owning or having the control of a parallel or competing line, and the question whether ..... s. 501 ; barbier v. connolly, 113 u. s. 27 ; charlotte, columbia &c.; railroad v. gibbes, 142 u. s. 386 ; lawton v. steele, 152 u. s. 133 ; eagle insurance co. v. ohio, 153 u. s. 446 . and so important is this power, and so necessary to the public safety and health, that it cannot be bargained away by the ..... incapable of any very exact definition or limitation. "upon it depends the security of social order, the life and health of the citizen, the comfort of an existence in a thickly populated community, the enjoyment of private and social life, and the beneficial use of property." the following cases show to what extent and for what purposes .....
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..... directions on the foot of this page 167 u. s. 446 decree, and the question of the indebtedness of joel parker, as receiver of the new jersey mutual life insurance company, and the former superintendent, john f. smyth, and william mcdermott, and messrs. harris and rudd, reported by the referee samuel prentiss, be reserved." subsequently to ..... there is no foundation for a decree without confession or proofs. however, the plaintiff has the benefit of the sequestration, which answers to the primum decretum. " while by act 5 geo. ii. c. 25, for want of appearance, when a defendant avoided service of process, the court was authorized, after the giving of prescribed public notice, ..... -- was the subjection of a fund in the hands of the superintendent of the insurance department of the state of new york to the satisfaction of claims against a new york insurance company which had become amalgamated with a new jersey corporation which had passed into the hands of a receiver. the new york company and the .....
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..... appeals for the eighth circuit. it appears from the complainants' bill that the northern pacific railroad company was a corporation created and existing by virtue of an act of congress approved july 2, 1864, entitled "an act granting lands to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from lake superior to puget sound, on ..... ought to answer only the third, fourth, and fifth. the first, second, and sixth come within our rulings in the cases of jewell v. knight, 123 u. s. 426 ; fire insurance association v. wickham, 128 u. s. 426 ; maynard v. hecht, 151 u. s. 324 ; graver v. faurot, 162 u. s. 435 ; cross v. evans, 167 u ..... by horse power, within this territory, or upon the equipment, appurtenances or appendages thereof, or upon any other property situated in this territory, belonging to the corporation owning or operating such railroads, or upon the capital stock or business transaction of such railroad company, there shall hereafter be paid into the treasury of this territory .....
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..... the said islands in excess of 7,500, to be taken from the islands for the subsistence of the natives, and to use promptly its best efforts to insure the enforcement of the prohibition. " page 171 u. s. 116 "tenth. that pursuant to such agreement, the united states prohibited and prevented the said defendant ..... of chapter 3 of title 23, revised statutes, and the north american commercial company, a corporation duly established under the laws of the state of california, and acting by i. liebes, its president, in accordance with a resolution of said corporation adopted at a meeting of its board of directors held january 4, 1890, witnesseth: that the ..... for religious worship, and will also provide a competent physician or physicians, and necessary and proper medicines and medical supplies, and will also provide the necessaries of life for the widows and orphans and aged and infirm inhabitants of said islands, who are unable to provide for themselves; all of which foregoing agreements will be .....
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..... appropriate to observe that the objections to the statute of tennessee do not necessarily embrace enactments that are found in some of the states requiring foreign insurance corporations, as a condition of their coming into the state for purposes of business, to deposit with the state treasurer funds sufficient to secure policy holders ..... be more tedious than difficult to enumerate. they may, however, be comprehended under the following general heads: protection by the government; the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right to acquire and possess property of every kind, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety -- subject nevertheless to such ..... presented. the company maintained its home office in london, its managing director resided there, and, after this suit was instituted, liquidation under the companies' acts of great britain was there ordered and begun. there were holders of debentures executed by the british company whose claims were not specifically adjudicated in the .....
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..... . 146, 62 u. s. 166 ; justices v. murray (1869), 9 wall. 274, 76 u. s. 277 ; miller v. life insurance co. (1870), 12 wall. 285, 79 u. s. 300 ; insurance co. v. comstock (1872), 16 wall. 258, 83 u. s. 269 ; insurance co. v. folsom (1873), 18 wall. 237, 85 u. s. 249 ; railroad co. v. fraloff (1879), 100 u. s ..... not only to prosecute his appeal, but to pay the judgment of the appellate court, in all those states except pennsylvania, and in that state any corporation, except a municipal corporation, is required to give such a bond, but other appellants are required to give bond for the payment of costs only. and we have not been ..... clear that the decisions of those courts, especially when they involve questions of the interpretation of the constitution of the united states and of the constitutionality and effect of acts of congress, cannot be considered as establishing the law or as relieving this court from the responsibility of exercising its own judgment. ex parte wilson (1885), 114 u .....
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..... personal property situated in massachusetts as against parties resident in new york who, subsequent to the assignment, had seized such property upon an attachment against the insolvent corporation. the assignment was executed under a statute of minnesota, the material provisions of which are hereinafter set forth. the instrument makes it the duty of the assignee ..... under the page 173 u. s. 633 assignment, it would not be enforced in iowa. it was said that the assignment, which was that of an insurance company, was invalid, and that in an action by the assignee for premiums collected by the defendants, who were agents of the company, the latter could offset ..... the assignee, with certain exceptions. the second section provides for putting an insolvent debtor into involuntary bankruptcy on petition of his creditors upon his committing certain acts of insolvency, and for the appointment by the court of a receiver with power to take possession of all his property not exempt, and distribute it .....
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..... was subject to taxation. this is the language of the court after its reference to the clason case, supra, page 48: "the case is different here. the foreign corporation had an agent here, where it received and where it sold fruit and received the price for the same. part of the proceeds were withheld in the hands of ..... from taxation accorded to debts in their ordinary significance, due to the foreign creditor." the last case to which our attention has been called is that of liverpool &c.; insurance company v. board of assessors, 51 la.ann. 1028. in that case, the court reaffirmed its prior rulings that "a debt due to a nonresident (still in non ..... and adjudge the omitted property to be subject to taxation. we need not extend our inquiries back of the year 1890, for in that year, the legislature passed an act amending the revenue statutes of prior years, and the questions therefore are whether, under that statute as interpreted by the supreme court, these properties were subject to taxation, .....
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