Taxing Statutes - Judgment Search Results

Danke-walker Milling Co. Vs. Bondurant

Court: US Supreme Court

..... could be secured on writ of error by the simple device of claiming that the taxing statute is invalid under the fourteenth amendment if construed so as to apply to the specific ..... a date so early as not to come within the act of september 6 1916 it is true that 237 of the judicial code which reenacted 709 of the revised statutes and 2 of the act of february 5 1967 c 28 14 stat 385 386 .....

Musammat Jeoni Vs. Kalloo and anr.

Court: Allahabad

Reported in: AIR1921All105(1); 60Ind.Cas.837

..... h l dattu jj meaning given to an expression in one statute cannot be applied to another statute it will appear from the statement of defence above referred to that ..... rent to a whom he thought to the person entitled to it and in another suit by a he might plead that since then he ..... rent to a whom he thought to the person entitled to it and in another suit by a he might plead that since then he .....

Dawson Vs. Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Co.

Court: US Supreme Court

..... officials to stay the proceedings in the federal court we do not decide strictly speaking it was not brought to enforce the statute in question but it is at least arguable that it might have been accepted by the state officials as a means to that end and .....

Seaboard Air Line Ry. Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... general language of the section were recognized because not within the evil at which the statute aimed it was intended to prevent frauds upon the treasury and the mischiefs designed to be remedied ..... receivers all of which changes of ownership have been declared without the ambit of the statute the same principle which required the exceptions heretofore approved applies here the judgment of the .....

Krichman Vs. United States

Court: US Supreme Court

..... any service for the government however humble is embraced within the terms of the statute it includes those not officers who are performing duties of an official character as was well ..... given in the courts below and insisted upon by the government practically recasts the statute from one embracing officials and those discharging official functions into one including every person discharging .....

United States Vs. Yuginovich

Court: US Supreme Court

..... warehouses for the storage and distribution of industrial alcohol from certain sections of the revised statutes it is well settled that in cases of this character the construction or sufficiency of the ..... inconsistent with the earlier enactments united states v tynen 11 wall 88 in construing penal statutes it is the rule that later enactments repeal former ones practically covering the same acts but .....

Miller and Lux Vs. Sacramento Drainage District

Court: US Supreme Court

..... an extensive area south of stockton the reclamation board appointed as directed by the statute levied a tax of 250 000 for general preliminary expenses incidental to the project and appointed assessors ..... absence of flagrant abuse or purely arbitrary action a state may establish drainage districts and tax lands therein for local improvements and that none of such lands may escape liability solely .....

Nickel Vs. Cole

Court: US Supreme Court

..... the trustees and thereafter was retained by them miller died on october 14 1916 the statute imposes a tax upon the transfer of all property which shall pass in trust or otherwise by will ..... canal co 243 u s 157 243 u s 164 and when as here the statute unquestionably might have made the tax applicable to this transfer we do not inquire very curiously into the reasoning by which .....

Yazoo and Mississippi Valley R. Co. Vs. Clarksdale

Court: US Supreme Court

..... creature shall be brought before judicial tribunals it was with reference to such a matter that mr justice bradley said that the statute of 1872 was peremptory and federal courts must conform to ..... of the defendant held the sale void saying statutes fixing the place of sale of lands under executions are mandatory and not merely directory and it is the imperative duty of officers to make such .....

Milwaukee Social Democratic Pub. Co. Vs. Burleson

Court: US Supreme Court

..... months a paper had contained almost daily articles which under the express terms of the statute rendered it nonmailable it was reasonable to conclude that it would continue its disloyal publications and it was therefore clearly within the power given to the postmaster general by rev stats 396 .....