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Hood v. Wallace - 182 U.S. 555 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Hood v. Wallace, 182 U.S. 555 (1901) Hood v. Wallace No. 179 Argued March 11, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 182 U.S. 555 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Lantry v. Wallace, ante, 182 U. S. 536 , followed. The case is stated in the opinion. MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court. The pleadings in this case are the same as in Lantry v. Wallace, just decided. The demurrer to the answer and cross-petition of Hood was sustained in an elaborate opinion by Judge Philips, holding the circuit court. 89 F. 11. The Page 182 U. S. 556 judgment in that court was affirmed in the circuit court of appeals. Lantry v. Wallace, 97 F. 865. For the reasons stated in the opinion just rendered in Lantry's case, the judgment in this case is Affirmed. ...
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Armstrong v. United States - 182 U.S. 243 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Armstrong v. United States, 182 U.S. 243 (1901) Armstrong v. United States No. 609 Argued January 8-11, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 82 U.S. 243 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS Syllabus Dooley v. United States, ante, 182 U. S. 222 , followed. This was a petition to the Court of Claims by a British subject, to recover duties exacted by the collector of the port of San Juan, and paid under protest, upon goods, wares, and merchandise of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United States, between August 12, 1898, and December 5, 1899. The same demurrer was filed and the same judgment was entered as in the preceding case. Page 182 U. S. 244 MR. JUSTICE BROWN delivered the opinion of the Court. This case is controlled by the case of Dooley v. United States, No. 501, just decided. So far as the duties were exacted upon goods imported prior to the ratification of the Treaty of April 11, 1899, they were p...
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Carson v. Brockton Sewerage Comm'n - 182 U.S. 398 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Carson v. Brockton Sewerage Comm'n, 182 U.S. 398 (1901) Carson v. Brockton Sewerage Commission No. 248 Argued April 18, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 182 U.S. 398 ERROR TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS Syllabus Whether the construction of a public sewer by assessments upon adjoining property entitles the owners of such property to the free use of such sewer, or only to the right to a free entrance to it of their particular sewers, is a question of local policy. Notwithstanding that such sewer was built by assessments upon the property benefited, it is competent for the legislature to require persons making use of it to pay a reasonable sum for such use. Where an ordinance fixes the charges that shall be paid for the use of a common sewer, no notice is required to be given to the property owners of an assessment for that purpose. This was a petition to the justices of the Supreme Judicial ...
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Commercial Bank v. Chambers - 182 U.S. 556 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Commercial Bank v. Chambers, 182 U.S. 556 (1901) Commercial Bank v. Chambers No. 270 Argued and submitted April 26, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 182 U.S. 556 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF UTAH Syllabus As the Constitution of Utah distinguished between stock and credits in determining the amount of property of a national bank subject to taxation, shares of stock were not credits, and resident and nonresident shareholders were not entitled to deduct bona fide indebtedness from their shares of stock. The assessed value of real estate owned by a bank in other states than that in which the bank is located is not to be deducted in determining the amount of assessable property of the bank, unless authorized by the laws of the state in which the bank is situated. The plaintiff in error is a national banking association doing business at Ogden City, Weber County, Utah. The action below was brought by ...
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Huus v. New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co. - 182 U.S. 392 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Huus v. New York & Porto Rico Steamship Co., 182 U.S. 392 (1901) Huus v. New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company No. 811 Argued January 11, 14, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 182 U.S. 392 CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus Vessels engaged in trade between Porto Rican ports and ports of the United States are engaged in the coasting trade in the sense in which those words are used in tile New York pilotage statutes, and steam vessels engaged in such trade are coastwise steam vessels under Revised Statutes, section 4444. This was a libel filed in the District Court for the Southern District of New York to recover spoken pilotage upon the American built steamship Ponce, belonging to the defendant, a New York corporation. The facts were that libellant, on June 25, 1900, offered his service as a Sandy Hook pilot to the master of the Ponce, then about ...
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Downes v. Bidwell - 182 U.S. 244 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901) Downes v. Bidwell No. 507 Argued January 8-11, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 * 182 U.S. 244 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus By MR. JUSTICE BROWN, in announcing the conclusion and judgment of the Court. The circuit courts have jurisdiction, regardless of amount, of actions against a collector of customs for duties exacted and paid under protest upon merchandise alleged not to have been imported. The Island of Porto Rico is not a part of the United States within that provision of the Constitution which declares that "all duties, imposts, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States." Page 182 U. S. 245 There is a clear distinction between such prohibitions of the Constitution as go to the very root of the power of Congress to act at all, irrespective of time or place, and such as are operative only throu...
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Homer Ramsdell Trans. Co. v. La Compagnie &c.; - 182 U.S. 406 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Homer Ramsdell Trans. Co. v. La Compagnie &c.;, 182 U.S. 406 (1901) Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company v. La Compagnie Generale Transatlantique No. 166 Argued March 6, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 182 U.S. 406 CERTIFICATE FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus The statutes of New York impose compulsory pilotage on foreign vessels inward and outward bound to and from the port of New York by way of Sandy Hook. In an action at common law, the shipowner is not liable for injuries inflicted exclusively by negligence of a pilot accepted by a vessel compulsorily. This was an action at law, brought by the Homer Ramsdell Transportation Company, a corporation of New York, against the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique, a corporation of the Republic of France, to recover damages caused by the defendant's steamship, The Bretagne, striking and injuring the plaintiff's p...
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Lake Street Elevated R. Co. v. Farmers' L. & T. Co. - 182 U.S. 417 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Lake Street Elevated R. Co. v. Farmers' L. & T. Co., 182 U.S. 417 (1901) Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company No. 669 Submitted May 13, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 182 U.S. 417 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS Syllabus The action of the Supreme Court of Illinois in this case on April 17, 1901, was a full compliance with the mandate of this Court in this case, 177 U. S. 177 U.S. 61. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. MR. JUSTICE SHIRAS delivered the opinion of the Court. When this cause was before us at October Term, 1899, it was determined that the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois had attached as respected the Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company and its property before the institution by the Lake Street Elevated Railroad Company in the Superior Court of...
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Simon v. Craft - 182 U.S. 427 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Simon v. Craft, 182 U.S. 427 (1901) Simon v. Craft No. 191 Argued March 12, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 182 U.S. 427 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA Syllabus The essential elements of due process of law are notice and opportunity to defend, and in determining whether such rights are denied, the Court is governed by the substance of things, and not by mere form. A person charged with being of unsound mind is not denied due process of law by being refused an opportunity to defend when in fact actual notice was served upon him of the proceedings, and when, if he had chosen to do so, he was at liberty to make such defenses as he deemed advisable. The due process clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution does not necessitate that the proceedings in a state court should be by a particular mode, but only that there shall be a regular course of proceedings, in which notice is given of the claim ...
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Calhoun Gold Mining Co. v. Ajax Gold Mining Co. - 182 U.S. 499 (1901) U.S. Supreme Court Calhoun Gold Mining Co. v. Ajax Gold Mining Co., 182 U.S. 499 (1901) Calhoun Gold Mining Company v. Ajax Gold Mining Company No.195 Argued March 13-14, 1901 Decided May 27, 1901 182 U.S. 499 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF COLORADO Syllabus The rights conferred upon the locators of mining locations by Rev.Stat. 2322, are not subject to the right of way expressed in 2323, and are not limited by 2336. As to 2336, by giving to the oldest or prior location, where veins unite, all ore or mineral within the space of intersection, and the vein below the point of union, the prior location takes no more, notwithstanding that 2322 gives to such prior location the exclusive right of possession and enjoyment of all the surface included within the limits of the location, and of all veins, lodes and ledges throughout their entire depth, the top or apex of which lies inside of such su...
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