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Southern Pacific Co. Vs. Icc
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-26-1906
Southern Pacific Co. v. ICC - 200 U.S. 536 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court Southern Pacific Co. v. ICC, 200 U.S. 536 (1906) Southern Pacific Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission No. 158-162 Argued January 23-24, 1906 Decided February 26, 1906 200 U.S. 536 APPEALS FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Syllabus The Southern Pacific and other railroads published a guaranteed through rate on citrus fruits from California to the Atlantic seaboard. The shippers availing of this rate routed the goods themselves from the terminals of the initial carriers and illegally obtained rebates for the routing from the connecting carriers. To prevent this -- and the action was successful -- the initial carriers republished the rate reserving the right to route the goods beyond their own terminals. On complaint of shippers, the Interstate Commerce Commission ordered the initial carriers to desist from enforcing the new rule, holding it violated 3 ...
Southern Pacific R. Co. Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1906
Southern Pacific R. Co. v. United States - 200 U.S. 341 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court Southern Pacific R. Co. v. United States, 200 U.S. 341 (1906) Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. United States No. 141 Argued January 24, 1906 Decided February 19, 1906 200 U.S. 341 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Although a suit in equity cannot be maintained where there is an adequate remedy at law, and this objection may be taken for the first time in the appellate court, still, if not raised until then, the court need not, if the subject matter of the suit is of a class over which it has jurisdiction, dismiss the bill, and so held in regard to a suit brought by the government, under an act of Congress, to recover from a railroad company the value of lands erroneously patented to and sold by it to numerous persons, some of whom were made defendants as representatives of the class, the bill also praying for cancellation of patents, quieting of titles...
Looney Vs. Metropolitan R. Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1906
Looney v. Metropolitan R. Co. - 200 U.S. 480 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court Looney v. Metropolitan R. Co., 200 U.S. 480 (1906) Looney v. Metropolitan Railroad Company No. 173 Argued December 14, 15, 1905 Decided February 19, 1906 200 U.S. 480 ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Syllabus In an action for damages for personal injuries, while the defendant has the burden of proof of contributory negligence, the plaintiff must. establish the grounds of defendant's liability, and to hold a master responsible, a servant must show by substantive proof that the appliances furnished were defective and knowledge of the defect or some omission in regard thereto. Negligence of defendant will not be inferred from the mere fact that the injury occurred, or from the presumption of care on the part of the plaintiff. There is equally a presumption that the defendant performed his duty. The facts are stated in the opinion. MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the C...
Rector Vs. Commercial National Bank
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1906
Rector v. Commercial National Bank - 200 U.S. 420 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court Rector v. Commercial National Bank, 200 U.S. 420 (1906) Rector v. Commercial National Bank No. 138 Submitted December 12, 1905 Decided February 19, 1906 200 U.S. 420 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OHIO Syllabus Rector v. City Deposit Bank, ante, p. 200 U. S. 405 , followed. The facts are stated in the opinion. Page 200 U. S. 421 MR. JUSTICE WHITE delivered the opinion of the Court. This case is governed by the principles which controlled the decision just announced in the case of the same plaintiff in error against the City Deposit Bank Company, No. 137. In the trial court judgment was prayed for $970.45, on the ground that, on April 10, 1900, that amount of money, the property of Reinhard & Company, had been by that firm transferred to the defendant in error, and that the transaction constituted a voidable preference. The answer was in substance a general denial of the allegatio...
Strickley Vs. Highland Boy Gold Mining Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1906
Strickley v. Highland Boy Gold Mining Co. - 200 U.S. 527 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court Strickley v. Highland Boy Gold Mining Co., 200 U.S. 527 (1906) Strickley v. Highland Boy Gold Mining Company No. 172 Argued January 25, 1906 Decided February 19, 1906 200 U.S. 527 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF UTAH Syllabus If a state statute as construed by the highest court of the state is constitutional, this Court will follow that construction. There is nothing in the Fourteenth Amendment which prevents a state in carrying out its declared public policy from requiring individuals to make to each other, on due compensation, such concessions as the public welfare demands, and the statute of Utah providing that eminent domain may be exercised for railways and other means to facilitate the working of mines is not unconstitutional. Clark v. Nash, 198 U. S. 361 , followed. The facts are stated in the opinion. Page 200 U. S. 529 MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the...
United States Vs. Detroit Lumber Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1906
United States v. Detroit Lumber Co. - 200 U.S. 321 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Detroit Lumber Co., 200 U.S. 321 (1906) United States v. Detroit Timber and Lumber Company Nos. 106, 165 Argued December 7, 1905 Decided February 19, 1906 200 U.S. 321 APPEAL AND CROSS-APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Syllabus The rule of law concerning good faith is the same in respect to purchases of land and timber as that which obtains in other commercial transactions, and no one is bound to assume that the party with whom he deals is a wrongdoer; but, on paying full value for the property presented, the title to which is apparently valid and in regard to which there are no suspicious circumstances, he will acquire the rights of a bona fide purchaser. Equity looks at the substance, and not at the mere form in which a transaction takes place, and constructive fraud in the entries of land purchased Page 200 U. S. 322 by one company from another...
Rector Vs. City Deposit Bank Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1906
Rector v. City Deposit Bank Co. - 200 U.S. 405 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court Rector v. City Deposit Bank Co., 200 U.S. 405 (1906) Rector v. City Deposit Bank Company No. 137 Submitted December 12, 1905 Decided February 19, 1906 200 U.S. 405 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OHIO Syllabus Where a trustee in bankruptcy seeks to recover in a state court what is asserted to be an asset under the bankrupt law, the denial of the asserted right is a denial of a right or title specially claimed under a law of the United States, and presents a federal question reviewable in this Court by writ of error under 709, Rev.Stat. While a certificate of a court of last resort of a state may not import into a record a federal question not otherwise existing, such certificate serves to elucidate whether such federal question does exist. While this Court is bound by the facts found by a state court, where that court does not find the facts, but instructs a verdict on the ground that the...
Missouri Vs. Illinois
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1906
Missouri v. Illinois - 200 U.S. 496 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court Missouri v. Illinois, 200 U.S. 496 (1906) Missouri v. Illinois No. 4, Original Argued January 2-4, 1906 Decided February 19, 1906 200 U.S. 496 Syllabus Missouri filed its bill in this Court to enjoin Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from discharging sewage through an artificial channel connecting Lake Michigan with the Desplaines River, a tributary of the Illinois, the latter of which empties into the Mississippi River above St. Louis, claiming that such sewage so polluted the water of the Mississippi as to render it unfit to drink and productive of typhoid fever and other diseases. Illinois denied the jurisdiction of this Court, and the allegations of the bill, and alleged that, if the conditions complained of at St. Louis existed, they resulted from discharge of sewage into the Mississippi by cities of Missouri and from other causes for which Illinois was not responsible. A demurrer was overruled, wi...
United States Vs. Bitter Root Dev. Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1906
United States v. Bitter Root Dev. Co. - 200 U.S. 451 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Bitter Root Dev. Co., 200 U.S. 451 (1906) United States v. Bitter Root Development Company No. 23 Argued January 8, 9, 1906 Decided February 19, 1906 200 U.S. 451 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Notwithstanding averments in the bill of fraud, conspiracy, and violation of trust, if the action is really one of trespass or trover to recover damages for wrongful cutting and conversion of timber from complainant's lands, and there is no question of defendant's financial responsibility, and the recovery of a money judgment and not of specific property is sought, complainant's remedy at law is adequate, and equity has no jurisdiction; nor can equity take jurisdiction merely because of the difficulty of proving the case on account of various devices alleged to have been used by defendants, or because the principal defendant is an executor of a part...
Southern Pacific R. Co. Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1906
Southern Pacific R. Co. v. United States - 200 U.S. 354 (1906) U.S. Supreme Court Southern Pacific R. Co. v. United States, 200 U.S. 354 (1906) Southern Pacific Railroad Company v. United States No. 142 Argued January 24, 25, 1906 Decided February 19, 1906 200 U.S. 354 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Southern Pacific Railroad v. United States, No. 1, ante, p. 200 U. S. 341 , followed as to the power of the court to maintain this suit in equity and as to the validity of the acts of Congress of 1887 and 1896 for the adjustment of railroad land grants. Held also that: Lands which at the time a railroad grant attached by the filing and approval of the map of definite location were within the claimed but undetermined limits of a Mexican grant did not pass to the railroad company although within the place limits of its grant, and this notwithstanding the fact that, by the final survey and patent they were excluded from the Mexican g...
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