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California Vs. Deseret Water, Oil and Irrig. Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-26-1917
California v. Deseret Water, Oil & Irrig. Co. - 243 U.S. 415 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court California v. Deseret Water, Oil & Irrig. Co., 243 U.S. 415 (1917) California v. Deseret Water, Oil & Irrigation Company No. 269 Argued January 29, 1917 Decided March 26, 1917 243 U.S. 415 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Syllabus When the decision of the state court in the application of state laws to real property is controlled by a construction of federal statutes concerning the title, which were relied on by the party complaining, this Court has jurisdiction to review the judgment. When a forest reservation is made to include a school section previously surveyed, the state may waive its right to the section and select other lands in lieu, under 2275, 2276, Rev.Stats., as amended by the Act of March 3, 1891, c. 384, 26 Stat. 796. This Court will not readily disturb a construction of a land law by the Land Department which, though differing from an earlier one, h...
Lehigh Valley R. Co. Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-26-1917
Lehigh Valley R. Co. v. United States - 243 U.S. 412 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court Lehigh Valley R. Co. v. United States, 243 U.S. 412 (1917) Lehigh Valley Railroad Company v. United States No. 733 Argued March 15, 1917 Decided March 26, 1917 243 U.S. 412 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA Syllabus The district court is without jurisdiction over an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, negative in substance and form, in which the Commission declined to exercise its authority under the "Panama Canal Act" of August 24, 1912, c. 390, 11, 37 Stat. 60, 566, to extend the period fixed in the act for the divorcement of railroad and water carriers. Procter & Gamble Co. v. United States, 225 U. S. 282 . 234 F. 682 affirmed. The case is stated in the opinion. MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court. This is a bill to prevent the enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission. On December...
Chicago and Alton R. Co. Vs. Mcwhirt
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-26-1917
Chicago & Alton R. Co. v. McWhirt - 243 U.S. 422 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court Chicago & Alton R. Co. v. McWhirt, 243 U.S. 422 (1917) Chicago & Alton Railroad Company v. McWhirt No. 714 Argued January 29, 30, 1917 Decided March 26, 1917 243 U.S. 422 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI Syllabus A provision in the special charter of a railroad company permitting the grantee to lease its road to any other railroad company "upon such terms as may be mutually agreed upon" is not to be construed as authority for the lessor and lessee to determine what shall be their respective liabilities to third persons who may be tortiously injured in the operation of the road when leased; therefore it creates no contract right which would be impaired by subsequent general legislation rendering the lessor and lessee jointly liable for such torts when committed by the latter, and this quite apart from any power of the legislature to alter or amend the charter. A state law rendering...
Utah Power and Light Co. Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-19-1917
Utah Power & Light Co. v. United States - 243 U.S. 389 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court Utah Power & Light Co. v. United States, 243 U.S. 389 (1917) Utah Power & Light Co. v. United States Nos. 202-207 Argued October 11, 12, 1916 Decided March 19, 1917 243 U.S. 389 APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF UTAH Syllabus The power to regulate the use of the lands of the United States, and to prescribe the conditions upon which rights in them may be acquired by others, is vested exclusively in Congress. The inclusion of such lands within a state does not diminish this power, or subject the lands or interests in them to disposition by the state Page 243 U. S. 390 power, and therefore such lands, within a state, or ways across them, are not subject to be occupied or used for private or quasi -public purposes, under state laws, save such laws as have been adopted or made applicable by Congress. The Act of May 14, 1896, c. 179, 29 Stat. 120, relating...
Wilson Vs. New
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-19-1917
Wilson v. New - 243 U.S. 332 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court Wilson v. New, 243 U.S. 332 (1917) Wilson v. New No. 797 Argued January 8, 9, 10, 1917 Decided March 19, 1917 243 U.S. 332 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI Syllabus The effect of the Act of September 3, 5, 1916, entitled "An Act to establish an eight-hour day for employees of carriers engaged in interstate and foreign commerce, and for other purposes," c. 436, 39 Stat. 721, is not only to establish permanently an eight-hour standard for work and wages as between the carriers and employees affected, but also to fix a scale of minimum wages, to-wit, the rate of wages then existing, for the eight-hour day and proportionately for overtime, to be in force only during the limited period defined by the act. Viewed as an act establishing an eight-hour day as the standard of service by employees, the statute is clearly within the power of Congress under the commerce clause...
United States Vs. Cress
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-12-1917
United States v. Cress - 243 U.S. 316 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Cress, 243 U.S. 316 (1917) United States v. Cress Nos. 84, 718 Argued December 13, 1916 Decided March 12, 1917 243 U.S. 316 ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF KENTUCKY Syllabus The servitude to the interests of navigation of privately owned lands forming the banks and bed of a stream is a natural servitude, confined to such streams as in their ordinary and natural condition are susceptible of valuable public use in navigation, and confined to the natural condition of such streams. When navigable streams affording ways of commerce between states are improved by the federal government by means of locks and dams which raise the water above its natural level, the streams as thus improved remain navigable waters of the United States for all purposes of federal jurisdiction and regulation. The power of the federal government to improve navigable streams in ...
Bay Vs. Merrill and Ring Logging Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-06-1917
Bay v. Merrill & Ring Logging Co. - 243 U.S. 40 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court Bay v. Merrill & Ring Logging Co., 243 U.S. 40 (1917) Bay v. Merrill & Ring Logging Company No. 165 Argued January 30, 31, 1917 Decided March 6, 1917 243 U.S. 40 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus Upon a state of facts not substantially different from those presented in McCluskey v. Marysville & Northern Railway Co., ante, 243 U. S. 36 , held that the defendant in error, in hauling its logs from its own timberlands over its own railroad to tidewater (origin, destination, and transit all being in the same state) for sale to others who subsequently Page 243 U. S. 41 disposed of them or their manufactured products partly in other states, was not engaged in interstate or foreign commerce, and that the injuries suffered by the plaintiff while loading logs upon one of defendant's cars were therefore not remediable under the federal Employers' Liability Act. 220 F. 2...
Wellsville Oil Co. Vs. Miller
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-06-1917
Wellsville Oil Co. v. Miller - 243 U.S. 6 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court Wellsville Oil Co. v. Miller, 243 U.S. 6 (1917) Wellsville Oil Company v. Miller No. 541 Argued December 6, 1916 Decided March 6, 1917 243 U.S. 6 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Syllabus A controversy in a state court involving the power of the United States Court of the Indian Territory to authorize and approve a lease of an Indian allotment, subject, however, to the condition that it be approved also by the Secretary of the Interior before becoming operative, and involving also the validity and effect of such a lease so judicially authorized and approved but disapproved by the Secretary, and the power of the Secretary to disapprove it, held, reviewable in this Court as concerning matters inherently federal. The United States Court for the Indian Territory, in authorizing the guardian of a Cherokee minor to lease her allotment, conditioned the authority upon the approval of the lease...
Gannon Vs. Johnson
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-06-1917
Gannon v. Johnson - 243 U.S. 108 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court Gannon v. Johnson, 243 U.S. 108 (1917) Gannon v. Johnson No. 131 Argued December 2, 1916 Decided March 6, 1917 243 U.S. 108 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Syllabus Under the Choctaw-Chickasaw supplemental agreement of July 1, 1902, 11, 12, 15 and 16, 32 Stat. 641, surplus lands, selected by a member of the Chickasaw Tribe, become alienable only with the expiration of the respective periods after patent fixed in 16; these restrictions accompany the land when it passes to a tribal member by inheritance, and a conveyance by him while the periods are running is void. Mullen v. United States, 224 U. S. 48 , distinguished. The Act of April 26, 1906, 34 Stat. 137, in providing that conveyances of allotments made after selection should not be declared invalid solely because made prior to patent, was not intended to validate deeds made before removal of restrictions on alienation; on the contrary, ...
Donohue Vs. Vosper
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-06-1917
Donohue v. Vosper - 243 U.S. 59 (1917) U.S. Supreme Court Donohue v. Vosper, 243 U.S. 59 (1917) Donohue v. Vosper No. 445 Argued January 26, 1917 Decided March 6, 1917 243 U.S. 59 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN Syllabus When it appears by the state court's opinion that both parties relied upon the construction and effect to be given a decree of a federal court, and that the court applied it against one of them, rejecting the construction relied on by the other, a federal question is presented which this Court may determine on writ of error. In a suit by the United States to determine the title to certain land, rival claims, arising independently under the public land laws and based on facts existing before the litigation, were asserted by two individuals on the one part and by two corporations on another. One of the individuals had deeded to the other with warranty before the suit, and the second corporation had succeeded to the first during its progre...
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