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Davis Vs. Dantzler Lumber Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-26-1923
Davis v. Dantzler Lumber Co. - 261 U.S. 280 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court Davis v. Dantzler Lumber Co., 261 U.S. 280 (1923) Davis v. Dantzler Lumber Company No. 228 Argued January 17, 1923 Decided February 26, 1923 261 U.S. 280 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Syllabus Under the Federal Control Act, 10, a carrier or the Director General of Railroads could not, during federal control, be subjected to garnishment in a state court. P. 261 U. S. 286 . 126 Miss. 812 reversed. Certiorari to a judgment rendered by the Supreme Court of Mississippi against the Director General of Railroads as garnishee. MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the Court. This case presents an asserted conflict between the laws of Mississippi, subjecting property to attachment, and the statutes of the United States which empowered the President to take control of the railroad transportation systems of the United States and exempt their property from state processes. ...
Munter Vs. Weil Corset Co., Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-26-1923
Munter v. Weil Corset Co., Inc. - 261 U.S. 276 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court Munter v. Weil Corset Co., Inc., 261 U.S. 276 (1923) Munter v. Weil Corset Company, Inc. No. 255 Argued January 22, 1923 Decided February 26, 1923 261 U.S. 276 ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT Syllabus 1. In an action on contract in the district court, valid service on the defendant cannot be made in another district and state. P. 261 U. S. 277 . 2. Motion by a defendant in the district court that the cause be "erased from the docket" for want of proper service held in effect a motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction. P. 261 U. S. 277 . 3. The methods of raising questions of jurisdiction in the federal courts are not controlled by state procedure and the Conformity Act (Rev.Stats. 914), but are determined by this Court. P. 261 U. S. 278 . 4. A defendant who seasonably objects to a void service of process does not submit to the jurisdiction ...
Gorham Mfg. Co. Vs. Wendell
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1923
Gorham Mfg. Co. v. Wendell - 261 U.S. 1 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court Gorham Mfg. Co. v. Wendell, 261 U.S. 1 (1923) Gorham Manufacturing Company v. Wendell No.196 Argued on return to rule to show cause January 22, 1923 Decided February 19, 1923 261 U.S. 1 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus 1. In proceedings in the federal courts to enjoin state officials from collecting a tax alleged to violate the federal Constitution, the successors of such officials may be substituted as parties when such substitutions are permitted in the courts of the state. P. 261 U. S. 3 . 2. In view of the New York practice, and the consent of the parties substituted, held that the State Tax Commission might be substituted for the State Comptroller, whose functions have been transferred to it, and the State Attorney General for his predecessor in that office. P. 261 U. S. 5 . This case is here on an appeal from a decree of the Distr...
Diaz Vs. Gonzalez
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1923
Diaz v. Gonzalez - 261 U.S. 102 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court Diaz v. Gonzalez, 261 U.S. 102 (1923) Diaz v. Gonzalez No. 263 Argued January 24, 1923 Decided February 19, 1923 261 U.S. 102 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. Power to authorize a parent to sell the interest of a minor child in land in Porto Rico is not limited by the Porto Rican Civil Code, 229, as amended in 1907, to the district court of the judicial district in which the property is situated, but may be exercised, under 76 and 77 of the Code of Civ.Proc.1904, by the court of another district to which the ex parte application is submitted. P. 261 U. S. 103 . 2. An interpretation of law which has become a rule of property, accepted by the practise of a community, should not be disturbed unless certainly wrong. P. 261 U. S. 105 . 3. Peculiar deference is due from this Court to the views of local matters taken by courts which, like the courts of Porto Rico, have i...
Charles Nelson Co. Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1923
Charles Nelson Co. v. United States - 261 U.S. 17 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court Charles Nelson Co. v. United States, 261 U.S. 17 (1923) Charles Nelson Company v. United States No. 287 Argued January 25, 26, 1923 Decided February 19, 1923 261 U.S. 17 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS Syllabus A contract for furnishing lumber to the government at a specified price contained a clause obliging the contractor to deliver any quantities ordered in a certain period irrespective of the estimated quantity named in the contract. Held that the contractor, in furnishing lumber in excess of that quantity and in accepting the contract price therefor without protest, knowing that the government was relying on the contract, waived his right to insist that the clause was void for lack of mutuality, and could not recover the difference between the contract and higher, market prices for the excess so furnished. P. 261 U. S. 19 . 56 Ct.Clms. 448 affirmed. Appeal from a judgment of the Court of C...
Great Northern Ry. Co. Vs. Steinke
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1923
Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Steinke - 261 U.S. 119 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court Great Northern Ry. Co. v. Steinke, 261 U.S. 119 (1923) Great Northern Railway Company v. Steinke No. 152 Argued December 5, 1922 Decided February 19, 1923 261 U.S. 119 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA Syllabus 1. The Act of March 3, 1875, granting railroad rights of way and station grounds in the public lands, should receive a more liberal construction than acts making private grants or extensive grants of land to railroads. P. 261 U. S. 124 . 2. Where a railroad, under this statute, with approval of the Land Department, secured station grounds in lieu of others nearby, previously selected, persons who were without interest in the premises at the time cannot object that the second selection was void because the first one exhausted the right. P. 261 U. S. 125 . 3. In a suit by a railroad company to quiet its title to lands included in a station-grounds map which was f...
Valley Farms Co. Vs. County of Westchester
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1923
Valley Farms Co. v. County of Westchester - 261 U.S. 155 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court Valley Farms Co. v. County of Westchester, 261 U.S. 155 (1923) Valley Farms Co. v. County of Westchester No. 136 Argued January 24, 1923 Decided February 19, 1923 261 U.S. 155 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK Syllabus 1. A state legislature may, without notice to property owners, establish a sewer district and direct that the cost of the sewer be assessed upon the real property within the district in proportion to its value as ascertained for purposes of general taxation. P. 261 U. S. 162 . 2. It is not a valid objection to such an assessment, under the Fourteenth Amendment, that the property assessed can receive no direct benefit where it ultimately may be benefited by future extensions of the sewer. P. 261 U. S. 163 . 3. Nor is it of importance from the constitutional standpoint that the sewer had been completed before the boundaries of the district were established...
Lumiere Vs. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1923
Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc. - 261 U.S. 174 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc., 261 U.S. 174 (1923) Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, Inc. No. 242 Argued January 18, 1923 Decided February 19, 1923 261 U.S. 174 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus Under the provision of the Copyright Act that suits "may be instituted in the district of which the defendant or his agent is an inhabitant, or in which he may be found," jurisdiction cannot be acquired over a corporation in a district where it has no office and does no business, by serving process on its president while there temporarily and not on business of the corporation. P. 261 U. S. 177 . Affirmed. Appeal from an order of the district court quashing service of a subpoena ad respondendum. Page 261 U. S. 176 MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court. The venue of suits for infringement of copyright is not determined by th...
Cramer Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1923
Cramer v. United States - 261 U.S. 219 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court Cramer v. United States, 261 U.S. 219 (1923) Cramer v. United States No. 207 Argued January 15, 16, 1923 Decided February 19, 1923 261 U.S. 219 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. Lands definitely occupied by individual Indians were excepted from the Central Pacific grant of July 25, 1866, c. 242, 14 Stat. 239, as lands "reserved . . . or otherwise disposed of." P. 261 U. S. 226 . 2. Such possessory rights, though not recognized by any statute or other formal governmental action of the time, were protected by the settled policy of the government towards the Indians. P. 261 U. S. 229 . 3. The Act of March 3, 1851, which required that claims of rights in lands in California derived from Spain and Mexico be presented for settlement within a specified time, and directed the Commission thereby created to inquire into the tenures of certain Indians, has no application to ...
United States Vs. Oklahoma
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Feb-19-1923
United States v. Oklahoma - 261 U.S. 253 (1923) U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Oklahoma, 261 U.S. 253 (1923) United States v. Oklahoma No. 25, Original Argued on motion to dismiss January 2, 1923 Decided February 19, 1923 261 U.S. 253 I N EQUITY Syllabus 1. The right to priority of payment provided for by Rev.Stats. 3466, attaches when the conditions specified by the section come into existence, and it cannot be impaired or superseded by a state law. P. 261 U. S. 259 . 2. The State of Oklahoma acquires no lien on the assets of a state bank under 303 of c. 6, Rev.Laws Okla.1910, before possession of the bank has been taken by the state bank commissioner. P. 261 U. S. 260 . 3. The word "insolvent," as used in Rev.Stats. 3466, and the Bankruptcy Law, applies only where a debtor's property is insufficient to pay all his debts. P. 261 U. S. 260 . 4. But "insolvent," in the sense of the Oklahoma statute, supra, where it authorizes the bank commissioner, upon be...
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