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Citizens Savings Bank Vs. Sexton
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-17-1924
Citizens Savings Bank v. Sexton - 264 U.S. 310 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court Citizens Savings Bank v. Sexton, 264 U.S. 310 (1924) Citizens Savings Bank & Trust Company v. Sexton No. 261 Argued February 25, 1924 Decided March 17, 1924 264 U.S. 310 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON Syllabus 1. Where the parties to a note and mortgage are citizens of the same state, jurisdiction to collect the note by foreclose of the mortgage Page 264 U. S. 311 and deficiency judgment does not exist in the district court through diversity of citizenship if one of the defendants is a citizen of that state and the plaintiff, although of another state, acquired the obligations by assignment from the original obligee. Jud.Code 24. P. 264 U. S. 312 . 2. While this restriction does not apply to a plaintiff who, although nominally the assignee, was really the payee, the evidence in the present case fails to sustain the allegation that the pa...
Ftc Vs. American Tobacco Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-17-1924
FTC v. American Tobacco Co. - 264 U.S. 298 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court FTC v. American Tobacco Co., 264 U.S. 298 (1924) Federal Trade Commission v. American Tobacco Company Nos. 206 and 207 Argued March 7, 1924 Decided March 17, 1924 264 U.S. 298 ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 1. The clause of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 6(d), empowering the commission to investigate and report facts as to alleged violation of the Anti-Trust Acts when directed by either house of Congress will not support its demand for disclosure of the records of a corporation in an investigation directed by the Senate not based on such an alleged violation. P. 264 U. S. 305 . 2. The mere facts of carrying on commerce not confined within state lines and of being organized as a corporation do not make men's affairs public. Id. 3. A governmental fishing expedition into the papers of a private corporation, on the possibility that they may disclo...
Western Union Tel. Co. Vs. Czizek
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-10-1924
Western Union Tel. Co. v. Czizek - 264 U.S. 281 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court Western Union Tel. Co. v. Czizek, 264 U.S. 281 (1924) Western Union Telegraph Company v. Czizek No. 300 Argued February 26, 27, 1924 Decided March 10, 1924 264 U.S. 281 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. A contract between a telegraph company and the sender of an unrepeated interstate message, on a form filed with and approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, valued the message at $50.00 in default of any higher valuation specified by the sender and paid for at a higher rate, and relieved the company of liability beyond that sum for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery, or for the nondelivery of the message, caused by the negligence of its servants or otherwise. Held valid and applicable although the message was never transmitted, due to the inadvertence of a receiving clerk in filing it in the wrong place, and to subsequent mistaken assu...
Radice Vs. New York
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-10-1924
Radice v. New York - 264 U.S. 292 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court Radice v. New York, 264 U.S. 292 (1924) Radice v. New York No. 176 Argued January 17, 18, 1924 Decided March 10, 1924 264 U.S. 292 ERROR TO THE CITY COURT OF BUFFALO, STATE OF NEW YORK Syllabus 1. A New York statute prohibiting employment of women in restaurants in large cities (cities of the first and second class) between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. held not an arbitrary and undue interference with the liberty of contract of the women and their employers, but justifiable as a health measure. P. 264 U. S. 294 . Adkins v. Children's Hospital, 261 U. S. 525 , distinguished. 2. Whether this kind of work is so substantially and especially detrimental to the health and welfare of women engaging in it as to justify its suppression in their case is a question of fact as to which the Court is unable to say that the finding of the legislature was clearly unfounded. Id. 3. The regulation does not deny the equa...
Dorchy Vs. Kansas
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-10-1924
Dorchy v. Kansas - 264 U.S. 286 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court Dorchy v. Kansas, 264 U.S. 286 (1924) Dorchy v. Kansas No. 163 Argued January 15, 16, 1924 Decided March 10, 1924 264 U.S. 286 ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS Syllabus 1. The system of compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes set up by the Court of Industrial Relations Act of Kansas, and held unconstitutional in Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations, 262 U. S. 522 , as applied to packing plants, is, for the same reasons, invalid as applied to coal mines of that state. P. 264 U. S. 289 . Page 264 U. S. 287 2. Quaere whether, as a matter of statutory construction, 19 of this act, which declare that one who use his position as a officer of a union or as an employer to influence violations of the act or of valid orders of the Court of Industrial Relations shall be deemed guilty of a felony, is separable from the system of compulsory arbitration held invalid? P. 264 U. S. 290...
Chicago Junction Case
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-03-1924
Chicago Junction Case - 264 U.S. 258 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court Chicago Junction Case, 264 U.S. 258 (1924) The Chicago Junction Case * No. 489 Argued January 24, 1924 Decided March 3, 1924 264 U.S. 258 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Syllabus 1. An order of the Interstate Commerce Commission permitting one carrier to acquire control of another, made under par. 2 of 5 of the amended Act to Regulate Commerce, which allows this whenever the Commission is of opinion, after hearing, that the acquisition will be in the public interest, is subject to judicial review. P. 264 U. S. 263 . 2. Such an order is void if the finding that the acquisition will be in the public interest is made without supporting evidence. P. 264 U. S. 265 . 3. Facts conceivably known to the Commission but not put in evidence will not support an order. P. 264 U. S. 263 . 4. In a bill to set aside such an order, an allegation that such findin...
Manufacturers' Co. Vs. Fleet Corp.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-03-1924
Manufacturers' Co. v. Fleet Corp. - 264 U.S. 250 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court Manufacturers' Co. v. Fleet Corp., 264 U.S. 250 (1924) Manufacturers' Land & Improvement Co. v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation and Public Service Railway Company No. 181 Argued January 21, 1924 Decided March 3, 1924 264 U.S. 250 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Syllabus The Act of March 1, 1918, c.19, 40 Stat. 438, empowering the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to requisition land for the construction thereon of houses for employees, and the families of employee, of shipyards in which ships were being constructed for the United States, and to construct on such land for their use houses "and all other necessary or convenient facilities," etc., authorized the taking of land for an electric railway terminal, for the purpose of providing convenient transportation for employees of a nearby shipyard, and their families, for whom...
Smith Vs. Apple
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-03-1924
Smith v. Apple - 264 U.S. 274 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court Smith v. Apple, 264 U.S. 274 (1924) Smith v. Apple No. 124 Argued January 2, 1924 Decided March 3, 1924 264 U.S. 274 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF KANSAS Syllabus 1. Where a district court dismisses a suit upon the specific ground of want of jurisdiction, this Court, upon a sufficient certificate, acquires jurisdiction of a direct appeal, and whatever the reason assigned by the district court for the supposed want of jurisdiction must determine whether that court had and should have exercised the jurisdiction thus denied. P. 264 U. S. 277 . 2. But where a decree of the district court does not purport to be based upon a question of its jurisdiction, a subsequent certificate characterizing the ground of decision as one involving a question of jurisdiction does not authorize this Court to entertain the appeal unless the question certified presents an issue as to "the jurisdicti...
Erickson Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-03-1924
Erickson v. United States - 264 U.S. 246 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court Erickson v. United States, 264 U.S. 246 (1924) Erickson v. United States No. 125 Argued February 20, 1924 Decided March 3, 1924 264 U.S. 246 ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON Syllabus 1. A suit brought by the United States in the assertion of a substantial claim is within the jurisdiction of the district court under 24 of the Judicial Code, whatever the decision on the merits. P. 264 U. S. 249 . 2. Where the United States joined with the United States Spruce Production Corporation (a federal war instrumentality, cf. Clallam County v. United States, 263 U. S. 341 ) in an action on contracts made by the latter with the defendants, held that the case had the jurisdictional status of an action by the United States, irrespective of the merits of its claim, and that objection to the jurisdiction on the ground that the Corporation and one of Page 264 U...
First National Bank Vs. Louisiana Highway Comm'n
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-01-1924
First National Bank v. Louisiana Highway Comm'n - 264 U.S. 308 (1924) U.S. Supreme Court First National Bank v. Louisiana Highway Comm'n, 264 U.S. 308 (1924) First National Bank of Columbus, Ohio v. Louisiana Highway Commission No. 50 Motion to affirm submitted November 26, 1923 Decided March 1, 1924 264 U.S. 308 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA Syllabus An allegation of a bill in the district court that the amount involved exceed $3,000.00, exclusive of interest and costs, is not enough to show jurisdiction in that regard when the other allegations do not tend to support, but contradict, the claim. P. 264 U. S. 310 . Affirmed. On motion to affirm a decree of the district court dismissing a bill for want of jurisdiction. MR. JUSTICE BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court. Jurisdiction was invoked solely on the ground of diversity of citizenship. The district court held that the required amount, $3,000, was n...
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