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Disconto-gesellschaft Vs. U.S. Steel Corporation
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-26-1925
Disconto-Gesellschaft v. U.S. Steel Corporation - 267 U.S. 22 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court Disconto-Gesellschaft v. U.S. Steel Corporation, 267 U.S. 22 (1925) Direction der Disconto-Gesellschaft v. United States Steel Corporation Nos. 676 and 677 Argued January 9, 1925 Decided January 26, 1925 267 U.S. 22 APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Syllabus 1. Certificates of shares in a New Jersey corporation, endorsed in blank and owned and held by German corporations, were seized Page 267 U. S. 23 in London during the late war by the Public Trustee, a corporation sole appointed under the English law to be custodian of enemy property. Held that the ownership of the paper was dependent upon the law of the place where it was at the time, viz., England, and, as the things done in England transferred the title to the certificates to the Public Trustee by English law and as, by the law of New Jersey and the law of England, the...
Lederer Vs. Fidelity Trust Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-26-1925
Lederer v. Fidelity Trust Co. - 267 U.S. 17 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court Lederer v. Fidelity Trust Co., 267 U.S. 17 (1925) Lederer v. Fidelity Trust Company No. 184 Argued January 15, 16, 1925 Decided January 26, 1925 267 U.S. 17 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. Railroad equipment certificates issued by a trust company as security for money advanced by a syndicate to purchase equipment leased by the trust company to a railroad under contract for periodical payments, as rentals, and ultimate acquisition of title by the latter, and which are payable with interest to bearer or registered holder from the rentals thus to be paid by the railroad, held subject to stamp tax under Title XI, 1100 and schedule A(1) of the Act of February 24, 1919, c. 18, as in the category of "instruments . . . issued by any corporation . . . known generally as corporate securities." P. 267 U. S. 20 . 28 F. 1009 reversed. Page 267 U. S. 18 Certiorari to...
New Mexico Vs. Colorado
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-26-1925
New Mexico v. Colorado - 267 U.S. 30 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court New Mexico v. Colorado, 267 U.S. 30 (1925) New Mexico v. Colorado No. 12 Original Argued December 2, 3, 1924 Decided January 26, 1925 267 U.S. 30 I N EQUITY Syllabus 1. A line surveyed and marked in 1868 as the location of the parallel designated as the common boundary of the Territories, and later the States, of Colorado and New Mexico was adopted and recognized by the United States as the true location and boundary both during the existence of the two Territories and thereafter while New Mexico remained a Territory and Colorado was a state; it was likewise accepted and relied on by the State of Colorado from her admission in 1876, and by the State of New Mexico from her admission in 1912, until she brought this suit against Colorado in 1919, wherein she claimed that another survey and location, made in 1903 under an appropriation from Congress, and which had been accepted by the General Land Office from 1904 t...
College Point Boat Corp. Vs. United States
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-19-1925
College Point Boat Corp. v. United States - 267 U.S. 12 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court College Point Boat Corp. v. United States, 267 U.S. 12 (1925) College Point Boat Corp. v. United States No. 121 Argued November 17, 1924 Decided January 19, 1925 267 U.S. 12 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF CLAIMS Syllabus 1. Claimant's preparations to perform its contract for furnishing supplies to the Navy were stopped as the result of steps taken by the Navy Department for the purpose of avoiding useless production, without manifested intention to cancel the contract and without giving the notice requisite to the exercise of the unconditional right of cancellation existing under the Act of June 15, 1917 ( Russell Motor Car Co. v. United States, 261 U. S. 514 ), pursuant to which the contract was made. Held, that there was no cancellation as a matter of law, and that the stoppage of performance was an anticipatory breach. P. 267 U. S. 15 . 2. The government's right of cancellation, under the ...
Guardian Savings and Trust Co. Vs. Road Imp. Dist.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-19-1925
Guardian Savings & Trust Co. v. Road Imp. Dist. - 267 U.S. 1 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court Guardian Savings & Trust Co. v. Road Imp. Dist., 267 U.S. 1 (1925) Guardian Savings & Trust Co. v. Road Improvement District No. 7 No. 389 Argued January 8, 1925 Decided January 19, 1925 267 U.S. 1 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEAL FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT Syllabus When state legislation has authorized and confirmed assessments of benefits on lands of a special improvement district and the mortgaging of these taxes as security for bonds to be sold to the public, and has provided in terms for collection of the taxes through a receiver to be appointed by a state court to pay the bonds in case of default, and the bonds are bought by the public upon this assurance, the power thus conferred upon the state court may be exercised by the federal district court, in a suit to foreclose the mortgage in which jurisdiction otherwise exists through diversity of citizenship. P. 267 U. S. 6 . 29...
Michigan Pub. Util. Comm'n Vs. Duke
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-12-1925
Michigan Pub. Util. Comm'n v. Duke - 266 U.S. 570 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court Michigan Pub. Util. Comm'n v. Duke, 266 U.S. 570 (1925) Michigan Public Utilities Commission v. Duke No. 283 Argued November 21, 1924 Decided January 12, 1925 266 U.S. 570 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN Syllabus 1. A state law imposing upon all persons engaged in transportation for hire by motor vehicle over the public highways of the state the burdens and duties of common carriers, and requiring them to furnish indemnity bonds to secure payment of claims and liabilities.resulting from injury to property carried, when applied to a private carrier without special franchise or power of eminent domain and engaged exclusively in hauling from a place within the state to a place in another state the goods of particular factories under standing contracts with their owners violates the Commerce Clause by taking from the carrier use of instruments by ...
Ebert Vs. Poston
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-12-1925
Ebert v. Poston - 266 U.S. 548 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court Ebert v. Poston, 266 U.S. 548 (1925) Ebert v. Poston No. 153 Argued December 12, 1924 Decided January 12, 1925 266 U.S. 548 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN Syllabus 1. Subsections 2 and 3 of 302 of the Soldier's and Sailors' Civil Relief Act of March 8, 1918, as amended September 3, 1919, which provide for stays of proceedings to foreclose mortgages whether, in court or in pais under powers of sale, are to be construed with 101(2), defining "period of military service," and Page 266 U. S. 549 do not include proceedings taken prior to the passage of the act or prior to the commencement of the military service of the owner of the mortgaged property. P. 266 U. S. 552 . 2. Section 205 of this act, which provide "that the period of military service shall not be included in computing any period now or hereafter to be limited by any law for the bringing of any action by or against any perso...
Tod Vs. Waldman
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-12-1925
Tod v. Waldman - 266 U.S. 547 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court Tod v. Waldman, 266 U.S. 547 (1925) Tod v. Waldman No. 95 Petition for rehearing Decided January 12, 1925 266 U.S. 547 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Syllabus Memorandum on petition for rehearing, adding to directions heretofore given in this case. See ante, p. 266 U. S. 113 . Page 266 U. S. 548 MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT delivered the opinion of the Court. By opinion handed down November 17, 1924, ante 266 U. S. 113 , this Court sustained the contention of the Commissioner of Immigration that the respondents should not have been discharged under the writ of habeas corpus as directed by the circuit court of appeals, but agreed with that court, in its criticism of the action of the immigration authorities in dealing with the respondents here, and made modifications and additions to the order of that court. Counsel for the respondents, in a petition for rehearing, now ask addition...
Ozark Pipe Line Corp. Vs. Monier
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-12-1925
Ozark Pipe Line Corp. v. Monier - 266 U.S. 555 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court Ozark Pipe Line Corp. v. Monier, 266 U.S. 555 (1925) Ozark Pipe Line Corporation v. Monier No. 181 Argued November 26, 1924 Decided January 12, 1925 266 U.S. 555 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI Syllabus 1. A Missouri statute requires every corporation not organized under the laws of that state but engaged in business therein to pay an annual franchise tax equal to one-tenth of 1% of the par value of its capital stock and surplus employed in business in the state. Rev.Stats.1919, 9836-9848. Held that the tax is one upon the privilege or right to do business. P. 266 U. S. 562 . 2. Such a tax cannot constitutionally be exacted of a foreign corporation whose business in the taxing state consists exclusively in the operation of a pipeline for transporting petroleum through the state in interstate commerce, and in ownership of property, maintenan...
Davis Vs. Manry
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Jan-05-1925
Davis v. Manry - 266 U.S. 401 (1925) U.S. Supreme Court Davis v. Manry, 266 U.S. 401 (1924) Davis v. Manry No. 147 Submitted December 9, 1924 Decided January 5, 1925 266 U.S. 401 CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA Syllabus The command of the Safety Appliance Act, (April 14, 1910, 2, 36 Stat. 298) that "[a]ll cars . . . having ladders hall also be equipped with secure hand hold or grab irons on their roofs at the tops of such ladders" is inapplicable to the tender of a locomotive. P. 266 U. S. 404 . 30 Ga.App. 213, reversed. Certiorari to a judgment of the Court of Appeals of Georgia affirming a judgment recovered by Manry in an action for personal injuries. Page 266 U. S. 402 MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the Court. Action by Manry for $50,000 against the Director General of Railroads for injuries sustained while engaged in assisting the train crew of the Central of Georgia Railroad. There was a verdict and judgment for $7,500. ...
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