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Chandler Vs. Peketz
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
Chandler v. Peketz - 297 U.S. 609 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court Chandler v. Peketz, 297 U.S. 609 (1936) Chandler v. Peketz No. 583 Argued March 4, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 297 U.S. 609 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF COLORADO Syllabus 1. A judgment in Minnesota rendered upon application of the receiver of a Minnesota corporation and levying an assessment upon the stockholders pursuant to Minnesota Constitution, Art. 10, 3, and Mason's Minnesota Statutes, 8025-8028, binds nonresident stockholders not served with process in Minnesota, and must he given full faith and credit by the courts of the States of their residence in actions brought by the receiver to collect the assessments. Bernheimer v. Converse, 206 U. S. 516 , and other cases followed. P. 297 U. S. 610 . 2. Jurisdiction of a court in Minnesota in such a proceeding attaches when the petition of the receiver is filed in accordance with the Minnesota statute, and the resulting judgment of assessment cannot be...
Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. Vs. Insular Collector of Customs
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. v. Insular Collector of Customs - 297 U.S. 666 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. v. Insular Collector of Customs, 297 U.S. 666 (1936) Asiatic Petroleum Co., Ltd. v. Insular Collector of Customs No. 674 Argued March 13, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 297 U.S. 666 CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Syllabus 1. The Philippine Tariff Act of 1909, as enacted by Congress, is a statute of the United States within the meaning of the Act of February 13, 1925, and this Court has jurisdiction to review a decision of the Supreme Court of the Islands involving its application. P. 297 U. S. 668 . 2. The Act of 1916 for the government of the Philippine Islands did not operate to repeal the Tariff Act as a law of the United States and convert it into a law of the Philippine Islands, and did not thus abolish the jurisdiction of this Court to review a decision of the Islands' Supreme Court involving the application of the...
Bingaman Vs. Golden Eagle Western Lines, Inc.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
Bingaman v. Golden Eagle Western Lines, Inc. - 297 U.S. 626 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court Bingaman v. Golden Eagle Western Lines, Inc., 297 U.S. 626 (1936) Bingaman v. Golden Eagle Western Lines, Inc. No. 520 Argued March 5, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 297 U.S. 626 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW MEXICO Syllabus 1. Upon the question whether a state gasoline tax is exacted as compensation for use of the highways or is a general excise on the use of gasoline, the construction by the state supreme court controls in a federal court. P. 297 U. S. 628 . 2. Statutory provisions carried forward without material change into a new statute are continuations, and not new enactments. Posadas v. National City Bank, 296 U. S. 497 . P. 297 U. S. 628 . 3. As respects a carrier by motor vehicle engaged exclusively in interstate commerce, a State has no power to license and tax the importation and use of gasoline for operating the motors. P. 2...
Georgia Railway and Electric Co. Vs. Decatur
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. Decatur - 297 U.S. 620 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. Decatur, 297 U.S. 620 (1936) Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. Decatur No. 625 Argued March 9, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 297 U.S. 620 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA Syllabus 1. This Court reversed the judgment of a state court at a former hearing, upon the ground that a statute of the State, as apparently construed by that court, deprived the complaining party of property without due process of law, and by its mandate remanded the cause to the state court for further proceedings not inconsistent with this Court's opinion. Held, that the state court was not inhibited by the mandate from restating its construction of the statute so as to avoid the constitutional objection, and from enforcing the statute as thus explained. P. 297 U. S. 628 . 2. A State may assess paving costs without regard to benefits, against street railroads occupying the stre...
Mccaughn Vs. Real Estate Land Title and Trust Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
McCaughn v. Real Estate Land Title & Trust Co. - 297 U.S. 606 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court McCaughn v. Real Estate Land Title & Trust Co., 297 U.S. 606 (1936) McCaughn v. Real Estate Land Title & Trust Co. No. 62 Argued March 13, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 297 U.S. 606 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Syllabus A general verdict found by the District Court in an action at law, in which a jury trial has been waived, has the same effect as the verdict of a jury; an appellate court cannot pass upon the weight of the evidence. P. 297 U. S. 608 . 79 F.2d 602, reversed; 7 F.Supp. 742, affirmed. Certiorari to review the reversal of a judgment for the above-named executors in an action to recover a tax. PER CURIAM. On February 9, 1920, Malcolm MacFarlan, a physician of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, made a transfer of real estate and securities, of the value of upwards of $670,000, in trust for the benefit of his children and their wives and descenda...
Norfolk and Western Ry. Co. Vs. North Carolina Ex Rel. Maxwell
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
Norfolk & Western Ry. Co. v. North Carolina ex rel. Maxwell - 297 U.S. 682 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court Norfolk & Western Ry. Co. v. North Carolina ex rel. Maxwell, 297 U.S. 682 (1936) Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. North Carolina ex rel. Maxwell No. 610 Argued March 6, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 297 U.S. 682 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA Syllabus 1. For ascertaining the net income of an interstate railway taxable within a particular State, a formula allocating operating revenues and operating expenses to the lines within that State by applying the average mileage prorate of the entire railway system is generally speaking valid, though it may produce unconstitutional results in particular instances. P. 297 U. S. 684 . 2. A raiiway claiming that the use of such a formula operated arbitrarily to attribute net income to its lines within the State out of proportion to the income earned by them, and thus in effect to tax income derived from its business outsi...
international Steel and Iron Co. Vs. National Surety Co.
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
International Steel & Iron Co. v. National Surety Co. - 297 U.S. 657 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court International Steel & Iron Co. v. National Surety Co., 297 U.S. 657 (1936) International Steel & Iron Co. v. National Surety Co. No. 252 Argued January 9, 1936 and March 11, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 297 U.S. 657 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF TENNESSEE Syllabus 1. Jurisdiction over an appeal from a state court may be sustained with the aid of a continuance after the case has been reached for argument, by obtaining from the state court, duly certified, and adding to the record, a supplement to its opinion showing that the federal question here relied on by the appellant was raised in and decided by that court. P. 297 U. S. 662 . 2. A state law relative to the settlement of public construction contracts, which attempts retroactively to release the surety on a bond given by the contractor for the security of the claims of materialmen, and to substitute therefor, without their ...
Commonwealth Trust Co. Vs. Bradford
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
Commonwealth Trust Co. v. Bradford - 297 U.S. 613 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court Commonwealth Trust Co. v. Bradford, 297 U.S. 613 (1936) Commonwealth Trust Co. v. Bradford No. 273 Argued February 5, 6, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 297 U.S. 613 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. The District Court has jurisdiction over suits by receivers of national banks. 28 U.S.C. 41(1) and (16). P. 297 U. S. 617 . 2. A suit by a receiver of a national bank to determine his right of participation as cestui que trust in a trust originally set up and administered by the bank but turned over, with the receiver's consent, to a successor trustee appointed by a state court is a suit within the equity jurisdiction of the federal court. P. 297 U. S. 618 . 3. Its jurisdiction having been invoked in such a suit, it is the duty of the federal court to determine the issues involved. Id. 4. Such a suit is not in rem; the decree sought determines the righ...
New York Life Ins. Co. Vs. Viglas
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
New York Life Ins. Co. v. Viglas - 297 U.S. 672 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court New York Life Ins. Co. v. Viglas, 297 U.S. 672 (1936) New York Life Insurance Co. v. Viglas No. 602 Argued March 6, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 297 U.S. 672 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. A policyholder, entitled by his policy to monthly benefit payments and suspension of premiums if totally and permanently disabled, and who had been in the enjoyment of these rights upon the assumption that such disability existed, was notified by the insurance company that it would no longer make the payments or waive premiums because it appeared to the company that, for some time past, he had not been continuously totally disabled within the meaning of the policy, and, upon his failure to pay a premium on the next due day, the company noted on its records that the policy Page 297 U. S. 673 had lapsed. By its terms, even if the policy had lapsed, the insured would still...
Triplett Vs. Lowell
Court: US Supreme Court
Decided on: Mar-30-1936
Triplett v. Lowell - 297 U.S. 638 (1936) U.S. Supreme Court Triplett v. Lowell, 297 U.S. 638 (1936) Triplett v. Lowell No. 388 Argued March 4, 5, 1936 Decided March 30, 1936 * 297 U.S. 638 CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT Syllabus 1. Neither the disclaimer statute, R.S. 4917, 4922, nor the rules of the common law applicable to successive litigations concerning the same subject matter preclude relitigation of the validity of a patent claim previously held invalid in a suit against a different defendant. P. 297 U. S. 642 . 2. The court whose jurisdiction is invoked by a suit for infringement of a patent must determine for itself the validity of the claims asserted, notwithstanding a prior adjudication of invalidity of some of them, unless those issues have become res judicata by reason of the fact that both suits are between the same parties or their privies. Only if it holds that the claims are invalid may it be called upon to apply th...
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