The Federal Reporter, Volume 243West Publishing Company, 1917 - Law reports, digests, etc Includes cases argued and determined in the District Courts of the United States and, Mar./May 1880-Oct./Nov. 1912, the Circuit Courts of the United States; Sept./Dec. 1891-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Circuit Courts of Appeals of the United States; Aug./Oct. 1911-Jan./Feb. 1914, the Commerce Court of the United States; Sept./Oct. 1919-Sept./Nov. 1924, the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. |
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... duty to return a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the amount of damages which it has suffered by reason of the injurious acts . " If , however , you find that there were such unlawful acts , and there was such an unlawful ...
... duty to return a verdict in favor of the plaintiff for the amount of damages which it has suffered by reason of the injurious acts . " If , however , you find that there were such unlawful acts , and there was such an unlawful ...
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... duty to return a verdict for the defendant without going into any question as to whether or not the plaintiff was injured . If , on the other hand , you find from the evidence that the defendant compelled the plain- tiff to enter into ...
... duty to return a verdict for the defendant without going into any question as to whether or not the plaintiff was injured . If , on the other hand , you find from the evidence that the defendant compelled the plain- tiff to enter into ...
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... duty of the court to direct a verdict . [ Ed . Note . For other cases , see Trial , Cent . Dig . §§ 341 , 376-380 . ] 3. TRIAL 168 - DIRECTION OF VERDICT - WHEN Warranted . It is the duty of the trial court to direct a verdict for ...
... duty of the court to direct a verdict . [ Ed . Note . For other cases , see Trial , Cent . Dig . §§ 341 , 376-380 . ] 3. TRIAL 168 - DIRECTION OF VERDICT - WHEN Warranted . It is the duty of the trial court to direct a verdict for ...
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... duty of the court as a matter of law to direct a verdict . In other words , it is the duty of the trial court to direct a verdict for the plaintiff or defendant , as to the court may seem proper , where the evidence is uncontradicted ...
... duty of the court as a matter of law to direct a verdict . In other words , it is the duty of the trial court to direct a verdict for the plaintiff or defendant , as to the court may seem proper , where the evidence is uncontradicted ...
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... duty of avoiding a collision , but is accompanied with and conditioned upon the duty of the train to give due and timely warning of its approach . " The court , after announcing the rule as epitomized in the syllabus from which we have ...
... duty of avoiding a collision , but is accompanied with and conditioned upon the duty of the train to give due and timely warning of its approach . " The court , after announcing the rule as epitomized in the syllabus from which we have ...
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Page 434 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 432 - An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military establishment of the United States", approved May 18, 1917, or any.
Page 11 - The general principle announced in numerous cases is that a right, question or fact distinctly put in issue and directly determined by a court of competent jurisdiction, as a ground of recovery, cannot be disputed in a subsequent suit between, the same parties or their privies...
Page 144 - ... intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, Territory, or District of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is hereby prohibited.
Page 330 - ... as to all property in the custody or coming into the custody of the bankruptcy court, shall be deemed vested with all the rights, remedies, and powers of a creditor holding a lien by legal or equitable proceedings thereon...
Page 94 - It is mutually agreed, as to each carrier of all or any of said property over all or any portion of said route to destination, and as to each party at any time interested in all or any of said property, that every service to be performed hereunder shall be subject to all the conditions not prohibited by law, whether printed or written, herein contained, including the conditions on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to by the shipper and accepted for himself and his assigns.
Page 715 - Was the employee at the time of the injury, engaged in interstate transportation or in work so closely related to it as to be practically a part of it.
Page 386 - Fourth. That he was not the original and first inventor or discoverer of any material and substantial part of the thing patented; or, Fifth.
Page 543 - Chinese subjects, whether proceeding to the United States as teachers, students, merchants or from curiosity, together with their body and household servants, and Chinese laborers who are now in the United States shall be allowed to go and come of their own free will and accord, and shall be accorded all the rights, privileges, immunities, and exemptions which are accorded to the citizens and subjects of the most favored nation.
Page 732 - Thus not specifying but indubitably contemplating and requiring a standard, it follows that it was intended that the standard of reason which had been applied at the common law and in this country in dealing with subjects of the character embraced by the statute, was intended to be the measure used for the purpose of determining whether in a given case a particular act had or had not brought about the wrong against which the statute provided.