Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, Volume 37M. Curlander, 1912 |
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... Justice : HON . SETH SHEPARD . Associate Justices : HON . CHARLES H. ROBB . HON . JOSIAH A. VAN ORSDEL United States District Attorney : CLARENCE R. WILSON . Corporation Counsel : EDWARD H. THOMAS . Clerk : HENRY W. HODGES . Assistant ...
... Justice : HON . SETH SHEPARD . Associate Justices : HON . CHARLES H. ROBB . HON . JOSIAH A. VAN ORSDEL United States District Attorney : CLARENCE R. WILSON . Corporation Counsel : EDWARD H. THOMAS . Clerk : HENRY W. HODGES . Assistant ...
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... Justice ROBв delivered the opinion of the Court : Without stopping to inquire whether it was incumbent upon the complainant , before invoking the aid of equity , to offer , so far as practicable , to place the defendant in the position ...
... Justice ROBв delivered the opinion of the Court : Without stopping to inquire whether it was incumbent upon the complainant , before invoking the aid of equity , to offer , so far as practicable , to place the defendant in the position ...
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... Justice VAN ORSDEL delivered the opinion of the Court : The sole question necessary to the determination of this ap- peal is involved in the granting of the motion to strike out the evidence of fraud . This motion was granted in ...
... Justice VAN ORSDEL delivered the opinion of the Court : The sole question necessary to the determination of this ap- peal is involved in the granting of the motion to strike out the evidence of fraud . This motion was granted in ...
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... Justice SHEPARD delivered the opinion of the Court : This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill for the dissolution of a partnership , and an account . The bill of Herbert E. Smith alleges that he entered into partnership with ...
... Justice SHEPARD delivered the opinion of the Court : This is an appeal from a decree dismissing a bill for the dissolution of a partnership , and an account . The bill of Herbert E. Smith alleges that he entered into partnership with ...
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... justice . The decree must there- fore be affirmed . It is unneces- We have said that the record is voluminous . sarily so . Much of the evidence introduced by the defendant ( which the Examiner who took the depositions was bound to ...
... justice . The decree must there- fore be affirmed . It is unneces- We have said that the record is voluminous . sarily so . Much of the evidence introduced by the defendant ( which the Examiner who took the depositions was bound to ...
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Page 269 - ... (or partly by railroad and partly by water when both are used under a common control, management, or arrangement for a continuous carriage or shipment), from one state or territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, to any other State or territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, or from one place in a territory to another place in the same territory...
Page 270 - This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 393 - railroad" as used in this act shall include all bridges and ferries used or operated in connection with any railroad, and also all the road in use by any corporation operating a railroad, whether owned or operated under a contract, agreement, or lease; and the term "transportation" shall include all instrumentalities of shipment or carriage.
Page 348 - Formulary, it differs from the standard of strength, quality, or purity, as determined by the test laid down in the United States Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary official at the time of investigation: Provided, That no drug defined in the United States Pharmacopeia or National Formulary shall be deemed to be adulterated under this provision if the standard of strength, quality, or purity be plainly stated upon the bottle, box, or other container thereof although the standard may differ from that...
Page 190 - But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.
Page 352 - Second. If it be labeled or branded so as to deceive or mislead the purchaser, or purport to be a foreign product when not so, or if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part and other contents shall have been placed in such package, or if...
Page 368 - Every application signed or sworn to in blank, or without actual inspection by the applicant of the petition and specification, and every application, altered or partly filled up after being signed or sworn to, will be stricken from the files.
Page 276 - If any person fails or neglects to obey any order of the Commission other than for the payment of money...
Page 517 - ... that the person who owns the surface may dig therein, and apply all that is there found to his own purposes at his free will and pleasure; and that if, in the exercise of such right, he intercepts or drains off the water collected from underground springs in his neighbour's well, this inconvenience to his neighbour falls within the description of damnum absque injuria, which cannot become the ground of an action.
Page 271 - The civil rights and political status of the native inhabitants of the territories hereby ceded to the United States shall be determined by the Congress.