... considerations to control the business operations of the government, or the regular administration of justice, or the appointments to public offices, or the ordinary course of legislation, are void as against public policy, without reference to the... The Central Law Journal - Page 2391801Full view - About this book
| United States. Supreme Court - 1870 - 820 pages
...against public policy, without reference to the question, whether improper means are contemplated or used in their execution. The law looks to the general...them recognition in any of the courts of the country. It follows that the judgment of the court below mut,c be reversed, and the cause remanded for a new... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - 1868 - 480 pages
...Norris, 2 Wall., 45, Mr. Justice FIELD, in speaking of contracts void, as against public policy, said: " The law looks to the general tendency of such agreements,...recognition in any of the Courts of the country." The gist of the agreement of the parties as stated in the plea—and this statement as pleaded is admitted... | |
| 1881 - 572 pages
...against public policy, without reference to the question whether improper means are contemplated or used In their execution. The law looks to the general...recognition in any of the courts of the country." In this case the doctrine of the court in Marithall \ . Baltimore <fc Ohio R. Co., reported in 16th... | |
| 1881 - 572 pages
...against public policy, without reference to the question whether improper means are contemplated or used in their execution. The law looks to the general...recognition in any of the courts of the country." In this case the doctrine of the court in Marshall v. Baltimore & Ohio li. Co., reported in 16th Howard,... | |
| 1890 - 548 pages
...against public policy, withont reference to the question whether improper means arc contemplated or used in their execution. The law looks to the general...temptation by refusing them recognition in any of the conrts of the conntry." 2 Wall. 56. These principles are reasserted by the same learned justice in... | |
| Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - 1876 - 678 pages
...against public policy, without reference to the question, whether improper means are contemplated or used in their execution. The law looks to the general...recognition in any of the courts of the country." 3. Railway companies are quasi public corporations, and the directors act as agents of the company,... | |
| 1903 - 1116 pages
...granted. This result follows "without reference to the question whether improper means are contemplated or used in their execution. The law looks to the general...courts of the country." Tool Co. v. Norris, 2 Wall. 45, 56, 17 L. Ed. 868; Trist v. Child, 21 Wall. 441, 452, 22 L. Ed. 623; Meguire v. Corwine, 101 US 108,... | |
| United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - 1880 - 628 pages
...against public policy, without reference to the question whether improper means are contemplated or used in their execution. The law looks to the general...recognition in any of the Courts of the country." But it is said that this is the law to be observed by public officers in this country, and to be administered... | |
| 1919 - 2026 pages
...48 NY 348. And Mr. Justice Field said in Providence Tool Co. v. Norris, 2 Wall. 45, 17 L. Ed. 868: "The law looks to the general tendency of such agreements,...recognition in any of the courts of the country." It is enough that the contract belongs to a class 'hich has a tendency contrary to the public good,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1881 - 948 pages
...against public policy, without reference to the question whether improper means are contemplated or used in their execution. The law looks to the general...recognition in any of the courts of the country." In this case the doctrine of the court in Marshall v. Baltimore £ Ohio Railroad Co., reported in 16th... | |
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