Minnesota Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota, Volume 101

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Review Publishing Company, 1907
Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Minnesota.
 

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Page 189 - She was employed as an instrument of that commerce; for whenever a commodity has begun to move as an article of trade from one state to another, commerce in that commodity between the states has commenced.
Page 224 - States outside established harbor lines or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War ; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal...
Page 246 - The construction given to a statute by those charged with the duty of executing it is always entitled to the most respectful consideration, and ought not to be overruled without cogent reasons. . . . The officers concerned are usually able men, and masters of the subject. Not unfrequently they are the draftsmen of the laws they are afterwards called upon to interpret.
Page 224 - War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor or refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.
Page 312 - A prosecution for libel can not be maintained against a reporter, editor, publisher, or proprietor of a newspaper, for the publication therein, of a fair and true...
Page 282 - Any violation of any provision of this section by the owner, master, or officer in charge of the vessel shall subject the owner of such vessel to a penalty of not less than $100 and not more than $500...
Page 13 - Plaintiff had a verdict in the court below, and defendant appealed from an order denying its alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or for a new trial.
Page 354 - The provisions of this act, so far as they are the same as those of existing statutes, shall be construed as continuations thereof, and not as new enactments...
Page 472 - Where a bank discounts paper for a depositor who is not In Its debt, and gives him credit upon its books for the proceeds of such paper, it Is not a bona fide holder for value, so as to be protected against infirmities In the paper, unless, In addition to the mere fact of crediting the depositor with the proceeds of the paper, some other and valuable consideration passes. Such a transaction simply creates the relation of debtor and creditor between the bank and the depositor, and so long as that...
Page 217 - ... and that the same shall be so located as in no way to interfere with the safety or convenience of persons traveling...

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