American Electrical Cases (cited Am Electl. Cas.): Being a Collection of All the Important Cases (excepting Patent Cases) Decided in the State and Federal Courts of the United States from 1873 [to 1908] on Subjects Relating to the Telegraph, the Telephone, Electric Light and Power, Electric Railway, and All Other Practical Uses of Electricity, with Annotations, Band 5William Weeks Morrill M. Bender, 1896 |
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... defendant municipality may have secured to it . The questions suggested by the defendant's attitude , if they possess merit , and as to that I do not now mean to express any opinion , appear to be of the utmost import ance to the ...
... defendant municipality may have secured to it . The questions suggested by the defendant's attitude , if they possess merit , and as to that I do not now mean to express any opinion , appear to be of the utmost import ance to the ...
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... defendant's poles . Nor does the evidence , by its weight and credibility , sup- port the contention of counsel for the city that there has been but little change in the use of the defendant's poles by the city prior and subsequent to ...
... defendant's poles . Nor does the evidence , by its weight and credibility , sup- port the contention of counsel for the city that there has been but little change in the use of the defendant's poles by the city prior and subsequent to ...
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... defendant's telegraph wires . The evidence shows that the average space occupied by each pole is approximately 15 ... defendant company is so enormously greater than that of the abutting property as to render this exaction absolutely ...
... defendant's telegraph wires . The evidence shows that the average space occupied by each pole is approximately 15 ... defendant company is so enormously greater than that of the abutting property as to render this exaction absolutely ...
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... defendant's property in St. Louis , in 1884 , at $ 17,064.53 ; in 1885 , at $ 19,623.60 ; in 1886 , at $ 20 , - 678.10 ; and in 1887 , at $ 20,678.10 . After collecting from the defendant the customary taxes , the city seeks to collect ...
... defendant's property in St. Louis , in 1884 , at $ 17,064.53 ; in 1885 , at $ 19,623.60 ; in 1886 , at $ 20 , - 678.10 ; and in 1887 , at $ 20,678.10 . After collecting from the defendant the customary taxes , the city seeks to collect ...
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... defendant's wires run do not present any such figures by from one hundred to many hundred per cent . Willing , as ... defendant , it ought not to permit it to take the pound of flesh , and a half pound more . For this reason , this issue ...
... defendant's wires run do not present any such figures by from one hundred to many hundred per cent . Willing , as ... defendant , it ought not to permit it to take the pound of flesh , and a half pound more . For this reason , this issue ...
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Seite 593 - All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation; the General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens.
Seite 612 - ... involved has been exercised in such an unreasonable manner as to cause it to be within the elementary rule that the substance, and not the shadow, determines the validity of the exercise of the power.
Seite 815 - ... the damages resulting from the breach of such a contract, which they would reasonably contemplate, would be the amount of injury which would ordinarily follow from a breach of contract under these special circumstances so known and communicated.
Seite 215 - Pacific Railroad, or any part thereof, shall be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and all other Government service, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charges for such Government transportation.
Seite 786 - It is agreed between the sender of the following message and this company that said company shall not be liable for mistakes or delays in the transmission or delivery or non-delivery of any unrepeated message, whether happening by negligence of its servants or otherwise, beyond the amount received for sending the same...
Seite 11 - No law shall be passed by the Legislature granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town, or village, or upon any public highway, without first acquiring the consent of the local authorities having control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied by such street railroad.
Seite 804 - Where two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties, at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.
Seite 287 - The question always is, Was there an unbroken connection between the wrongful act and the injury, — a continuous operation? Did the facts constitute a continuous succession of events so linked together as to make a natural whole, or was there some new and independent cause intervening between the wrong and the injury?
Seite 710 - The company will not be liable for damages or statutory penalties in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message is filed with the company for transmission.
Seite 323 - ... whenever one person is by circumstances placed in such a position with regard to another that every one of ordinary sense who did think would at once recognize that, if he did not use ordinary care and skill in his own conduct with regard to those circumstances, he would cause danger of injury to the person or property of the other, a duty arises to use ordinary care and skill to avoid such danger.