The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All the Railroad Cases in the Courts of Last Resort in America and EnglandLawrence Lewis, Adelbert Hamilton, John Houston Merrill, William Mark McKinney, James Manford Kerr, John Crawford Thomson Edward Thompson Company, 1882 Covers cases decided [1879?]-1895. |
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... necessary the exercise of large and modified forms of control over its property by the courts charged with the settlement of its affairs and the disposition of its assets . Two very different courses of proceeding are presented for ...
... necessary the exercise of large and modified forms of control over its property by the courts charged with the settlement of its affairs and the disposition of its assets . Two very different courses of proceeding are presented for ...
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... necessary to any observing mind to say that I allude to railroad corporations . Of the many thousand miles . of railway in my judicial circuit , and of the fifty or more corporations . who own or have owned them , I think I speak within ...
... necessary to any observing mind to say that I allude to railroad corporations . Of the many thousand miles . of railway in my judicial circuit , and of the fifty or more corporations . who own or have owned them , I think I speak within ...
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... necessary expenses in operating the road , and for supplies purchased since his appoint- ment ; and they especially objected to the payment of certain certificates under the order of the court , made May 6 , 1878. After this , the sale ...
... necessary expenses in operating the road , and for supplies purchased since his appoint- ment ; and they especially objected to the payment of certain certificates under the order of the court , made May 6 , 1878. After this , the sale ...
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... necessary that those who repudiate it should do so promptly . Silence after knowledge is consent . Gold Mining Co. v . National Bank , 96 U. S. 640. Jones on Railroad Securities , secs . 363 , 438 . A court of equity having the power to ...
... necessary that those who repudiate it should do so promptly . Silence after knowledge is consent . Gold Mining Co. v . National Bank , 96 U. S. 640. Jones on Railroad Securities , secs . 363 , 438 . A court of equity having the power to ...
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... necessary to preserve the fund from waste or misap- propriation ; nor should the power ever be exercised to enforce mere legal claims . To call the power of the court into action there should be property , or a fund , in which several ...
... necessary to preserve the fund from waste or misap- propriation ; nor should the power ever be exercised to enforce mere legal claims . To call the power of the court into action there should be property , or a fund , in which several ...
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Страница 375 - ... but the person pledging such stock shall be considered as holding the same, and shall be liable as a stockholder accordingly, and the estates and funds in the hands of such executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, shall be liable in like manner, and to the same extent as the testator or intestate. or the ward or person interested in such trust fund would have been, if he had been living and competent to act, and held the same stock in his own name.
Страница 343 - Every act shall embrace but one subject, and matters properly connected therewith; which subject shall be expressed in the title. But if any subject shall be embraced in an act, which shall not be expressed in the title, such act shall be void only as to so much thereof as shall not be expressed in the title.
Страница 357 - Dues from corporations shall be secured by such individual liability of the corporators and other means as may be prescribed by law.
Страница 280 - ... where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to* believe in the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time.
Страница 375 - ... of such company ; but the person pledging such stock shall be considered as holding the same, and shall be liable as a stockholder accordingly, and the...
Страница 296 - From time to time to borrow such sums of money as may be necessary for completing and finishing or operating their railroad, and to issue and dispose of their bonds for any amount so borrowed, and to mortgage their corporate property and franchises to secure the payment of any debt contracted by the company for the purposes aforesaid...
Страница 377 - Statutes 1879, which declares that " no person holding stock in any such company, as executor, administrator, guardian or trustee, and no person holding such stock as collateral security, shall be personally subject to any liability as stockholder of such company...
Страница 280 - But the rule of law is clear, that, where one by his words or conduct wilfully causes another to believe the existence of a certain state of things, and induces him to act on that belief, so as to alter his own previous position, the former is concluded from averring against the latter a different state of things as existing at the same time."* In Freeman v.
Страница 384 - ... whole of the capital stock is not before subscribed, open books of subscription to fill up the capital stock of the company, in such places and after giving such notice as they may deem expedient, and may continue to receive subscriptions until the whole capital stock is subscribed.
Страница 593 - In determining what is proximate cause the true rule is that the injury must be the natural and probable consequence of the negligence : such a consequence as, under the surrounding circumstances of the case, might and ought to have been foreseen by the wrongdoer as likely to flow from his act.