Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of the United States, المجلد 10Gilbert Book Company, 1884 |
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الصفحة 33
... Railroad Company ( a pre - existing corporation ) to purchase the railroad and franchises of the Northeast & Southwestern Alabama Railroad Company ( another pre- existing corporation ) ; and , after doing so , to change its own name to ...
... Railroad Company ( a pre - existing corporation ) to purchase the railroad and franchises of the Northeast & Southwestern Alabama Railroad Company ( another pre- existing corporation ) ; and , after doing so , to change its own name to ...
الصفحة 272
... company than the said Southern Trans - Continental Railroad Company , without the ap- proval and confirmation of this court , and subject to the same obligations to pay all valid debts of the defendant corporation which were to be ...
... company than the said Southern Trans - Continental Railroad Company , without the ap- proval and confirmation of this court , and subject to the same obligations to pay all valid debts of the defendant corporation which were to be ...
الصفحة 280
... railroad company and the coal company , by which the latter agreed to mine the coal and to furnish it to the railway company at $ 6 per ton for the first two years , at $ 5 per ton for the next three years , and for four years ...
... railroad company and the coal company , by which the latter agreed to mine the coal and to furnish it to the railway company at $ 6 per ton for the first two years , at $ 5 per ton for the next three years , and for four years ...
الصفحة 295
... railroad , and to open and operate mines at such points where coal may be discovered , as may be desired by said railroad company ; and to expend , within the first five years from the date of this agreement , in the purchase and ...
... railroad , and to open and operate mines at such points where coal may be discovered , as may be desired by said railroad company ; and to expend , within the first five years from the date of this agreement , in the purchase and ...
الصفحة 296
... railroad company up to the 13th of March , 1874 , when the officers and agents of that company , by order of its directors , took forcible possession of the mines and of the books , papers , tools , and other personal property of the ...
... railroad company up to the 13th of March , 1874 , when the officers and agents of that company , by order of its directors , took forcible possession of the mines and of the books , papers , tools , and other personal property of the ...
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الصفحة 628 - Every railroad company shall have the right with its road to intersect, connect with, or cross, any other railroad; and shall receive and transport each the other's passengers, tonnage, and cars, loaded or empty, without delay or discrimination.
الصفحة 370 - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
الصفحة 23 - The assent of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature, shall be requisite to every bill appropriating the public moneys or property, for local or private purposes, or creating, continuing, altering, or renewing any body politic or corporate.
الصفحة 489 - The corporation being the mere creation of local law, can have no legal existence beyond the limits of the sovereignty where created. As said by this court in Bank of Augusta v. Earle, "It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
الصفحة 477 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
الصفحة 489 - It is very true that a corporation can have no legal existence out of the boundaries of the sovereignty by which it is created. It exists only in contemplation of law, and by force of the law ; and where that law ceases to operate, and is no longer obligatory, the corporation can have no existence. It must dwell in the place of its creation, and cannot migrate to another sovereignty.
الصفحة 667 - ... upon condition that said company shall pay said bonds at maturity, and shall keep said railroad and telegraph line in repair and use, and shall at all times transmit dispatches over said telegraph line, and transport mails, troops and munitions of war, supplies and public stores upon said railroad for the government, whenever required to do so by any department thereof, and that the government shall at all times have the preference in the use of the same for all the purposes aforesaid (at fair...
الصفحة 661 - State shall be subject to the disposal of the legislature thereof, for the purposes aforesaid and no other; and the said railroad and branches shall be and remain a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
الصفحة 62 - Though it be a doctrine of modern date, we think it now well established that the capital stock of a corporation, especially its unpaid subscriptions, is a trust fund for the benefit of the general creditors of the corporation.
الصفحة 39 - A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the mere creature of law. it possesses only those properties which the charter of its creation confers upon it, either expressly, or as incidental to its very existence.