Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme, Circuit and District Courts of the United States, Band 10Gilbert Book Company, 1884 |
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... issued and indorsed was five thousand two hundred , amounting to $ 5,200,000 ; and that they were all issued and disposed of to various persons , who claimed , by virtue thereof , a first lien on the road and property mortgaged . It ...
... issued and indorsed was five thousand two hundred , amounting to $ 5,200,000 ; and that they were all issued and disposed of to various persons , who claimed , by virtue thereof , a first lien on the road and property mortgaged . It ...
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... issued by them , which should be a first lien on the property . Up to this point of time , Wallace , the present appellant , was not a party ; but , as a holder of second mortgage bonds , was , with the other holders of such bonds ...
... issued by them , which should be a first lien on the property . Up to this point of time , Wallace , the present appellant , was not a party ; but , as a holder of second mortgage bonds , was , with the other holders of such bonds ...
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... issued under the second mortgage ; that it stated and alleged that much the larger portion of the second mortgage bonds which had been issued were in the hands of the corporators of the railroad company , without consideration or value ...
... issued under the second mortgage ; that it stated and alleged that much the larger portion of the second mortgage bonds which had been issued were in the hands of the corporators of the railroad company , without consideration or value ...
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... issued under it were a first lien on the property , except as therein afterwards stated ; that the moneys raised by loan , or advanced by the receivers and ex- pended on the road pursuant to their order of appointment , were a lien para ...
... issued under it were a first lien on the property , except as therein afterwards stated ; that the moneys raised by loan , or advanced by the receivers and ex- pended on the road pursuant to their order of appointment , were a lien para ...
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... issued in excess of amount authorized , § 113.- Issue at less than par value , §z 114 , 116-118 , 120 , 123 , 124 , 126.— Sale on execution ; liability of purchaser , § 115. — Subscription necessary to creation of stock , 119 , 121 ...
... issued in excess of amount authorized , § 113.- Issue at less than par value , §z 114 , 116-118 , 120 , 123 , 124 , 126.— Sale on execution ; liability of purchaser , § 115. — Subscription necessary to creation of stock , 119 , 121 ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.