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The opinion of the Court was drawn up by Shepley J. — The property of the plaintiff in the mill logs must depend upon his title to the lots of land, on which they were cut. Those lots were conveyed to him by William Ham-matt, on November 3, 1824. The defendant shows that they were sold and a conveyance of them made to Charles Davis by a collector of taxes of the town of Howland, on February 6, 1836, to collect

This is an action brought under the Federal Employers' Liability Act, on account of the death of Ralph Appleby, a switchman. Suit was instituted by the widow, Beulah Appleby, as administratrix of the estate, for the benefit of herself and her three infant children, against William G. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads. On his resignation, Walker D. Hines, his successor in office, was substituted as defendant. After the appeal was taken in this cause, John Barton Payne, successor in office

Sheldon, J. The plaintiff alleges in his bill that for his advances made to the defendant Root for his benefit and for that of the other four heirs to the Davis estate for whom Root was acting (hereinafter called the Root group), he had, under the assignments made by the Root group, a lien upon fractional interests of what would be their respective shares in said estate if the will of the elder Davis should not be allowed; that

147 P.3d 20 (2006) Reinaldo GALLEGOS, Marianne Gallegos, Harold L. Gallegos, Ellen Gallegos, and Gene J. Gallegos, Plaintiffs/Appellants/Cross-Appellees: v. COLORADO GROUND WATER COMMISSION, an administrative agency of the State of Colorado; and Harold D. Simpson, in his capacity as the Colorado State Engineer, as ex officio Executive Director of the Colorado Ground Water Commission, and as a non-voting member of the Colorado Ground Water Commiss

Justice MULLARKEY delivered the Opinion of the Court. The City of Thornton (Thornton) appeals from a judgment of the water court for Water Division 1 (water court) awarding the City of Fort Collins (Fort Collins) a conditional surface water right with a certain appropriation date. Fort Collins cross-appeals from the judgment of the water court denying Fort Collins another conditional surface water right. As t

662 F.Supp.2d 1277 (2009) Shane DAWSON, Plaintiff, v. ENTEK INTERNATIONAL, a Delaware LLC, Defendant. Civil No. 08-6151-AA. United States District Court, D. Oregon. August 26, 2009. *1282 James S. Davis, Lafky & Lafky, Salem, OR, for plaintiff. Dennis E. Westlind, Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, OR, for defendant. </

630 F.3d 928 (2011) Shane DAWSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ENTEK INTERNATIONAL, Defendant-Appellee. No. 09-35844. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted November 1, 2010. Filed January 10, 2011. *932 Kevin T. Lafky and Haley Percell, Lafky and Lafky, Salem, OR, for the plaintiff-appell

RICE, Justice. Appellants the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB or “the Board”) and the State and Division No. 4 Engineers appeal the water court’s order and decree granting a recreational in-channel diversion (RICD) conditional water right to Applicant Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District. We reverse. ■ Upon review, we hold that both the CWCB and the water court erred. In Senate Bill 01-

166 B.R. 706 (1994) In re The CHISHOLM COMPANY, a Colorado corporation, Debtor. Howard B. GELT and Gregory L. Bamford, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Mildred JANOWITZ, individually and as personal representative for Jack Janowitz, Appellee/Cross-Appellant. Civ. A. No. 93-K-860. Bankruptcy No. 89 B 09124 D. United States District Court, D. Colorado. April 13, 1994.

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] *Page 799 OPINION This is an action for declaratory relief in the form of an election contest. The action was commenced in the Contra Costa County Superior Court by Charles Philippart (hereinafter contestant) who was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the office of Trustee of Hotchkiss Tract Re

DAVIS, Judge. Plaintiffs had a contract, as joint venturers, with the Atomic Energy Commission to construct a certain facility at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory near West Milton, New York. In July 1958, after some preliminary warning, the Commission’s representative, acting under the Termination-for-Default Article, terminated so

Layton, Chief Justice: The petitioner is the City Manager of the City of Rehoboth, and as such he is charged with the collection of municipal taxes. The respondent, William J. Ellis, Jr., is the owner of two lots of land, designated as lots 36 and 37, Block 17, Rehoboth Heights Development Company, against which taxes in the sum of $6.98 were levied for the year 1938. In addition the respondent was assessed with a capitation

327 Mass. 409 (1951) 99 N.E.2d 155 MARGARET J. DONAHUE vs. MARCEL A. KENNEY & others. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.. January 3, 1951. January 5, 1951. May 14, 1951. Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, WILKINS, SPALDING, & WILLIAMS, JJ. *410 M.J. Dalton, fo

Sanderson, J. This bill in equity was filed July 30, 1925, by ten persons, in behalf of themselves and others too numerous to be made parties, claiming to be beneficiaries under a declaration of trust, and seeks to enjoin the defendants from taking any proceedings to eject the association represented by the plaintiffs from the club house occupied by them. The defendants are the trustees under the declaration of trust and the Harv

Haley, J. A bill in equity brought by the plaintiff to remove a cloud upon his title to real estate, in Day Academy Grant, so called, in Piscataquis County, and it is before this court upon report. The report consists of the bill, answer, replication, a warranty deed to the plaintiff and Walter Merritt, as trustees for the Hojoalmean Club, dated May 22, 1900, duly recorded in the Registry of Deeds; a deed from

Crosby, J. The first case, a suit in equity, is brought by the plaintiff as one of the three trustees under the will of Elizabeth F. Brigham, and also as a member of the defendant corporation Robert B. Brigham Hospital for Incurables, against his cotrustees under said will, the three trustees under the will of Robert B. Brigham, the Robert B. Brigham Hospital for Incurables, Joel E. Goldthwait and the Attorney General. The bill w

Rugg, C. J. This is a suit in equity, in which the plaintiffs aver that they are “the ‘Christian Science Board of Directors’ in charge of all the spiritual and temporal affairs and of the property of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass., also known as the ‘Mother Church,’ an unincorporated religious society in said Boston maintaining regular religious services in its church edifice, and that their duties are si

BY THE COURT (SAWYER, Circuit Judge). There are two grounds upon which the application for an injunction is rested. First, on the ground that the Central Pacific Railroad is an instrumentality constructed in pursuance of acts of congress, and employed by the national government in the exercise of its constitutional powers in providing for the transportation of the mails, the armies of the United States, muni-’ t

Cooley, C. J. When the case of the Iron Cliffs Company was decided, I assumed — unwarrantably, it seems — that the judgment, though rendered by a divided court, would be •accepted by the circuit judges as law and followed by tins ■Court as a precedent, until it should be overruled by a •majority of this Court. I have always supposed that was the proper course, and it seemed to me a course so necessary to a dignified and orderly a