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# Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Layton

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United States Supreme Court
243 U.S. 617
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Layton
Argued: April 11, 1917. --- Decided: April 30, 1917
Messrs. Sanders McDaniel, E. R. Black, P. H. Brewster, and H. C. Peeples for plaintiffs in error.
Mr. Marion Smith for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Clarke delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Melton

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United States Supreme Court
218 U.S. 36
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Melton
Argued: April 28, 29, 1910. --- Decided: May 31, 1910
Messrs. Benjamin D. Warfield, Henry Lane Stone, Clifton J. Waddill, and Waddill & Dempsey for plaintiff in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 37-41 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. James W. Clay, William L. Gordon, William J. Cox, Maurice K. Gordon, and J. F. Clay for defendant in error
[Argument of Counsel from pages 41-43 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice White delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Gaston

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United States Supreme Court
216 U.S. 418
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Gaston
Argued: February 21, 1910. ---
Messrs. Gregory L. Smith and H. L. Stone for plaintiff in error in No. 451.
Messrs. Robert E. Steiner, A. R. Lawton, T. M. Cunningham, Jr., Horace Stringfellow, and Leon Weil for plaintiff in error in No. 466.
Messrs. Alexander M. Garber, Samuel D. Weakley, and Henry D. Selheimer for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Day delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Gaston/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
216 U.S. 418
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Gaston
Argued: February 21, 1910. ---
No. 451 was argued and submitted with Southern R. Co. v. Greene, No. 450, just decided [[[216 U.S. 400]], 54 L. ed. --, 30 Sup. Ct. Rep. 287]. Nos. 451 and 466 were argued at the same time in the supreme court of Alabama with the case of Southern R. Co. v. Greene, No. 450, and were decided on the authority of that case. That court said (49 So. 412): 'These cases [Nos. 450, 451, and 466] were argued, submitted, and considered together, and the points raised by the pleadings in each case are, for convenience, treated of and embodied in the one opinion,' referring to the opinion in the Greene Case.
These cases are embraced within the opinion in the Greene Case in this court. For the reasons stated in that case, both of these cases are reversed, and remanded to the supreme court of Alabama for further proceedings consistent with that opinion.
Mr. Justice Lurton was not on the bench when Nos. 450 and 451 were argued and submitted. No. 466 was submitted after he took his seat on the bench, and I am permitted to say, for the reasons stated in the opinion in No. 450, Southern R. Co. v. Greene, he concurs in the judgment in No. 466.
Reversed.
Dissenting: The CHIEF JUSTICE, Mr. Justice McKenna, and Mr. Justice Holmes.

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# Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Chatters

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United States Supreme Court
279 U.S. 320
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. Chatters
Argued: March 7, 1929. --- Decided: April 15, 1929
Messrs. Harry McCall, of New Orleans, La., and Ashby M. Warren, of Louisville, Ky., for petitioner Louisville & N. R. Co.
[Argument of Counsel from page 321 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. J. Blanc Monroe, of New Orleans. La., and H. O'B. Cooper, of Washington, D. C., for petitioner Southern Ry. Co.
Mr. George Piazza, of New Orleans, La., for respondent.
Mr. Justice STONE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Louisville Gas Electric Company v. Coleman/Dissent Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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United States Supreme Court
277 U.S. 32
Louisville Gas Electric Company v. Coleman
Argued: Feb. 29, 1928. --- Decided: April 30, 1928
Mr. Justice HOLMES dissenting.
When a legal distinction is determined, as no one doubts that it may be, between night and day, childhood and maturity, or any other extremes, a point has to be fixed or a line has to be drawn, or gradually picked out by successive decisions, to mark where the change takes place. Looked at by itself without regard to the necessity behind it the line or point seems arbitrary. It might as well or nearly as well be a little more to one side or the other. But when it is seen that a line or point there must be, and that there is no mathematical or logical way of fixing it precisely, the decision of the Legislature must be accepted unless we can say that it is very wide of any reasonable mark.
There is a plain distinction between large loans secured by negotiable bonds and mortgages that easily escape taxation, and small ones to needy borrowers for which they give their personal note for a short term and a mortgage of their house. I hardly think it would be denied that the large transactions of the money market reasonably may be subjected to a tax from which small ones for private need are exempted. The Legislature of Kentucky after careful consideration has decided that the distinction is clearly marked when the loan is for so long a term as five years. Whatever doubt I may feel, I certainly cannot say that it is wrong. If it is right as to the run of cases a possible exception here and there would not make the law bad. All taxes have to be laid by general rules.
I think that the judgment should be affirmed.
Mr. Justice BRANDEIS, Mr. Justice SANFORD, and Mr. Justice STONE concur in this opinion.

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# Louisville Jeffersonville Bridge Company v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
249 U.S. 534
Louisville Jeffersonville Bridge Company v. United States
Argued: March 28, 1919. --- Decided: April 21, 1919
Mr. Edward P. Humphrey, of Louisville, Ky., for Louisville & Jeffersonville Bridge Co.
Mr. Solicitor General W. R. King, of Washington, D. C., for the United States.
Mr. Justice CLARKE delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Louisville Gas Electric Company v. Coleman

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## Dissenting Opinions

    Wendell Holmes, Jr.
    Brandeis
United States Supreme Court
277 U.S. 32
Louisville Gas Electric Company v. Coleman
Argued: Feb. 29, 1928. --- Decided: April 30, 1928
Mr. Matthew O'Doherty, of Louisville, Ky., for plaintiff in error.
Messrs. Clifford E. Smith, of Frankfort, Ky., and Swager Sherley, of Washington, D. Cl., for defendant in error.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 33-34 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Louisville Manufacturing Company v. Welch

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United States Supreme Court
51 U.S. 461
Louisville Manufacturing Company v. Welch

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# Letters of a Javanese princess/Chapter 32

XXXII
February 28, 1902.
THE influence of blood cannot be denied. I attach a certain value to the descent of every one around me, and I have an idea that I shall be blessed by the ancestors of those persons whom I love and honour. I am eager to read the books you have sent me and I hope to be able to understand them easily. Do you not think me a little stupid? I am only a great child, who longs very much to be loved, and who longs too for knowledge and understanding.
Understanding is a very difficult art. Is it not so. Dearest?
But when one understands, one judges mercifully, and one forgives.
It is Friday evening; Gamelan evening. Our souls are wafted up to the blue heaven of our fancy by the sweet serene tones that are borne to us on the evening wind from the pendopo.
Let us dream as long as it is possible; if there were no dreams, what would life be?
We have taken away all the little trifles and ornaments from our room. It is no longer the joyful girls' room, where we dreamed dreams, where we wept, thought, felt, rejoiced and struggled! Only our bookcase remains unchanged, and our old friends smile at us still in their friendly, confident and encouraging way.
One of our best friends, who is no longer ornamental because he has grown old-fashioned, shows very plainly whenever the door is opened. ​Our dear, true, old friend. Many people would turn up their noses at him, but we love him because he has never left us, but has rejoiced with us in happy days; and through dark troubled ones, he has comforted and supported us. He is De Genestet. He has been such a consolation to us of late.
# Letters of a Javanese princess/Chapter 39

XXXIX
June 10, 1902.
DUTCH has always been my favourite study, and many people say that I am thoroughly at home in it. But heavens! fondness for a language is a very long way from knowledge of it. Next to languages I like geology. I also enjoy mathematics, but I am still struggling with the groundwork of history. Not that I do not like history; I think it is interesting and very instructive; but the manner in which it is set down in schoolbooks has little charm for me. I should like to have a teacher who knew how to make the dry parts interesting. What I do think delightful,is ancient history; it is a pity that so little of it has come my way. I should love to study the history of the Egyptians, and of the old Greeks and Romans.
We do not wish to make of our pupils half Europeans or European Javanese. We want a free education, to make of the Javanese, above everything, a strong Javanese. One who will be blessed with love and enthusiasm for his own land and people, with a heart open to their good qualities and to their needs.
* ↑ To Mevrouw Abendanon.
* ↑ En somme Java est trop gouvemee. La remede est sous le main ; "Instruire las indigenes non pas avec I'idee d'em Faire des Europeans, mais dans le but de les preparer a devenir les collaberateurs intimes de ceux-ci." A. Fabert.
# Letters of a Javanese princess/Chapter 40

XL
June 17, 1902.
IREAD in the paper that some Chinese girls had asked permission to stand the teachers' examinations. Hurrah for progress! I feel like shouting aloud in my joy. Of what good is the preservation of a few old traditions?We see now that the strongest and oldest traditions can be broken; and that gives me courage and hope. I should like to meet the gallant little Chinese girls; I should be so glad to know something of their thoughts and feelings, their "soul."
I have always longed to have a Chinese girl for a friend. I have often wondered about the inner life of such a girl. It must certainly be full of poetry.
At Semarang, a Chinese millionaire has laid out a splendid garden. It lies on a hill and is so beautiful; there are rocks, grottos and tiny hills covered with green ferns. Masses of flowers and miniature fruit trees are interspersed with little parks and winding paths.
There is a lovely summer-house in the middle of the lake. The lake has many capes and twisted turns. And in it, goeromis and gold fish can be seen swimming around. On the shore, is a hill with a grotto, ​and a bath house. A winding stair runs through the grotto and comes out on top of the hill, where two miniature temples stand. Fruit trees and flowers of all kinds grow and bloom everywhere; it is fairy-land become reality, only the fairy kings and queens and the silver shining little elves do not come out of the chasms in the rocks to make the illusion complete. The whole idea is like a poem expressed in art. But where is the art that is not poetry? Everything that is good, that is high, that is holy, in a word everything that is beautiful in life is poetry!
We have seen the creator of this wonder place. A deadly dull, commonplace sjofele baba. Images in plaster, human dragons, and tigers are scattered among the grass; these too are the creations of his fancy.
It is a pity that at the entrance of the walk that leads to the fairy lake, two figures of European workmanship have been placed; they destroy the harmony.
You have been to Batavia to see the exhibition? Yes, to be sure, and what do you say now of the brown race? What of its art?
Oh I am so proud of my people, they are capable of so much, but you Hollanders must lead us. And you will do that will you not? We are like children, and you are our protectors, who must guide us and help us to be grown up men and women.
* ↑ To Mevrouw de Booij-Boissevain.
* ↑ In 1898, four years before this letter was written, there were 261.000 Chinese settlers in Java. Their constantly increasing number presents a problem to the Dutch Government. They are seldom day labourers but more frequently artisans, merchants or agriculturists and by their frugality and industry have attained a condition of general prosperity, in all competition easily outstripping the more indolent Javanese, and often accumulating large fortunes.
* ↑ Sjofele, ragged or dirty baba, a Chinese coolie. Sjofele baba indicates a good-natured contempt.
* ↑ Exposition of Javanese art held at Batavia in that year.
# Letters of a Javanese princess/Chapter 36

XXXVI
March 27, 1903.
IT is always said of the girls here that, "they are well provided for, and comfortably taken care of." Have they a right to complain? Well means, well-being, happiness, the opposite of misery ; and misery is what the women feel, and yet they have no right to complain — they are said to act always of their own free will. But how about their children? What is more wretched than a sad childhood, than children who too early have learned to read the shadow side of life?
I once copied something from a speech by Prof. Max Miiller, the great German scholar who was so learned in Eastern tongues. It was almost as follows: "Polygamy, as it is practiced by the Eastern people is of benefit to women and girls, who could not live in their environment without a man to take care of them and to protect them."
Max Miiller is dead; we cannot call him here to show him the benefits of that custom.
# Letters of a Javanese princess/Chapter 33

March 5th, 1902.
DO you know who has painted so many wajangs for us? It is one of our gamelan players. The art of painting is part of the air in Japara. Little urchins, buffalo boys, draw excellent wajangs, in the sand, on the walls, on bridges, on the supports of bridges. The wall behind our house is always covered with wajang figures. All the bridge supports erected today are covered with them tomorrow, drawn with charcoal or with a little piece of soap-stone by naked, dirty little apes. Favored land our Japara. You do not know how proud we are of our dear, quiet place.
The grave of the Sultan of Mantangan is half an hour's ride, or some-what more from here. There is a whole connected narrative about the sultan's grave, for it is a holy tomb. When the sultan came back from China, a Chinese followed him and lies buried in the same place; over his grave there is a patje tree. Miraculous powers are ascribed to this tree. Barren women, who would gladly have a child, go there and take the sultan flowers and incense wafers. When a patje fruit falls upon the grave of the Chinaman, the woman must take it away, make it into a stew, and eat it; her wish will then be granted. We have been told the names of persons who had obtained their wishes in this way.
You see that the Javanese are a superstitious people fond of myths and fairy tales. It is said that the children with which the Sultan of ​Mantangan blesses the childless, will all be girls. Poor childless ones! We shall have to look for a holy tomb that will bless the world with boys, for there are all too many women in the world!
It was uphill work to make our artists carve wajang dolls. They were frightened to death for fear the wajang spirits would be angry with them. Father assured them that he would take all responsibility, that all consequences would be upon his own head, and that the anger and wrath of the spirits would smite him alone, the task-master, and not the workmen who had merely carried out his will.
It was most difficult to take a photograph in the Kampang. A superstition says that one shortens one's own life when one allows a photograph to be taken, and that a photographer is a great sinner; all the portraits that he makes will demand their lives of him in the after life.
# Lyon v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association

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United States Supreme Court
305 U.S. 484
Lyon v. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association
Argued: Dec. 12, 1938. --- Decided: January 3, 1939
Mr. John W. Nance, of Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Messrs. Thomas B. Pryor and Thomas B. Pryor, Jr., both of Fort Smith, Ark., for respondent.
Mr. Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Lyon v. Auchincloss

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United States Supreme Court
37 U.S. 234
Lyon v. Auchincloss
IN error to the district court of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana.
This case was argued at the January term, 1837, by Mr. Butler, for the plaintiffs, and by Mr. Key, for the defendants; and was held under advisement until this Court; an examination of the rules of practice established by the district judge of the United States of the district of Louisiana, having been considered proper. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the Court.
Mr. Justice M'LEAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Lyon v. Bertram

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United States Supreme Court
61 U.S. 149
Lyon v. Bertram
THIS case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of California.
The facts are particularly stated in the opinion of the court.
It was argued by Mr. Brent and Mr. Poe for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Fessenden for the defendants.
The counsel for the plaintiff in error, after stating their objections to the pleadings in the case, and also those which were founded on the statute of limitations in California, contended that this was not an entire contract for the purchase of the whole cargo, but only for so much of it as was branded Haxall; that the description of the quality was material; that Lyon, if had chosen, could have declined to receive any part of the cargo; that the acceptance of a part, under the circumstances, did not affect his right to repudiate the residue.
Mr. Fessenden contended that the contract was entire; that it was an executed contract; that the term Haxall was descriptive merely, and not material; that if it was material, then it was an express warranty upon which the purchaser must rely, without rescinding the contract; and that the acceptance of a part was an acceptance of the whole.
Mr. Justice CAMPBELL delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Lucius v. Cawthon-Coleman Company/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
196 U.S. 149
Lucius v. Cawthon-Coleman Company
Argued: December 13, 1904. --- Decided: January 3, 1905
By the express terms of subdivision 11 of § 2 of the bankruptcy act of 1898 [30 Stat. at L. 546, chap. 541, U.S.C.omp. Stat. 1901, p. 3421], jurisdiction is conferred upon courts of bankruptcy to determine all claims of bankrupts to their exemptions. When, therefore, as in the case at bar, property of the bankrupt has come into the possession of the trustee in bankruptcy, and the bankrupt has asserted in the bankruptcy court a claim to be entitled to a part or the whole of such property, as exempt property, the bankruptcy court necessarily is vested with jurisdiction to determine, upon the facts before it, the validity of the claimed exemption. An erroneous decision against an asserted right of exemption, and a consequently erroneous holding that the property forms assets of the estate in bankruptcy, to be administered under the direction of the bankruptcy court, while subject to correction in the mode appropriate for the correction of errors (Lockwood v. Exchange Bank, 190 U.S. 294, 47 L. ed. 1061, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. 751), does not create a question of jurisdiction proper to be passed upon by this court by a direct appeal under the provisions of the act of March 3, 1891.
First Nat. Bank v. Klug, 186 U.S. 203, 204, 46 L. ed. 1127, 1128, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. 899, and cases cited. It necessarily results from the foregoing that, as the bankruptcy court determined that the proceeds of the insurance policies in the hands of the trustee were assets of the estate in bankruptcy, and not exempt property of the bankrupt, the jurisdiction existed to proceed to adjudicate the validity of an alleged equitable lien upon such property. Hutchinson v. Otis, 190 U.S. 552, 555, 47 L. ed. 1179, 1181, 23 Sup. Ct. Rep. 778.
As, therefore, upon the record before us, the jurisdiction of the court was not in issue within the meaning of the act of March 3, 1891, the direct appeal to this court was not properly brought, and the order must be appeal dismissed.

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