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# Erie Railroad Company v. Winfield

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United States Supreme Court
244 U.S. 170
Erie Railroad Company v. Winfield
Argued: March 1, 1916. ---
Restored to docket for reargument November 13, 1916.
Reargued February 1 and 2, 1917.
Decided May 21, 1917.
Messrs. George S. Hobart and Gilbert Collins for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Harry Lane for defendant in error.
Mr. Justice Van Devanter delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Erie Railway Company v. Pennsylvania

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# Erie Railway Company v. Pennsylvania (82 U.S. 282)

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United States Supreme Court
82 U.S. 282
Erie Railway Company v. Pennsylvania
A case, like the preceding one, in error to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff in error, in the present case, was a corporation created by the State of New York, which by acts of the Pennsylvania legislature of February 16th, 1841, and March 26th, 1846, was authorized to construct its railroad through a portion of Pennsylvania, paying for the privilege the annual sum of $10,000, and being subjected to taxation on so much of its stock as equalled the cost of construction of that part of its road situate in Pennsylvania, in the same manner and at the same rate as other similar property was, or might be, subject.
Under an act of Assembly of the State, of August 25th, 1864, a tax was levied upon freight carried upon that portion of the road situate in Pennsylvania, either taken up within the State and carried out, or received by the company in another State for the sole purpose of being brought within it, and actually so brought. The question now was, whether that act, so far as it taxed such freight, was constitutional. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania had held that it was. The case being brought here, was elaborately and ably argued by Messrs. W. W. McFarland and J. W. Simonton, for the plaintiff in error; and by Mr. Wayne McVeigh, contra, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Of necessity the arguments were to some extent similar to those meant to be reported in the preceding case; but on both sides they were presented with fresh aspects, and with varied illustrations.
Mr. Justice STRONG gave the judgment of the court.

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# Erie Railway Company v. Pennsylvania (82 U.S. 282)/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
82 U.S. 282
Erie Railway Company v. Pennsylvania
He stated briefly that the question presented in the case was the same which the court had considered and answered in the preceding one; and that for the reasons given in the opinion of the court there, the act, so far as it taxed the sort of freight above mentioned, was to be held unconstitutional. As in the preceding case, therefore, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania was reversed, and the record remitted for further proceedings in conformity with the opinion of this court.

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# Whiteside v. Oakman

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WHITESIDE verʃus OAKMAN.
T
Ingerʃoll now moved for a rule to fhew caufe, why the attachment fhould not be quafhed ; obferving, that it the fame thing might be done in a circuitous manner, he fuppofed it could not, in this way, be deemed too late: For, upon entering fpecial bail, the Plaintiff might be called on to fhew caufe of action ; and attachments are often fet afide where no caufe is fhewn.
SHIPPEN,Preʃident. – It is very late to move for a rule of this nature. If there is a miftake in the proceedings, but not on the merits, to fhew the caufe of action may be required, after fpecial bail is entered. We fhould be afraid, however, of introducing fo dangerous a practice as would be countenanced by granting the prefent motion. ​
1788.
Ingerʃol faid, that,if the Court were of opinion, that he was too late, he fhould not certainly prefs the queftion ; but wave his motion ; which was accordingly done.
# Whitewash

   She found a candle and dragged herself up the long winding stairs and through the dark passages, guided by instinct and the smell of hay. ... Her room door gave as she touched it, but no light shone from within, and suddenly Sonia, her hair falling about her ears, her eyes wide with excitement, stood before her. Only an instant the vision lasted, her candle was extinguished, and Sonia's voice gave warning in a whisper: "Be quiet! Somebody is coming over the roofs!"
WHITEWASH
"HE'S AN ENGLISHMAN, I'LL WAGER A FRANC."
(See page 20)
Whitewash
By Ethel Watts Mumford
Author of "Dupes," "Partners," etc.
Illustrated by A. G. Learned
Boston Dana Estes & Company Publishers
Copyright,
BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY
All rights reserved
Published August, 1903 WHITEWASH
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. SImonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
* page
* "'He's an Englishman, I'll wager a franc'" (See page 20)Frontispiece
* "'Really? I thought you were mere acquaintances'"71
* "Philippa gazed at it in delight, then ... hastily hid the jewel in her bosom"96
* "Suddenly his eyes met Victoria's"115
* "The girl turned abruptly"260
* "The light burned brightly in the woman's room and showed her dark form sharply"282
Prologue
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
* Chapter X
* Chapter XI
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# Whiteside v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
93 U.S. 247
Whiteside v. United States
APPEAL from the Court of Claims.
This was a suit brought Dec. 21, 1871, against the United States, to recover $17,356, expended by claimants in hauling, baling, and ginning cotton in Arkansas, in 1865, under a contract with A. B. Miller, assistant special agent of the treasury, made at Camden, Ark., dated Nov. 10, 1865, by which they agreed to proceed to La Fayette County, procure evidence of the right of the United States to cotton there, put the same into shipping order, and transport it to Camden, for a half-interest in all cotton condemned. In all cases of a release after a seizure, upon sufficient evidence, they were to be repaid 'all expenses of transportation, repairing,' &c. In November and December, 1865, they delivered to Miller three lots of cotton, aggregating five hundred and twenty-two bales. Two of these lots, comprising four hundred and fifty-one bales, were, Jan. 9, 1866, taken from the warehouse at Camden, by General May, commanding the district, and turned over to one Harvey, the alleged owner of them. The claimants had hauled the cotton nearly eighty miles, rebaled it, &c., and ginned a part, for which they were never paid. Two undated vouchers, certified by Miller and approved by O. H. Burbridge, supervising special agent of the treasury, were given the claimants, showing the total amount by them thus expended to be $17,356. Neither was presented to the Treasury Department for payment. On the 28th of March, 1866, Burbridge made the following indorsement on the contract: 'Subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the within contract is approved, so far as it conforms to the regulations of the Treasury Department for paying one-fourth of the cotton condemned, and it is recommended that one-half be allowed.' The defendant pleaded the general denial and the Statute of Limitations. The Court of Claims, upon the facts found, ruled as matter of law,--
'1. That the contract relied on by the claimant, not being approved by the supervising special agent of the treasury, was incomplete, and, no benefit having resulted to the government from its alleged fulfilment, there is no legal or equitable ground for recovery.
'2. That, if the contract was valid, the loss to the claimants was caused by the illegal seizure of General May, and for that the government is not liable.'
The petition of the claimants was dismissed, and they brought the case here.
Argued by Mr. Joseph Casey for the appellants, who cited Salomon v. United States, 19 Wall. 17; United States v. Gill, 20 id. 517; Reeside v. United States, 8 id. 38.
Mr. Assistant Attorney-General Smith, contra.
MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Dream Tales and Prose Poems/Poems in Prose

This cycle of lyrical miniatures written in 1979-1882 was originally titled by its author Posthuma, then Senilia. The latter title is sometimes used along with the title Poems in Prose which appeared as late as in October 11, 1882, less than a year before Ivan Turgenev's death. Constance Garnett follows the composition of the Russian edition of 1882, omitting only one poem. Many of Turgenev's other prose poems were unpublished until as late as 1929. The final poem of this cycle, The Russian Tongue has been the most well-known of them all, and is featured in multiple Russian language study courses for Russian schools as well as for learners of Russian as a foreign language.
Poems in Prose
I
The Country A Conversation The Old Woman The Dog My Adversary The Beggar Thou shalt hear the fool's judgment... A Contented Man A Rule of Life The End of the World. A Dream.
Masha The Fool An Eastern Legend
Two Stanzas The Sparrow The Skulls The Workman and the Man with White Hands The Rose To the Memory of U. P. Vrevsky The Last Meeting A Visit Necessitas-Vis-Libertas! A Bas-Relief Alms The Insect Cabbage Soup The Realm of Azure
Two Rich Men
The Old Man
The Reporter The Two Brothers The Egoist The Banquet of the Supreme Being The Sphinx The Nymphs
Friend and Enemy Christ
II
The Stone The Doves To-Morrow! To-Morrow! Nature 'Hang Him!' What Shall I Think?... 'How fair, how fresh were the roses...' On The Sea N. N. Stay! The Monk We Will Still Fight On Prayer The Russian Tongue
# Dream Tales and Prose Poems/Poems in Prose/A Visit

A VISIT
I was sitting at the open window . . . in the morning, the early morning of the first of May.
The dawn had not yet begun; but already ​the dark, warm night grew pale and chill at its approach.
No mist had risen, no breeze was astir, all was colourless and still . . . but the nearness of the awakening could be felt, and the rarer air smelt keen and moist with dew.
Suddenly, at the open window, with a light whirr and rustle, a great bird flew into my room.
I started, looked closely at it. . . . It was not a bird; it was a tiny winged woman, dressed in a narrow long robe flowing to her feet.
She was grey all over, the colour of mother-of-pearl; only the inner side of her wings glowed with the tender flush of an opening rose; a wreath of valley lilies entwined the scattered curls upon her little round head; and, like a butterfly's feelers, two peacock feathers waved drolly above her lovely rounded brow. She fluttered twice about the ceiling; her tiny face was laughing; laughing, too, were her great, clear, black eyes.
The gay frolic of her sportive flight set them flashing like diamonds.
She held in her hand the long stalk of a flower of the steppes—'the Tsar's sceptre,' the Russians call it—it is really like a sceptre.
Flying rapidly above me, she touched my head with the flower.
​I rushed towards her. . . . But already she had fluttered out of window, and darted away. . . .
In the garden, in a thicket of lilac bushes, a wood-dove greeted her with its first morning warble . . . and where she vanished, the milk-white sky flushed a soft pink.
I know thee. Goddess of Fantasy! Thou didst pay me a random visit by the way; thou hast flown on to the young poets.
О Poesy! Youth! Virginal beauty of woman! Thou couldst shine for me but for a moment, in the early dawn of early spring!
    May 1878.
# Dream Tales and Prose Poems/Poems in Prose/A Contented Man

A CONTENTED MAN
A young man goes skipping and bounding along a street in the capital. His movements are gay and alert; there is a sparkle in his eyes, a smirk on his lips, a pleasing flush on his beaming face. . . . He is all contentment and delight.
What has happened to him? Has he come ​in for a legacy? Has he been promoted? Is he hastening to meet his beloved? Or is it simply he has had a good breakfast, and the sense of health, the sense of well-fed prosperity, is at work in all his limbs? Surely they have not put on his neck thy lovely, eight-pointed cross, О Polish king, Stanislas?
No. He has hatched a scandal against a friend, has sedulously sown it abroad, has heard it, this same slander, from the lips of another friend, and—has himself believed it!
Oh, how contented! how kind indeed at this minute is this amiable, promising young man!
February 1878.
# Dream Tales and Prose Poems/Poems in Prose/A Rule of Life

A RULE OF LIFE
'If you want to annoy an opponent thoroughly, and even to harm him,' said a crafty old knave to me, 'you reproach him with the very defect or vice you are conscious of in yourself. Be indignant . . . and reproach him!
'To begin with, it will set others thinking you have not that vice.
'In the second place, your indignation may well be sincere . . . You can turn to account the pricks of your own conscience.
​If you, for instance, are a turncoat, reproach your opponent with having no convictions!
'If you are yourself slavish at heart, tell him reproachfully that he is slavish . . . the slave of civilisation, of Europe, of Socialism!'
'One might even say, the slave of anti-slavishness,' I suggested.
'You might even do that,' assented the cunning knave.
February 1878.
# Dream Tales and Prose Poems/Poems in Prose/Alms

ALMS
Near a large town, along the broad highroad walked an old sick man.
He tottered as he went; his old wasted legs, halting, dragging, stumbling, moved painfully and feebly, as though they did not belong to him; his clothes hung in rags about him; his uncovered head drooped on his breast. . . . He was utterly worn-out.
He sat down on a stone by the wayside, bent forward, leant his elbows on his knees, hid his face in his hands; and through the knotted fingers the tears dropped down on to the grey, dry dust.
He remembered. . . .
Remembered how he too had been strong ​and rich, and how he had wasted his health, and had lavished his riches upon others, friends and enemies. . . . And here, he had not now a crust of bread; and all had forsaken, him, friends even before foes, . . . Must he sink to begging alms? There was bitterness in his heart, and shame.
The tears still dropped and dropped, spotting the grey dust.
Suddenly he heard some one call him by his name; he lifted his weary head, and saw standing before him a stranger.
A face calm and grave, but not stern; eyes not beaming, but clear; a look penetrating, but not unkind.
'Thou hast given away all thy riches,' said a tranquil voice. . . . 'But thou dost not regret having done good, surely?'
'I regret it not,' answered the old man with a sigh; 'but here I am dying now.'
'And had there been no beggars who held out their hands to thee,' the stranger went on, 'thou wouldst have had none on whom to prove thy goodness; thou couldst not have done thy good works.'
The old man answered nothing, and pondered.
'So be thou also now not proud, poor man,' the stranger began again. 'Go thou, hold out thy hand; do thou too give to other good men ​a chance to prove in deeds that they are good.'
The old man started, raised his eyes . . . but already the stranger had vanished, and in the distance a man came into sight walking along the road.
The old man went up to him, and held out his hand. This man turned away with a surly face, and gave him nothing.
But after him another passed, and he gave the old man some trifling alms.
And the old man bought himself bread with the coppers given him, and sweet to him seemed the morsel gained by begging, and there was no shame in his heart, but the contrary: peace and joy came as a blessing upon him.
    May 1878.
# Dream Tales and Prose Poems

DREAM TALES
AND PROSE POEMS
BY
IVAN TURGENEV
Translated from the Russian
By CONSTANCE GARNETT
New York
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1897
CONTENTS
page
Poems in Prose
I
The Country A Conversation The Old Woman The Dog My Adversary The Beggar Thou shalt hear the fool's judgment... A Contented Man A Rule of Life The End of the World. A Dream.
Masha The Fool An Eastern Legend
Two Stanzas The Sparrow The Skulls The Workman and the Man with White Hands The Rose To the Memory of U. P. Vrevsky The Last Meeting A Visit Necessitas-Vis-Libertas! A Bas-Relief Alms The Insect Cabbage Soup The Realm of Azure
Two Rich Men
The Old Man
The Reporter The Two Brothers The Egoist The Banquet of the Supreme Being The Sphinx The Nymphs
Friend and Enemy Christ
II
The Stone The Doves To-Morrow! To-Morrow! Nature 'Hang Him!' What Shall I Think?... 'How fair, how fresh were the roses...' On The Sea N. N. Stay! The Monk We Will Still Fight On Prayer The Russian Tongue
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# Dream Tales and Prose Poems/Poems in Prose/A Conversation

A CONVERSATION
'Neither the Jungfrau nor the Finsteraarhorn has yet been trodden by the foot of man!'
The topmost peaks of the Alps. … A whole chain of rugged precipices. … The very heart of the mountains.
Over the mountain, a pale green, clear, dumb sky. Bitter, cruel frost; hard, sparkling snow; sticking out of the snow, the sullen peaks of the ice-covered, wind-swept mountains.
Two massive forms, two giants on the sides ​of the horizon, the Jungfrau and the Finsteraarhorn.
And the Jungfrau speaks to its neighbour: 'What canst thou tell that is new? thou canst see more. What is there down below?'
A few thousand years go by: one minute. And the Finsteraarhorn roars back in answer: 'Thick clouds cover the earth. … Wait a little!'
Thousands more years go by: one minute.
'Well, and now?' asks the Jungfrau.
'Now I see, there below all is the came. There are blue waters, black forests, grey heaps of piled-up stones. Among them are still fussing to and fro the insects, thou knowest, the bipeds that have never yet once defiled thee nor me.'
'Men?'
'Yes, men.'
Thousands of years go by: one minute.
'Well, and now?' asks the Jungfrau.
'There seem fewer insects to be seen,' thunders the Finsteraarhorn, 'it is clearer down below; the waters have shrunk, the forests are thinner.' Again thousands of years go by: one minute.
'What seeest thou?' says the Jungfrau.
'Close about us it seems purer,' answers the Finsteraarhorn, 'but there in the distance in the valleys are still spots, and something is moving.'
​'And now?' asks the Jungfrau, after more thousands of years: one minute.
'Now it is well,' answers the Finsteraarhorn, 'it is clean everywhere, quite white, wherever you look. … Everywhere is our snow, unbroken snow and ice. Everything is frozen. It is well now, it is quiet.'
'Good,' said the Jungfrau. 'But we have gossipped enough, old fellow. It's time to slumber.'
'It is time, indeed.'
The huge mountains sleep; the green, clear sky sleeps over the region of eternal silence.
February 1878.
# Williams v. Zuckert (369 U.S. 884)

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United States Supreme Court
369 U.S. 884
Williams v. Zuckert
Sidney Dickstein, David I. Shapiro, Lawrence Speiser and Melvin Wulf, for petitioner.
Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Orrick, Alan S. Rosenthal and Sherman L. Cohn, for respondents.

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# Williams v. Zuckert (371 U.S. 531)

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## Concurring Opinion

    Harlan

## Dissenting Opinion

    Douglas
United States Supreme Court
371 U.S. 531
Williams v. Zuckert
Argued: Dec. 13, 1962. --- Decided: Jan 14, 1963
David I. Shapiro, Washington, D.C., for petitioner.
Stephen J. Pollak, Washington, D.C., for respondents.
PER CURIAM.

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# Williams v. Zuckert (371 U.S. 531)/Concurrence Harlan

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United States Supreme Court
371 U.S. 531
Williams v. Zuckert
Argued: Dec. 13, 1962. --- Decided: Jan 14, 1963
Mr. Justice HARLAN concurs in the result.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS, with whom Mr. Justice BLACK concurs, dissenting.

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# Williams v. Weaver

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United States Supreme Court
100 U.S. 547
Williams v. Weaver
ERROR to the Court of Appeals of the State of New York.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Mr. George F. Edmunds and Mr. Matthew Hale for the plaintiff in error.
Mr. R. W .Peckham, contra.
MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

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