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# Insurance Company v. Mowry

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United States Supreme Court
96 U.S. 544
Insurance Company v. Mowry
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Rhode Island.
This was an action by Daniel A. Mowry, upon a policy of insurance for the sum of $10,000, issued to him, for his sole benefit, by the Union Mutual Life Insurance Company,-a corporation created by the laws of Maine,-upon the life of Nelson H. Mowry.
The facts of the case and the instructions to the jury are stated in the opinion of the court.
The concluding clause of the policy is as follows: 'But the same [the policy] shall not be binding until countersigned and delivered by John Shepley, agent at Providence, R. I., nor until the advance premium is paid.'
There was a verdict for the plaintiff; and, judgment having been rendered thereon, the defendant sued out this writ of error.
Mr. Benjamin F. Thurston and Mr. Charles H. Parkhurst for the plaintiff in error.
The representations of Shepley, relating to the rights and liabilities of the parties to a contract to be executed in futuro, are not matter of estoppel; but, if they were, there must be proof that the company authorized him to make them, or subsequently ratified them. There was no such proof. The only ratification is contained in the last clause of the policy, and his authority is there expressly limited to countersigning and delivering that instrument and receiving the premium. His promise that the company would give timely notice to the plaintiff when the premiums were due did not bind the company, nor waive the forfeiture incurred by the non-payment of them.
The policy determines the rights of the parties; and its provisions cannot, in the absence of fraud, be defeated by the verbal agreements, or the conduct of the parties or their agents, which preceded its execution and delivery.
The instructions of the learned judge below were evidently erroneous.
Mr. J. J. Storrow, contra.
The failure of the plaintiff to pay the second premium ad diem was owing to the conduct of Shepley. He was the agent of the company to negotiate the contract of insurance and give validity to it by his signature, as well as to receive the premium. As no limitation of his authority was proved, the jury were warranted in inferring that none existed, and that his representations and promises which misled the plaintiff were those of the company. The latter was therefore estopped from setting up the clause of forfeiture. Insurance Company v. Wilkinson, 13 Wall. 222; Same v. Mahone, 21 id. 152; Rockford Insurance Co. v. Nelson, 75 Ill. 548; Boos v. World Mutual Life Insurance Co., Thomp. & C. (N. Y.) 364; Mayer v. The Mutual Life Insurance Co. of Chicago, 38 Iowa, 304.
MR. JUSTICE FIELD delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Insurance Company v. Norton/Dissent Strong

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United States Supreme Court
96 U.S. 234
Insurance Company v. Norton
MR. JUSTICE SWAYNE, MR. JUSTICE FIELD, and MR. JUSTICE STRONG dissented.
MR. JUSTICE STRONG.
I dissent from the judgment given in this case. The insurance effected by the policy became forfeited by the non-payment ad diem of the premium note. The policy then ceased to be a binding contract. It was so expressly stipulated in the instrument. Admitting that the company could afterwards elect to treat the policy as still in force, or, in other words, could waive the forfeiture, the local agent could not, unless he was so authorized by his principals. The policy declared that agents should not have authority to make such waivers. And there is no evidence in this case that the company gave to the agent parol authority to waive a forfeiture after it had occurred. They had ratified his acts extending the time of payment of premium notes, when the extension was made before the notes fell due. But no practice of the company sanctioned any act of its agent done after a policy had expired, by which new life was given to a dead contract.
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# John Bunyan's Dream Story

This retelling of The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan was published in 1913 by American Book Company, New York.
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JOHN BUNYAN'S DREAM STORY
"THE NAME OF THAT CHAMBER WAS PEACE" (See page 60)
JOHN BUNYAN'S
DREAM STORY
The Pilgrim's Progress Retold for Children and Adapted to School Reading
BY JAMES BALDWIN
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO
Copyright, 1913, by JAMES BALDWIN.
Copyright, 1913, in Great Britain.
DREAM STORY. E. P. 2
* Foreword
* Prologue
* Part 1
** Section 1
** Section 2
** Section 3
* Part 2
** Section 1
** Section 2
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# Johnson v. Virginia/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
373 U.S. 61
Johnson v. Virginia
The petition for a writ of certiorari is granted, the judgment of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia is reversed, and the case is remanded for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
The petitioner, Ford T. Johnson, Jr., was convicted of contempt of the Traffic Court of the City of Richmond, Virginia, and appealed his conviction to the Hustings Court, where he was tried without a jury and again convicted. The Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia refused to grant a writ of error on the ground that the judgment appealed from was 'plainly right,' but the Chief Justice of that court stayed execution of the judgment pending disposition of this petition for certiorari.
The evidence at petitioner's trial in the Hustings Court is summarized in an approved statement of facts. According to this statement, the witnesses for the State testified as follows: The petitioner, a Negro, was seated in the Traffic Court in a section reserved for whites, and when requested to move by the bailiff, refused to do so. The judge then summoned the petitioner to the bench and instructed him to be seated in the right-hand section of the courtroom, the section reserved for Negroes. The petitioner moved back in front of the counsel table and remained standing with his arms folded, stating that he preferred standing and indicating that he would not comply with the judge's order. Upon refusal to obey the judge's further direction to be seated, the petitioner was arrested for contempt. At no time did he behave in a boisterous or abusive manner, and there was no disorder in the courtroom. The State, in its Brief in Opposition filed in this Court, concedes that in the section of the Richmond Traffic Court reserved for spectators, seating space 'is assigned on the basis of racial designation, the seats on one side of the aisle being for use of Negro citizens and the seats on the other side being for the use of white citizens.'
It is clear from the totality of circumstances, and particularly the fact that the petitioner was peaceably seated in the section reserved for whites before being summoned to the bench, that the arrest and conviction rested entirely on the refusal to comply with the segregated seating requirements imposed in this particular courtroom. Such a conviction cannot stand, for it is no longer open to question that a State may not constitutionally require segregation of public facilities. See, e.g., Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 74 S.Ct. 686, 98 L.Ed. 873; Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Dawson, 350 U.S. 877, 76 S.Ct. 133, 100 L.Ed. 774; Turner v. Memphis, 369 U.S. 350, 82 S.Ct. 805, 7 L.Ed.2d 762. State-compelled segregation in a court of justice is a manifest violation of the State's duty to deny no one the equal protection of its laws.
Reversed and remanded.

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# Johnson v. Voyles/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
394 U.S. 216
Johnson v. Voyles
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis and the petition for a writ of certiorari are granted. The judgment is vacated and the case is remanded to the Supreme Court of Texas for further consideration in light of Smith v. Hooey, Judge, 393 U.S. 374, 89 S.Ct. 575, 21 L.Ed.2d 607.

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# Johnson v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (280 U.S. 320)

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United States Supreme Court
280 U.S. 320
Johnson v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD MERCHANT FLEET
CORPORATION et al.
v.
LUSTGARTEN.
No. 32. FEDERAL SUGAR REFINING CO., Petitioner,
v.
UNITED STATES.
No. 56.
ROYAL INS.C.O., Limited, et al.
v.
UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD MERCHANT FLEET CORPORATION.
No. 123.
Argued and Reargued November 26 and 27, 1929.
Decided January 6, 1930.
Mr. Silas B. Axtell, of New York City, for petitioner Johnson.
Mr. Oscar R. Houston, of New York City, for petitioner Federal Sugar Refining Co.
Mr. John C. Crawley, of New York City, for petitioners Royal Ins. Co. et al.
The Attorney General and Messrs. Chauncey G. Parker, of Washington, D. C., and Claude R. Branch, of Providence, R, I., for U.S. Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation.
Mr. Myron Scott, of New York City, for petitioner in No. 5, pro hac vice, by special leave of court.
Mr. Silas B. Axtell, of New York City, for respondent Benjamin Lustgarten.
The Attorney General, for the United States.
[Argument of Counsel from page 321 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice BUTLER delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Johnson v. Washington Loan & Trust Company

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United States Supreme Court
224 U.S. 224
Johnson v. Washington Loan & Trust Company
Argued: December 8, 1911. --- Decided: April 1, 1912
Mr. A. S. Worthington for appellants.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 225-230 intentionally omitted]
Mr. B. F. Leighton for appellee.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 230-232 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Hughes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Johnson v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (279 U.S. 819)

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United States Supreme Court
279 U.S. 819
Johnson v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
Mr. Silas B. Axtell, of New York City, for petitioner.

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# Johnson v. Voyles

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United States Supreme Court
394 U.S. 216
Johnson v. Voyles
Crawford C. Martin, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Nola White, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Robert C. Flowers and Allo B. Crow, Jr., Asst. Attys. Gen., and Stanley Kirk, for respondents.
On Petition for Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Texas.
PER CURIAM.

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# Johnson v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation (279 U.S. 819)/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
279 U.S. 819
Johnson v. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation
This cause is restored to the docket for reargument and is set down for hearing with No. 676, United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation v. Lustgarten, the two cases to be argued as one. The Court especially invites argument on the following question:
1. Is the United States Shipping Board Merchant Fleet Corporation, as an agency of the United States, immune for suit for the tortious acts of persons whom it has employed to carry on the operation of merchant vessels of the United States, and who have been selected by it with due care?
2. Are the remedies given against the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation by the suits in admiralty act of March 9, 1920, exclusive of all other remedies, whether at law or in admiralty, for liabilities of the Fleet Corporation growing out of the operation of merchant vessels of the United States?
3. Is the two-year period of limitation prescribed in the suits in admiralty act applicable to the present suit?

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# Johnson v. Virginia

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United States Supreme Court
373 U.S. 61
Johnson v. Virginia
PER CURIAM.

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# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Dissemblers

THE DISSEMBLERS
"IT was not you I came to please, Only myself," flipped she; "I like this spot of phantasies, And thought you far from me." But O, he was the secret spell That led her to the lea!
"It was not she who shaped my ways, Or works, or thoughts," he said. "I scarcely marked her living days, Or missed her much when dead." But O, his joyance knew its knell When daisies hid her head!
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Beauty

THE BEAUTY
O DO not praise my beauty more, In such word-wild degree, And say I am one all eyes adore; For these things harass me!
But do for ever softly say: "From now unto the end Come weal, come wanzing, come what may, Dear, I will be your friend."
I hate my beauty in the glass: My beauty is not I: I wear it: none cares whether, alas, Its wearer live or die!
The inner I O care for, then, Yea, me and what I am, And shall be at the gray hour when My cheek begins to clam.
Note.—"The Regent Street beauty, Miss Verrey, the Swiss confectioner's daughter, whose personal attractions have been so mischievously exaggerated, died of fever on Monday evening, brought on by the annoyance she had been for some time subject to.”—London paper, October 1828.
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Chimes play "Life's a Bumper"

THE CHIMES PLAY "LIFE'S A BUMPER!"
"AWAKE! I'm off to cities far away," I said; and rose, on peradventures bent. The chimes played “Life's a Bumper!” on that day To the measure of my walking as I went: Their sweetness frisked and floated on the lea, As they played out "Life's a Bumper!" there to me.
"Awake!" I said. "I go to take a bride!" —The sun arose behind me ruby-red As I journeyed townwards from the countryside, The chiming bells saluting near ahead. Their sweetness swelled in tripping tings of glee As they played out “Life's a Bumper!" there to me.
“Again arise." I seek a turfy slope, And go forth slowly on an autumn noon, And there I lay her who has been my hope, And think, "O may I follow hither soon!" While on the wind the chimes come cheerily, Playing out "Life's a Bumper!" there to me.
1913.
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Collector cleans his Picture

THE COLLECTOR CLEANS HIS PICTURE
Fili hominis, ecce ego tollo a te desiderabile oculorum tuorum in plaga.—Ezech. xxiv. 16.
HOW I remember cleaning that strange picture! . . . I had been deep in duty for my sick neighbour— His besides my own—over several Sundays, Often, too, in the week; so with parish pressures, Baptisms, burials, doctorings, conjugal counsel— All the whatnots asked of a rural parson— Faith, I was well-nigh broken, should have been fully Saving for one small secret relaxation, One that in mounting manhood had grown my hobby.
This was to delve at whiles for easellumber, Stowed in the backmost slums of a soon-reached city, Merely on chance to uncloak some worthy canvas, Panel, or plaque, blacked blind by uncouth adventure, Yet under all concealing a precious art-feat, Such I had found not yet. My latest capture Came from the rooms of a trader in ancient house-gear Who had no scent of beauty or soul for brushcraft. Only a tittle cost it—murked with grimefilms, Gatherings of slow years, thick-varnished over, Never a feature manifest of man's painting.
So, one Saturday, time ticking hard on midnight Ere an hour subserved, I set me upon it. Long with coiled-up sleeves I cleaned and yet cleaned, Till a first fresh spot, a high light, looked forth, Then another, like fair flesh, and another;
Then a curve, a nostril, and next a finger, Tapering, shapely, significantly pointing slantwise. "Flemish?" I said. "Nay, Spanish. . . . But, nay, Italian!" —Then meseemed it the guise of the ranker Venus, Named of some Astarte, of some Cotytto. Down I knelt before it and kissed the panel, Drunk with the lure of love's inhibited dreamings.
Till the dawn I rubbed, when there gazed up at me A hag, that had slowly emerged from under my hands there, Pointing the slanted finger towards a bosom Eaten away of a rot from the lusts of a lifetime. . . . —I could have ended myself in heart-shook horror. Stunned I sat till roused by a clear-voiced bell-chime, Fresh and sweet as the dew-fleece under my luthern. It was the matin service calling to me From the adjacent steeple.
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Contretemps

THE CONTRETEMPS
A FORWARD rush by the lamp in the gloom, And we clasped, and almost kissed; But she was not the woman whom I had promised to meet in the thawing brume On that harbour-bridge; nor was I he of her tryst.
So loosening from me swift she said: "O why, why feign to be The one I had meant!—to whom I have sped To fly with, being so sorrily wed!" —'Twas thus and thus that she upbraided me.
My assignation had struck upon Some others' like it, I found. And her lover rose on the night anon; And then her husband entered on The lamplit, snowflaked, sloppiness around.
"Take her and welcome, man!” he cried: "I wash my hands of her. I'll find me twice as good a bride!" —All this to me, whom he had eyed, Plainly, as his wife's planned deliverer.
And next the lover: "Little I knew, Madam, you had a third! Kissing here in my very view!" —Husband and lover then withdrew. I let them; and I told them not they erred.
Why not? Well, there faced she and I— Two strangers who'd kissed, or near, Chancewise. To see stand weeping by A woman once embraced, will try The tension of a man the most austere.
So it began; and I was young, She pretty, by the lamp, As flakes came waltzing down among The waves of her clinging hair, that hung Heavily on her temples, dark and damp.
And there alone still stood we two; She one cast off for me, Or so it seemed: while night ondrew, Forcing a parley what should do We twain hearts caught in one catastrophe.
In stranded souls a common strait Wakes latencies unknown, Whose impulse may precipitate A life-long leap. The hour was late, And there was the Jersey boat with its funnel agroan.
"Is wary walking worth much pother?” It grunted, as still it stayed. "One pairing is as good as another Where all is venture! Take each other, And scrap the oaths that you have aforetime made." . . .
—Of the four involved there walks but one On earth at this late day. And what of the chapter so begun? In that odd complex what was done? Well; happiness comes in full to none: Let peace lie on lulled lips: I will not say.
Weymouth.
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Children and Sir Nameless

THE CHILDREN AND SIR NAMELESS
SIR NAMELESS, once of Athelhall, declared: "These wretched children romping in my park Trample the herbage till the soil is bared, And yap and yell from early morn till dark! Go keep them harnessed to their set routines: Thank God I've none to hasten my decay; For green remembrance there are better means Than offspring, who but wish their sires away."
Sir Nameless of that mansion said anon: "To be perpetuate for my mightiness Sculpture must image me when I am gone."
—He forthwith summoned carvers there express To shape a figure stretching seven-odd feet (For he was tall) in alabaster stone, With shield, and crest, and casque, and sword complete: When done a statelier work was never known.
Three hundred years hied; Church-restorers came, And, no one of his lineage being traced, They thought an effigy so large in frame Best fitted for the floor. There it was placed, Under the seats for schoolchildren. And they Kicked out his name, and hobnailed off his nose; And, as they yawn through sermon-time, they say, "Who was this old stone man beneath our toes?"
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/Side by Side

SIDE BY SIDE
So there sat they, The estranged two, Thrust in one pew By chance that day; Placed so, breath-nigh, Each comer unwitting Who was to be sitting In touch close by.
Thus side by side Blindly alighted, They seemed united As groom and bride, Who'd not communed For many years — Lives from twain spheres With hearts distuned.
Her fringes brushed His garment's hem As the harmonies rushed Through each of them: Her lips could be heard In the creed and psalms, And their fingers neared At the giving of alms.
And women and men, The matins ended, By looks commended Them, joined again. Quickly said she, "Don't undeceive them— Better thus leave them:" "Quite so," said he.
Slight words!—the last Between them said, Those two, once wed, Who had not stood fast. Diverse their ways Fron the western door, To meet no more In their span of days.
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/Summer Schemes

SUMMER SCHEMES
WHEN friendly summer calls again, Calls again Her little fifers to these hills, We'll go—we two—to that arched fane Of leafage where they prime their bills Before they start to flood the plain With quavers, minims, shakes, and trills. "—We'll go," I sing; but who shall say What may not chance before that day!
And we shall see the waters spring, Waters spring From chinks the scrubby copses crown; And we shall trace their oncreeping To where the cascade tumbles down And sends the bobbing growths aswing, And ferns not quite but almost drown. "—We shall," I say; but who may sing Of what another moon will bring!
# Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses/The Child and the Sage

THE CHILD AND THE SAGE
You say, O Sage, when weather-checked, "I have been favoured so With cloudless skies, I must expect This dash of rain or snow."
"Since health has been my lot," you say, "So many months of late, I must not chafe that one short day Of sickness mars my state."
You say, "Such bliss has been my share From Love's unbroken smile, It is but reason I should bear A cross therein awhile."
And thus you do not count upon Continuance of joy; But, when at ease, expect anon A burden of annoy.
But, Sage—this Earth—why not a place Where no reprisals reign, Where never a spell of pleasantness Makes reasonable a pain?
December 21, 1908.