Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-03
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
Opinions Rendered in Cases of General
Interest

Chief Justice Fuller of the United States
Supreme Court yesterday decided in the case
of two Cinnamon ordered to be deported from
New York, Chin Bak Kun and Chin Wing.
that 1t could not go back of the ruling of
the commissioner and affirmed the opinion
of the court below. The court dismissed
eighteen other Chinese exclusion cases in
which there had been failure to prosecute
The court denied the petition of Thomas
Edison for a writ of certiorari in the case
between himself and the Mutoscope Com
pany, involving the moving picture pat
ents. The effect is to affirm the decision of
the lower court adverse to Mr.. Edison.
The court granted the motion to advance
the case of Downes agt. the United States,
known as the Russian sugar case. 1t was
set for hearing on the second Monday of
the next term of court.
In passing on the case of the Hanover
National Bank of New York agt. Max
Moyses, the court, in an opinion delivered
by Chief Justice Fuller decided the nation
al bankruptcy law to be constitutional
He also said: Congress may prescribe
any regulations concerning discharge in
bankruptcy that are not SO grossly I'M
reasonable as to be incompatible with fun
damental law, and we cannot find anything
in this act on that subject which would JUS
tify us in overthrowing it's action"
In the matter of the proceeding of Mar
cellus H. Lander, treasurer of Cuyahoga
county, Ohio, agt. the Mercantile National
discrimination against the bank in the mat
ter of taxation, the court affirmed the opin-
ion of the United States circuit court for
the district of Ohio, holding that there was
no discrimination and reversing the opin-
ion of the circuit court of appeals which
took a contrary view.
The court decided that the legislature of
the state of Alabama had a right to legis-
late SO as to deprive the Bienville Water
Supply Company of it's exclusive right to
supply water to the city of Mobile. The
case was brought to this court by the water
company.
Justice Brown delivered the opinion in
the case of the Pine River Logging and I'm
provement Company ct al. agt. the United
States, sustaining the finding of the
court of appeals holding the company re-
sponsible to the government for $4,000
The court decided to review the case of
of the French republic agt. the Saratoga
Vichy Spring Company by granting a writ
of certiorari The French government seeks
to enjoin the use of the trade name "Vichy."
The decision of the court below was ia
vorable to the Saratoga Company.
In the case of John G. Jenkins and other
stockholders of the First National Bank of
that city, involving the right of the state
to tax the banks stock, the court affirmed
| the decree of the supreme court Of the
state of New York which held that the
states practice with reference to national
banks is not different from the practice in
regard to state banks.
Justice Brown delivered the opinion in
the case of the Minnesota and ST. Louis
Railroad Company agt the state of Mime
sofa. relative to the right of the railroad and
warehouse commission of that state to fix
the rate for the transportation of hard
coal from the city of Duluth to southwest
ern points in the state, sustaining the
states contention in that respect.