City of Winona v. Cowdrey
Decision Date | 01 October 1876 |
Citation | 23 L.Ed. 987,93 U.S. 612 |
Parties | CITY OF WINONA v. COWDREY |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
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State ex rel. City of St. Louis v. Public Service Com'n of Missouri
... ... 5 Thompson on Corporations, sec ... 6627; United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Assn., ... 166 U.S. 340, 41 L.Ed. 1027; City of Winona v ... Cowdrey, 93 U.S. 612; Doherty v. Rice, 186 F ... 212; Sec. 10465, R. S. 1919, now Sec. 5177, R. S. 1929; ... Electric Public Utilities ... ...
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State ex rel. St. Louis v. Public Service Comm., 30699.
...purchase. 5 Thompson on Corporations, sec. 6627; United States v. Trans-Missouri Freight Assn., 166 U.S. 340, 41 L. Ed. 1027; City of Winona v. Cowdrey, 93 U.S. 612; Doherty v. Rice, 186 Fed. 212; Sec. 10465, R.S. 1919, now Sec. 5177, R.S. 1929; Electric Public Utilities Co. v. West, 140 At......
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Stuart v. Stuart
...no express assignment is necessary before courts will enforce contracts that bind or benefit a successor. See City of Winona v. Cowdrey, 93 U.S. 612, 617-18 (1876) (holding that city must pay successor company when city contractually agreed to pay for a railroad built in the company's own n......
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City of Winona v. Minnesota Railway Construction Company
... ... This ... motion was made upon the record already made in the case, and ... upon affidavits which tended to show that, until the decision ... in the supreme court ... [11 N.W. 229] ... of the United States in the case of City of Winona ... v. Cowdrey, in December 1876, (93 U.S. 612, 23 L.Ed ... 987,) the plaintiff's attorney believed the true ... interpretation of the contract required a connection across ... the river, between the St. Paul & Chicago railway and the La ... Crosse, Trempealeau & Prescott railroad, to be made directly ... ...
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