The City of Boston, Plaintiff In Error v. David Lecraw
Decision Date | 01 December 1854 |
Citation | 15 L.Ed. 118,17 How. 426,58 U.S. 426 |
Parties | THE CITY OF BOSTON, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. DAVID R. LECRAW |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
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Shively v. Bowlby
...even when they would be no actual injury to navigation. Mass. Colony Laws, (Ed. 1660,) p. 50; Id. (Ed. 1672) pp. 90, 91; City of Boston v. Lecraw, 17 How. 426, 432, 433; Richardson v. City of Boston, 19 How. 263, and 24 How. 188; Com. v. Alger, 7 Cush. 53, 67-81. It is because of the ordina......
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... ... Abrams, and A. L. Brown, all of Boston, and W. E. Beehan, of ... New York City, for ... plaintiff Brink relates to an electrical sign on the roof ... Alger, 7 Cush. 53; Boston v ... Lecraw, 17 How. 426, 433, 15 L.Ed. 118.Increasing the ... for this decision. There was no error in the treatment of the ... demands and customs ... ...
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Henderson v. City of Wilmington
...669, 46 A. 774." Black, supra, p. 385, defines "dock": "The space, in a river or harbor, inclosed between two wharves. City of Boston v. Lecraw, 17 How. 434, 15 L.Ed. 118; Bingham v. Doanne, 9 Ohio, 167. 'A dock is artificial basin in connection with a harbor, used for the reception of vess......
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Dep't of Labor & Indus. v. Rowley
...Thus, by invoking the self-injury bar, the Department alleges deliberate self-injury (not suicide).5 See City of Boston v. Lecraw, 58 U.S. (17 How.) 426, 435, 15 L.Ed. 118 (1854) (because “ ‘the law will not presume any man's acts to be illegal,’ ” courts “will ascribe long possession which......
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