 | Nathaniel Tyler - 1879 - 546 էջ
...for freight are " simple contracts " entered into between the corporations and the shipper " for a consideration paid by the latter." " These contracts...meaning of the word. They are not subjects of trade or barter offered in the market as something having an existence and value independent of the parties... | |
 | 1901 - 958 էջ
...contracts of indemnity against loss by fire, entered into between the corporations and the assured for a consideration paid by the latter. These contracts...offered in the market as something having an existence in value independent of the parties to them. They are not commodities to be shipped or forwarded from... | |
 | 1891 - 974 էջ
...are not articles of "commerce, " In any proper menningof th« word, among others for the reason that they are not subjects of trade and barter offered...not commodities to be shipped or forwarded from one »täte to another, and then put up for sale. In the case of Bobbins v. Taxing Dist., 120 US 4S9, 7... | |
 | 1904 - 926 էջ
...this language applicable as well to a lottery ticket? Is a lottery ticket subject to trade and barter as something having •an existence and value independent of the parties to it? The value of an insurance policy is . independent of the paper itself and rests upon the assurance... | |
 | Fire Underwriters' Association of the Northwest - 1891 - 278 էջ
...of commerce. - Policies of insurance are simple contracts of indemnity against loss by fire," and " not articles of commerce in any proper meaning of the word. They are not subjects of barter and trade offered in the market as something having an existence and value independent of the... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - 1894 - 928 էջ
...the meaning of the Constitution, though the parties be domiciled in different States. The court say these contracts are not articles of commerce in any...something having an existence and value independent of the parlies to them. They are not commodities to be shipped or forwarded from one State to another, and... | |
 | William Weeks Morrill - 1894 - 928 էջ
...commerce. Telegraphic communication is not commerce ; "it is not a subject of trade and barter offered in market as something having an existence and value independent of the parties to them." It is not an intercourse — though it may be, and doubtless is, an important and valuable instrument... | |
 | Ezra Parmalee Prentice, John Garret Egan - 1898 - 474 էջ
...contracts of indemnity against loss by fire, entered into between the corporation and the assured, for a consideration paid by the latter. These contracts...something having an existence and value independent of 1 Telegraph Co. v. Alabama, 132 Nev. 102; In re Pennsylvania TeleUS 472; Leloupv. Mobile, 127 US phone... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1901 - 1488 էջ
...between the corporations end the assured, fora consideration paid by the latter. These contracts are Dot articles of commerce in any proper meaning of the...barter, offered in the market as something having am existence and value independent of the parlie» to them. They are not commodities to heshipped or... | |
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Issuing a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce. The policies are simple contracts of indemnity against loss by fire, entered into l>ctween the corporations and the assured, for a consideration paid by the latter. These contracts are not... 
