 | United States. Supreme Court - 1871 - 730 sider
...may not be incurred by counties independent of the statute. Undoubtedly they may be. The obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and...statute, will compel restitution or compensation. But this is a very different thing from enforcing an obligation attempted to be created in one way,... | |
 | 1881 - 638 sider
...Marsh v. Fulton Co., 10 Wall. C84, "the obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural or artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property...statute, will compel restitution or compensation." it is argued, however, that as the city was only authorized by law to borrow money at a rate of interest,... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (5th Circuit), William Burnham Woods - 1876 - 812 sider
...right to recover. By its transactions the city incurred liabilities which the law will enforce. 1. If a county obtains the money or property of others...statute, will compel restitution or compensation. Marsh v. Fulton County, 10 Wall., 684; Maher v. The City of Chicago, 38 111., 266-273; Gas Co. v. San... | |
 | 1902 - 2074 sider
...may not be incurred by counties independent of the statute. Undoubtedly they may be. The obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and...statute, will compel restitution or compensation." In the case of Louisiana v. Wood, 102 US 294, 26 L. Ed. 153, the following facts appear: On March 28,... | |
 | 1904 - 1126 sider
...this quotation is given from Marsh v. Fulton County, 10 Wall. 676-684, 19 L. Ed. 1040: "The obligation to do Justice rests upon all persons, natural and...or property of others without authority, the law, Independently of any statute, will compel restitution or compensation." The same rule is also asserted... | |
 | 1887 - 1910 sider
...alluded to in the case of May v. Commissioners of Logan Co., 30 Fed. Rep. 258, 259:) "The obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and...the money or property of others without authority oflaw, the law, independent of any statute, will compel restitution or compensation." My conclusion... | |
 | 1894 - 2096 sider
...persons." As was said by the supreme court, in Marsh v. Fulton Co., 10 Wall. 676-684, "the obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and...and, if a county obtains the money or property of other^ without authority, the law, independent of any statute, 'will compel restitution or compensation."... | |
 | 1883 - 1914 sider
...v. Fulton Co. 10 AVall. 676-OS4, and repeated in Louisiana v. Wood, 102 US 294-299, the obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and artificial, and if the county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the law, independent of any statute,... | |
 | George Washington Field - 1881 - 620 sider
...may not be incurred by counties independent of the statute. Undoubtedly they may be. The obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and...statute, will compel restitution or compensation. But this is a very different thing from enforcing an obligation attempted to be created in one way,... | |
 | Chauncey F. Black, Samuel B. Smith - 1881 - 556 sider
...liabilities may not be incurred liy counties independent of the statute. Undoubtedly they may. The obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and...statute, will compel restitution or compensation. But this is a very different thing from enforcing an obligation attempted to be created in one way,... | |
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the obligation to do justice rests upon all persons, natural and artificial, and if a county obtains the money or property of others without authority, the law, independent of any statute, will compel restitution or compensation. 
