 | Eugene Wambaugh - 1915 - 1106 pàgines
...parliament, the rights of the plaintiffs are derived entirely from that act. This, like many other cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and...contract, must operate against the adventurers, and in favor of the public, and the plaintiffs can claim nothing that is nut clearly given them by the act."... | |
 | William Meade Fletcher - 1917 - 1150 pàgines
...cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and thé public, the terms of which are expressed1 in» the statute ; and the rule of construction in...contract must operate against the adventurers, and in favor of the public; and the. plaintiffs can claim nothing which is not Ed. 622* Charles River Bridge... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - 1925 - 1436 pàgines
...parliament, the rights of the plaintiffs are derived entirely from that act. This, like many other cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and...contract, must operate against the adventurers, and in favor of the public, and the plaintiffs can claim nothing that is not clearly given them by the act."... | |
 | 1883 - 964 pàgines
...parliament, the rights of the plaintiff are derived entirely from that act. This, like many other cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and...contract must operate against the adventurers and in favor of the public, and the plaintiffs can claim nothing tbat is not clearly given them by the act."... | |
 | 1898 - 1020 pàgines
...privileges by the public to a private corporation, and in a matter where the public interest is concerned; and the rule of construction in all such cases is...the terms of the contract must. operate against the corporation, and in favor of the public, and the corporation can claim nothing but what is clearly... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1897 - 712 pàgines
...toll is derived entirely from the act, and is to be considered as if there was a bargain between them and the public, the terms of which are expressed in the statute; and the rule of construction is, that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the company and in favor of... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 1160 pàgines
...privileges by the public, to a private corporation, and in a matter where the public interest is concerned; and the rule of construction in all such cases is now fully established to be this: "Thai any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the corporation, and in favor... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1883 - 1168 pàgines
...public, the terms of which ire expressed in the act of incorporation ; and the rule of construction is, that any ambiguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the corporation, and in favor of the public. The corporation, therefore, can claim nothing which is not... | |
 | Mississippi. Supreme Court - 1901 - 1178 pàgines
...consequence must be," etc. In Richmond Railroad Co. v. Louixa Railroad Co., 13 How. (US), 81, it was said: "The rule of construction in all such cases is now fully established to be this, ' tiiat any am biguity in the terms of the contract must operate against the corporation and in favor... | |
 | Myres S Mac Dougal, William Michael Reisman - 1985 - 490 pàgines
...was held not to foreclose the State from later authorizing construction of a competing, free bridge. "[A]ny ambiguity in the terms of the contract, must...against the adventurers, and in favour of the public." 224 Another avoidance technique lay in the established law of municipal corporations to the effect... | |
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Wheely and others, the court say, "the canal having been made under an Act of Parliament, the rights of the plaintiffs are derived entirely from that Act. This, like many other cases, is a bargain between a company of adventurers and the public, the terms... 
