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Show DECISIONS OFJOURT Supreme Tribunal Upholds Up-holds Union Pacific Right-of-Way Suit Washington. Feb 27, What the supremo su-premo court did yesterday-Decided yesterday-Decided William A Ensign and his son. Charles Ensign of Pittsburg, must Bene their terms of ono year In the Allegheny county penitentiary for violating the Pennsylvania banking bank-ing laws by receiving deposits when they knew they wore insolvent. The elder Ensign Is more than 8v veavs old. affirmed the liability of railroads for damages for the death of postal employes riding on passes when not ion duty in the case of Mrs. Mary R. Schuyler of Oakland, CaK, .who was awarded damages for the death of her husband, who was killed In a wreck Ion the Southern Pacific between Lu-cin Lu-cin and Gartney, ("tab. Decided In faor of Portland. Ore. in its suit to prevent the Southern Pacific rallwav from operating trains in Fourth street that city Sustains Title. Affirmed the decision of the Oklahoma Okla-homa court sustaining; the title of Minerva Stuart to a lot in the town of Alllssaw, Okla. which was claimed by Charles L Ross. Affirmed the decision of the supreme su-preme court of Tennessee upholding thp npht of Anna Snyder to collect insurance on the death of her bus-baioi bus-baioi from the supreme ruling of the I Fraternal Order of the Mvstic Circle Fpheld the right of the state of Illinois to collect personal property tax on grain passing through eleva-I eleva-I tore at Chicago, but designed for Shipping to other stales in the case of E R Bacon of Chicago, doing business busi-ness as the Wabash elevator, against the state. Upheld the constitutionality of the At Kansas statute requiring railroads, under penalty, to supplv cars within a limited time in the case of John E. Hempton nnd the railroad commission of Arkansas against the St. Ixmis Iron Mountain X- Southern railroad. The court rejected the argument that the law interferes with Interstate commerce Sustained the sentence of five ye:.rs in the federal penitentiary -and a tine of $6000 Imposed on lister T Partel of South Dakota for mailinc i obscene letters at Sioux Falls to a 1 young woman in Wisconsin. Gave title to the government to 160,975 acres ot land in the stat of Washington claimed bv the Northern i Pari I ic Railroad company and others I'pheld the right of the I'nlon Pa-cillc Pa-cillc railroad to a 400-foot right of w;.y alleged to have been given it in an original grant, in the suit of Thomas (" Stuart and Charles A Murray against the railroad Most of the land involved lies in Colorado Denied the validity of the ordinance of the city of Los Anueles of July 2S, 1 1911, fixing the rates for telephone service in the case of the Home Tele- i phone ft Telegraph company against : the city. Decided the government of Porto Rice cannot bo sued without its consent con-sent in the ease of Manuel Rosaly y Castello against the government of Porto Rico for alleged taking of prop-ert prop-ert without compensation Denied the rights of the states to enforce demurrage laws affecting In-' In-' terstate shipments, in the case of the 1st. Louis & Southern railroad against E. H. Edward of Conway, Ark. |