Show recent decisions at law A statute inal cing it unlawful for tho owner of hogs to permit them to run at largo is held to bo an exercise of the police power which the legislature may delegate to the county court as the police court of a county ond no constitutional rights of citizens are violated by such a statute cause of action for personal injuries to a railroad employee in mexico although transitory is denied enforcement in texas in the case of mexican nat R go vs jackson fpx 31 L R A on the around that the statutes of the two counties are so materially different that the texas court cannot attempt to adjudicate the righta of the parties among the peculiar mexican awe governing the case ie the right to what ie called extraordinary indemnity in which the judge may deem proper considering the plaintiffs social and also the right to addition fl damages or a reduction irom the original recovery by subsequent judgments in case the condition of the party changes A statute imperatively requiring railroad companies to carry freights for the same rates charged by other companies for hauling between the same points no matter how much difference there may bo between the length of alie lines is held in state board of transportation vs sioux city W R co neb 31 L R A 47 to be an unconstitutional deprivation of property without duo process of law in the bame case it is held that the courts independently of a legislative establishment of rates cannot make between common camera such an arrangement as it thinks they ought to make tor themselves the equality of rights and privileges given to all men by the connecticut constitution is held in state vs conlon 65 conn L II 11 55 to be violated by a statute authorizing city officers to license such persons as they find proper persons to engage in a temporary or transient business for a fee not less than 1 nor more than and making such business alien unlicensed unlawful tho court says that the words temporary or transient business have no technical or legal meaning but are broad enough to include ordinary and lawful business in which all citizens have an equal right to engage the constitutional provision against impairing im the obligation of contracts was recently held in beverly vs bar nit 55 56 31 L R A 74 not to be violated in respect to preexisting pre existing mortgages by a statute changing the emedy on foreclosure by allowing the mortgagor to continue in possession for eighteen montha after the sale during the time for redemption this decision was made on rehearing and reversed the decision first rendered but it has now been reversed by the supreme court of the united states which holds that the change in the remedy amounts to cutting down the detate of the mortgagee from that of a fee simple to a remainder subject to a prior right of possession for eighteen months and therefore affects the substantial right as well as the remedy A detate statute requiring foreign building and loan associations to pay 2 per cent of annual gross receipts into the detate treasury as a condition ot doing business is sustained in southern biag fe L asso va norman ky 31 L R A 41 against the contention that it interferes with interstate commerce or denies to such foreign companies the equal protection of the laws even if the tax is not imposed as a condition precedent to the entrance of the corporation into the state the right of a corporation to the exclusive use of name aa against another organization using the same name is discussed in grand lodge A 0 U W vs graham iowa 31 L R A where it ie held that a seceding bady claiming to be the grand lodge of the ancient order of united workmen and which had become Incorporated wag not entitled to the nime as against atie unincorporated body which biad previously used the name even if the latter might be doing an unlawful busin cs especially ally when the insurance authorities of the state had acquiesced in the doing of such business and the corporation had failed to take action against it until of the old organization had become to old to get insurance elsewhere 0 the much disputed question 0 the right of an insolvent corporation to make preferences among creditors it is to be held in illinois steel co ve odonnell III 31 L R A that the directors and officers of the company can pay to secure corporate debts in good faith even though the result is to give some creditors credi tois a preference over othere and even if the pre berred creditors are relatives of one or more of the dir ectore and that securities given to directors for advances made in good faith when the corporation although in fact insolvent 1 doing a large business and the money is loaned to enable the company to go on the business are valid likewise security preferring certain creditors of an insolvent corporation is sustained in blair vs illinois steel co A notwithstanding the fact that directors had guaranteed the claims ec cured unless this was done for the benefit of the directors rather than of the creditors |