In the Matter of W---- M---- G

8 Cited authorities

  1. Caminetti v. United States

    242 U.S. 470 (1917)   Cited 1,916 times   1 Legal Analyses
    Holding that importation of a woman for immoral purposes may constitutionally be regulated even when it is not for material gain
  2. United States v. Cooper Corp.

    312 U.S. 600 (1941)   Cited 244 times
    Holding that a provision of the Sherman Act imposing criminal penalties on "person" could not "embrace the United States"
  3. Commr. of Immigration v. Gottlieb

    265 U.S. 310 (1924)   Cited 45 times
    In Commissioner of Immigration v. Gottlieb, 265 U.S. 310, 313, 44 S.Ct. 528, 68 L.Ed. 1031, the court said: "The case, as the evidence shows, is one of peculiar and distressing hardship, and it is not unnatural that any appropriate canon of construction should be laid hold of to justify a conclusion favorable to respondents.
  4. Drake v. Drake

    43 S.W.2d 556 (Mo. 1931)   Cited 38 times
    In Drake v. Drake, 1931, 328 Mo. 966, 43 S.W.2d 556, the plaintiff sought to be declared the owner in fee as an equitably adopted child.
  5. Coté v. Bachelder-Worcester Co.

    160 A. 101 (N.H. 1932)   Cited 31 times
    In Cote v. Bachelder-Worcester Company, 85 N.H. 444, 160 A. 101, 82 A.L.R. 1239, the employer contended that regard should be had for the fact that full time during a period of depression may be less than when business is good, and, also, that if in a given period an employee worked all the time there was work for him to do he worked full time.
  6. Purinton v. Jamrock

    195 Mass. 187 (Mass. 1907)   Cited 73 times
    In Purinton v. Jamrock (195 Mass. 187, 199; 80 N.E. 802, 805), where there was a conflict in regard to the religious education of the child between the mother and adopted parents, the court said: "The wishes of the parent as to the religious education and surroundings of the child are entitled to weight; if there is nothing to put in balance against them, ordinarily they will be decisive.
  7. State Tax Commission v. Allied Mortgage Companies

    175 Md. 357 (Md. 1938)   Cited 5 times

    [No. 26, October Term, 1938.] Decided November 16th, 1938. Taxation — Mortgage Corporation — What Constitutes. All private corporations are to be assessed for taxes under general laws, unless they are expressly exempt by law. p. 359 Words in a statute which are in common use are to be taken in their commonly understood signification, if there is nothing to indicate that they are intended to express a technical meaning, or that, if effect be given according to their ordinary and familiar sense, the

  8. McManus v. Red Salmon Canning Co.

    37 Cal.App. 133 (Cal. Ct. App. 1918)   Cited 9 times
    In McManus v. Red Salmon Canning Co., 37 Cal.App. 133, 136-137 [ 173 P. 1112], a California corporation hired one John McManus as a seaman and also to do shore work for it on a voyage to Alaska.