California v. San Pablo & Tulare Railroad

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there was no cause of action because the plaintiff had obtained everything that it could recover
• finding that the dispute was resolved by “the offer to pay all [] sums, and the deposit of money in a bank, which by a statute of the state have the same effect as actual payment and receipt of the money” (emphases added)
• stating “there can be no doubt that this writ of error must be dismissed, because the cause of action has ceased to exist”
• finding that the 7 dispute was resolved by ʺthe offer to pay all [] sums, and the deposit of money in 8 a bank, which by a statute of the state have the same effect as actual payment and 9 receipt of the moneyʺ (emphases added)
• “The duty of this court, as of every judicial tribunal, is limited to determining rights of persons . . . which are actually controverted in the particular case before it.”
• “The duty of this court, as of every judicial tribunal, is limited to determining rights of persons . . . which are actually controverted in the particular case before it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).