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Maryland Insurance v. Ruden's Administrator
THE MARYLAND INSURANCE COMPANY v. RUDEN’S ADMINISTRATOR. What is reasonable time for abandonment is a question for the jury to decide under the direction of a court. The operation of a concealment, on the polier, depends on its materiality
Sere & Laralde v. Pitot
SERE AND LARALDE v. PITOT AND OTHERS. A general assignee of the effects of an insolvent cannot sue in the federal courts, if his assignor could not have sued in those courts. The citizens of the. territory of Orleans may sue and be sued in
Hudson & Smith v. Guestier
HUDSON AND SMITH v. GUESTIER. The jurisdiction of the French courts as to seizured, is not confined to seizures made within two leagues of the coast. A seizure, beyond the limits of the territorial jurisdiction, for breach of a municipal re
Marine Insurance v. Hodgson
THE MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF ALEXANDRIA v. HODGSON. The refusal of an inferior court to allow a plea to be amended, or a new plea to be filed, or to grant a new trial, or to continue a case, cannot be assigned as error. After a cause is
Smith v. Maryland ex rel. Caroll & Maccubbin
SMITH v. THE STATE OF MARYLAND, AT THE INSTANCE AND FOR THE USE OF CARROLL AND MACCUBBIN. A writ of error lies to the highest court of a state, in A cáse where the question is •whether a con.fiscation under the law-of the «{Até was com•plet
Livingston & Gilchrist v. Maryland Insurance
LIVINGSTON AND GILCHRIST v. THE MARYLAND INSURANCE COMPANY. If the interest of one joint owner of a cargo be insured, and if that interest be neutral, it is no breach of the warranty of neutrality if the other joint owner, whose interest is
Fletcher v. Peck
FLETCHER v. PECK. It is not necessary that a breach of covenant be assigned in the very words of the covenant. It is sufficient if it show a substantial breach. If the breach of covenant assigned be, that the state had no authority to sell
Durousseau v. United States
DUROUSSEAU AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED STATES The appellants powers of the supreme court of the United are .S'" Ten by the conetitution f but they are limited and'regulated by the judicial act, and other acts passed by congress on the subject.
Chesapeake Insurance v. Stark
THE CHESAPEAKE INSURANCE COMPANY v. STARK. The agent who makes insurance for his principal, has authority to abandon whithout a formal letter of attorney. The informality of a deed of cession is unimportant, because, if the abandonment be u
Sheehy v. Mandeville & Jamesson
SHEEHY v. MANDEVILLE AND JAMESSON. A promissory note given and recerved for and in discharge of an open account is a bar to, an action upon the open account, altho’ the note be not paid. ERROR to the circuit court for the district of Columb
Finley v. Lynn
FINLEY v. LYNN. A bond, executed in pursuance of articles of agreement, may, in equity, be restrained by, those articles. A complainant in equity may have relief even against the admissions in his bill. ERROR to the circuit court for the di
Custiss v. Georgetown & Alexandria Turnpike Co.
CUSTISS v. THE GEORGETOWN AND ALEXANDRIA TURNPIKE COMPANY. An appeal lies to the supreme court from an order of the circuit court of the district of Columbia, quashing an inquisition in the nature of a writ ad quod dumnum. • The circuit “'“
Vasse v. Smith
VASSE v. SMITH. ' Infancy is a bar tó an action by an owner against his snpevcai-go instructions ■ hut not to an action of troivev for the goodsf ' Still, however, m-given in evióf trover, upon the ^eaofnot^guiig-n°toS show the nature of ^s
Slacum v. Pomery
SLACUM v. POMERY. In an' action by tbe endorsee against the endorsor of a foreign bill of exchange, the defendantis liable fordamages according to the law of the place where the bill was endorsed. The endorsement is a new and substantive co
United States v. Hall & Worth
THE UNITED STATES v. HALL AND WORTH. If a vessel be driven by sterss of weather to the West Indies, and the cargo there detained by the government of the place, this is such a casualty as comes within the exception of "dungere of the seas"
Kennedy v. Brent
KENNEDY v. BRENT. The marshal of the district of Columbia is bound to serve a subpoena in chancery as soon as he reasonably can; and the service of such subpoerna, in case of a chancery attachment in Virginia, will make the garnishee liable
Massie v. Watts
MASSIE v. WATTS. The practice in Kentucky to call a jury to ascertain the facts in chancery causesis incorrect. A suit in chancery buy one who has the prior equity against him who has the eldest patent is in its nature loacl, and if it be a
Lewis v. Harwood
LEWIS v. HARWOOD. A bond in an action upon which it would be necessary to assign breaches, and call in a jury to assess damages, is not assignable, under teh statute of Virginin. ERROR to the circuit court for the district of Virginia, in a
Campbell v. Gordon
CAMPBELL v. GORDON AND WIFE. A certificate by a competent court, that an alien has taken the oath prescribed by the act respecting naturalization, raises a presumption that the court was satisfied as to the moral character of the allien, an
M'Knight v. Craig's Administrator
M'KNIGHT v. CRAIG’S ADMINISTRATOR. In Virginia, if the defendant die after interioustory judgment and a writ of inquiry awarded his administrator, upon scired facius, can only plead what his intestate could have pleaded. ERROR-to the circui
King v. Delaware Insurance
ÍING v. THE DELAWARE INSURANCE COMPANY. ERROR to the circuit court for the district of Pennsylvania, in an action of covenant, upon a polipy of insurance upon the freight of the Venus from.Philadelphia, to the Isle of France. ' The vessel s
Maryland Insurance v. Woods
THE MARYLAND INSURANCE COMPANY v. WOODS. In an action upon a policy on property warranted neutral, "proof of which to be required in the United States only," a sentence of condemination in a foreign court of admiralty, upon the ground of br
Oneale v. Thornton
ONEALE v. THORNTON. The act of assembly of Maryland, which authorized the commissioners of the city of Washington to resell lots for default of payment by the first purchaser, contemplates a single resale only; and by that resale the power
Field v. Holland
FIELD AND OTHERS v. HOLLAND AND OTHERS. The report of auditors, appointed by consent of parties in a suit in equity, is not in the nature of an award by arbitrators, but may be set aside by the court, although neither fraud, corruption, par
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