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Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1849

Peck v. Jenness

Philip Peck and William Bellows, Copartners, trading under the Firm of Philip Peck and Company, Plaintiffs in error, v. John S. Jenness, John Gage, and John E. Lyon, trading under the Name and Firm of Jenness, Gage, and Company, Defendants

48 U.S. 612 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1849

Hugg v. Augusta Insurance & Banking Co.

Jacob Hugg and John M. Bandel, Plaintiffs, v. The Augusta Insurance and Banking Company of the City of Augusta. In an insurance upon freight, there is no total loss of a memorandum article as long as the goods have not lost their.original c

48 U.S. 595 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1849

Kennedy's Executors v. Lessee of Hunt

Joshua Kennedy’s Executors et al., Plaintiffs in error, v. Lessee of Jonathan Hunt, John Hagan et al., Defendants in error. Forbes and Company obtained a grant of land in 1807 from Morales, Intendant-General uijder the Spanish government, w

48 U.S. 586 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1849

Tyler v. Hand

John Tyler, who is a Citizen of Virginia, President of the United States, and Successor in Office of Martin Van Buren, and Trustee for the Use of the Orphan Children provided for in. the Nineteenth Article of the Treaty with the Choctaws, o

48 U.S. 573 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Personal Injury 1849

Smith v. Turner

George Smith, Plaintiff in error, v. William Turner, Health-Commissioner of the Port of New York. James Norris, Plaintiff in error, v. The City of Boston. Statutes of the States of New York and Massachusetts, imposing taxes upon alien passe

48 U.S. 283 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1849

Crawford v. Branch Bank of Alabama at Mobile

William Crawford and David Files, Plaintiffs in error, v. The Branch Bank of Alabama at Mobile. A statute of the State of Alabama, directing that promissory notes given to the cashier of a hank may be sued and collected in the name of the b

48 U.S. 279 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1849

Bodley v. Goodrich

William S. Bodley and Thomas E. Robbins, Appellants, v. William M. Goodrich. The Commercial and Railroad Bank of Vicksburg assigned all its property to trustees, reciting that “ the embarrassed situation of the bank and the present inabilit

48 U.S. 276 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Bankruptcy & Debt 1849

Mace v. Wells

Timothy L. Mace, Plaintiff in error, v. Jared Wells. By the fifth section of the United States Bankrupt Act (5 Stat. at Large, 444), the surety upon a promissory note had a right to prove the demand against the maker, who became a bankrupt,

48 U.S. 272 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1849

McArthur's Heirs v. Dun's Heirs

Duncan McArthur’s Heirs, Complainants, v. Walter Dun’s Heirs. The proviso in the second section of the act passed on the 1st of March, 1823 (3 .Statutes at Large, 773), entitled, “An act for extending the time for locating • Virginia milita

48 U.S. 262 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1849

Matheson v. Branch Bank of Mobile

Maria Matheson, John Darrington, Robert D. James, Billups Gayle, John Gayle, and Edward M. Ware, Plaintiffs in error, v. The Branch of the Bank of the State of Alabama at Mobile, Defendants. Where the highest court of a State affirmed the j

48 U.S. 260 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1849

Wagner v. Baird

Peter K. Wagner, and Sidonia Pierce Wagner, his Wife, John Lawson Lewis, Louisa Maria Lewis, Theodore Lewis, Eliza Cornelia Lewis, Alfred. J. Lewis, John Hampden Lewis, Algernon Sidney Lewis, George Washington Lewis, and Benjamin Franklin L

48 U.S. 234 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1849

McLaughlin v. Bank of Potomac

Bridget McLaughlin, Appellant, v. The Bank of Potomac and others. Where an issue is sent by a court of equity to be tried by a jury in a court of law, and exceptions are taken during the progress of the trial at law, these exceptions must b

48 U.S. 220 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1849

Smith v. Kernochen

Jennet Smith, Calvin S. Powe, and Thomas A. Powe, Plaintiffs in error, v. Joseph Kernochen. When a mortgagor and mortgagee are citizens of the same State, and the mortgagee assigns the mortgage to a citizen of another State for the purpose

48 U.S. 198 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1849

United States v. City of Chicago

The United States, Complainants, v. The City of Chicago. Although the motion under argument in the Circuit Court was addressed to its discretion, yet if the questions which arose and upon which the judges differed involved the right of the

48 U.S. 185 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1849

Erwin v. Lowry

James Erwin, Plaintiff in error, v. Alfred J. Lowry, Curator of Alexander McNeill, deceased. Where a petition for the seizure and sale of the mortgaged property of a deceased person was filed, in the Circuit Court of the United States for L

48 U.S. 172 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1849

Fourniquet v. Perkins

Edward P. Fourniquet and Harriet Jane Fourniquet, his Wife, Appellants, v. John Perkins. The jurisdiction of courts of probate in Louisiana is confined to cases which seek an account and settlement of effects presumed to be held by the repr

48 U.S. 160 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Intellectual Property 1849

Patton v. Taylor

Hugh M. Patton, Administrator, and Hugh M. Patton and others, Heirs of Robert Patton, deceased, Appellants, v. James Taylor, Administrator, and James Taylor, John W. Tibbatts and Ann W. his Wife, George T. Williamson and Jane M. his Wife, a

48 U.S. 132 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1849

Wilkes v. Dinsman

Charles Wilkes, Plaintiff in error, v. Samuel Dinsman. In a suit brought by a marine against the commanding officer of a squadron, in • which the marine alleged that he was illegally detained on board after the expiration of his term of enl

48 U.S. 89 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Civil Rights 1849

Luther v. Borden

Martin Luther, Plaintiff in error, v. Luther M. Borden et al. Defendants in error. Rachel Luther, Complainant, v. Luther M. Borden et al., Defendants. At the period of the American Revolution, Rhode Island did not, like the othei States, ad

48 U.S. 1 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion