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Outcome n/a Tax Law 1851

Bond v. Brown

Joshua B. Bond, Administrator of Mary Ann Cade, Plaintiff in error, v. James Brown. By the Louisiana practice, if neither party claims a trial hy jury, the whole case is ' decided hy the court; matters of fact as well as of law. Where, upon

53 U.S. 254 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Employment Law 1851

United States v. Wilkinson

The United States, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Joseph B. Wilkinson, Christopher Roselius, John L. Lewis, Louis Bringier, Mandeville Marigny, and John R. Grymes. Where the hill of exceptions purported to have been taken at April term, 1848, but

53 U.S. 246 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1851

Lyman v. President of the Bank of the United States

Wyllys Lyman, George P. Marsh, John Peck, and John H. Peck, Plaintiffs in Error, v. The President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States. Whore persons were indebted to a bank and gave their promissory notes for the amount

53 U.S. 225 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Estate Planning & Probate 1851

United States v. Moore

The United States, Appellants, v. Michael Moore. An historical account given as to what officer in Louisiana possessed the power to grant part of the king’s domain. In September, 1797, Morales, who was intendant, had not the power. And a re

53 U.S. 209 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1851

Erwin v. Parham

Andrew Erwin, Appellant, v. William S. Parham, James Dick, and Henry R. W. Hill. Where a bill in chancery states that, at an execution sale, which was a'ieged to have been open and fair, the complainant purchased, for the sum of $600, certa

53 U.S. 197 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Bankruptcy & Debt 1851

Wilbur v. Almy

Peleg Wilbur, appellant, v. Samson Almy. Where there were two trustees of the property of insolvents, and one of them made an assignment, but the other neither joined in it nor assented to it afterwards, the assignment was void. And in the

53 U.S. 180 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1851

Bein v. Heath

Mary Bein, and Richard Bein, her Husband, G. S. Hawkins, and James M’Masters, Plaintiffs in error, v. Mary Heath. The proper condition of an injunction-bond is “ to answer all damages which the defendant may sustain in consequence of the in

53 U.S. 168 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1851

Grand Gulf Railroad & Banking Co. v. Marshall

The Grand Gulf Railroad and Banking Company, and Alfred Ingraham and George Read, Assignees of said Company, Intervenors, Plaintiffs in Error, v. John R. Marshall. In order to bring a case within the reviewing po-vyer of this court, as pres

53 U.S. 165 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1851

Ives v. Merchants Bank

Moses B. Ives, Plaintiff in error, v. The Merchants Bank of Boston. The surety for the appellants from a decree in admiralty gave bond to pay all costs and damages which might be adjudged by this court. This court having affirmed the decree

53 U.S. 159 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1851

Russell v. Southard

Gilbert C. Russell, Appellant, v. Daniel R. Southard, Samuel D. Tompkins, and William C. Bullett and William H. Pope, Administrators of James Burks, deceased, William L. Thompson, Guardian to James Burks, Samuel Burks, Charles Burks, and Na

53 U.S. 139 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1851

Dorsey v. Packwood

Greenberry Dorsey, Complainant and Appellant, v. Samuel Packwood. An agreement, whereby the purchaser of a plantation “bound himself to transfer to his son-in-law one half of the plantation, slaves, cattle, and stock, as soon as the son-in-

53 U.S. 126 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Dismissed Bankruptcy & Debt 1851

Williams v. Oliver

Nathaniel Williams, as permanent Trustee for the Creditors of John Gooding, an Insolvent Debtor, v. Charles Oliver, Robert M. Gibbes, and Thomas Oliver, Executors of Robert Oliver, and John Glenn and David M. Perrine, Trustees. The decision

53 U.S. 125 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1851

Williams v. Oliver

Nathaniel Williams, as permanent Trustee for the Creditors of James Williams, an Insolvent Debtor, Plaintiff in error, v. Charles Oliver, Robert M. Gibbes, and Thomas Oliver, Executors of Robert Oliver, and John Glenn, and David M. Perine,

53 U.S. 111 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Bankruptcy & Debt 1851

Neilson v. Lagow

Hall Neilson, (United States) Plaintiff in error, v. Clark B. Lagow, David H. Lagow, and Elizabeth S. Lagow, Children and Devisees of Wilson Lagow, deceased. The act of Congress, passed on 1st May, 1820, (3 Stat. at Targe, 568,) enacts, “ T

53 U.S. 98 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Tax Law 1851

United States v. Bromley

The United States, Plaintiffs, in error, v. Daniel H. Bromley. The act of Congress passed on the 3d of March, 1845, (5 Stat. at Large, 736, ) forbids the transportation of letters, packages, or other mailable matter, except such, as may hav

53 U.S. 88 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1851

Harris v. Runnels

John L. Harris, surviving partner of Rowan and Harris, v. Hiram G. Runnels. "Where a defendant, when sued upon a note, set up, as a defence, that the note was given for an illegal consideration,' the whole statute must be examined in order

53 U.S. 79 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1851

Lessieur v. Price

Godfrey Lessieur, Abram Augustine and Mary W. his Wife, Thomas H. Dawson, Richard J. Watson and Sarah his Wife, and Palmelia E. Dawson, Laura A. Dawson and George W. Dawson, Infants, by Thomas H. Dawson their Guardian, Plaintiffs in Error,

53 U.S. 59 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1851

President of the Farmers' Bank v. Groves

The President, Directors, and Company of the Farmers’ Bank of Virginia, Appellants, v. Horace H. Groves, Administrator of Moses Groves, Deceased. The principles of law decided in this case are so dependent upon the facts that a succinct sta

53 U.S. 51 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1851

de Montault v. United States

Auguste de Montault, Augustine Rene Therese Montault by her next friend Louis Montault and William Roger de la Chouquais, husband of the said Augustine, Louis Montault, Bernard Dautierre, Valerie Dautierre, Eleanor Dautierre by her next fri

53 U.S. 47 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1851

Parks v. Turner

George W. Parks, Plaintiff in Error, v. Sumpter Turner and Henry Renshaw, trading under the commercial firm of Turner & Renshaw. la Louisiana, the Supreme Court of the State reviews the questions of fact as well as of law which are brought

53 U.S. 39 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1851

Thredgill v. Pintard

Joseph P. Thredgill, Administrator of Archibald Goodloe, deceased, Appellant, v. John M. Pintard. Where a settler upon -the public lands had a pre-emption right to them and sold them to a person who again sold them to a third party, the ori

53 U.S. 24 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1851

Smith v. Clark

Francis O. J. Smith, Appellant, v. Joseph W. Clark, et al. Where a motion is made to docket and- dismiss a case under the 43d rule of this court, the certificate of the clerk of the court below, upon which the motion is founded, must state

53 U.S. 21 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1851

Binns v. Lawrence

William Binns and C. Stockton Halstead, Plaintiffs, v. Cornelius W. Lawrence. The Tariff Act, passed in 1846, (9 Stat. at Large, p. 44,) enacted duties on glass, as follows, viz. “ Schedule B. Forty per centum ad valorem, Glass cut. “ Sched

53 U.S. 9 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1851

President of the Miners' Bank v. Iowa ex rel. District Prosecuting Attorney

The President, Directors, and Company of the Miners’ Bank of Dubuque, Plaintiffs in Error, v. The State of Iowa, on the Relation of the District Prosecuting Attorney. Where a bank was chartered and its charter repealed by the legislature of

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

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