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Remanded Civil Rights 1857

United States v. Fossat

The United States, Appellants, v. Charles Fossat. Where a petitioner files a claim to land in California before the board of commissioners created by Congress, the intervention of rival claimants is a practice not to be encouraged. Where th

61 U.S. 413 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1857

McCormick v. Talcott

Cyrus H. McCormick, Appellant, v. Waite Talcott, Ralph Emmerson, Jesse Blinn, and Sylvester Talcott, Survivors of John H. Manny. The reaping machines made by Manny do not infringe McCormick’s patent, either . as to the divider, the manner i

61 U.S. 402 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1857

People's Ferry Co. v. Beers

The People’s Ferry Company of Boston, Claimants of the Steamboat Jefferson, Appellants, v. Joseph Beers and David Warner, Assignees of B. C. Terry. The admiralty jurisdiction of the courts of the United States does not extend to cases where

61 U.S. 393 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1857

Silsby v. Foote

Horace C. Silsby, Washburn Race, Abel Downs, Henry Henion, and Edward Mynderse, Appellants, v. Elisha Foote. Foote’s patent declared good; for the combination of machinery used in “the application of the expansive and contracting power of a

61 U.S. 378 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1857

Gazzam v. Lessee of Phillips

Charles W. Gazzam, Plaintiff in Error, v. Lessee of Elam Phillips and Mary his wife, and Ashbey W. Etheridge. The décision of this court in the case of Brown v. Clements (3 How., 650) reviewed and' controlled. ' ... The quantity of land gra

61 U.S. 372 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Personal Injury 1857

Goodman v. Simonds

Timothy S. Goodman, Plaintiff in Error, v. John Simonds. Where an accepted and endorsed bill of-exchange was placed by the drawer as collateral security for his own debt in the hands of his creditor, and when the creditor came to sue the ac

61 U.S. 343 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1857

Jackson v. Steamboat Magnolia

Thomas Jackson, William Higdon, and Archibald Olds, owners of the Steamboat Wetumpka, Libellants and Appellants, v. The Steamboat Magnolia, her tackle, &c., William F. James, master, &c. The admiralty jurisdiction of the courts of the Unite

61 U.S. 296 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1857

Silsby v. Foote

Horace C. Silsby et al., Appellants, v. Elisha Foote. Where an appeal from a decree is taken within ten days from the rendition of the decree, it is in time to operate as a supersedeas; and so, also, if taken within ten days after the decre

61 U.S. 290 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1857

Mussina v. Cavazos

Ex parte in the matter of Jacob Mussina and Angela Garcia Lafon de Tarneva, et al. Appellants, v. Rafael Garcia Cavazos and wife, et al. A rule laid upon the district judge of the State of Texas, to show cause why a mandamus should not be i

61 U.S. 280 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1857

Spencer v. Lapsley

Eliphas Spencer, Plaintiff in Error, v. John W. Lapsley. The judge of the District Court of the United States in Texas had power to order the record of a suit in which he was interested to be transmitted to the Circuit Court of the United S

61 U.S. 264 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1857

United States v. De Pacheco

The United States, Appellant, v. Juana S. De Pacheco. The United States, Appellant, v. Samuel J. Hensley. The United States, Appellant, v. John Bidwell. The United States, Appellant, v. Antonio Sunot et al. As the act of Congress passed on

61 U.S. 261 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1857

Hemmenway v. Fisher

Augustus Hemmenway, Claimant of the Ship Independence, v. William B. Fisher. Where a judgment of the Circuit Court, sitting in admiralty, was affirmed here by a divided court, interest was not to be calculated upon the judgment. The eightee

61 U.S. 255 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1857

United States v. Breitling

The United States, Plaintiff in Error, v. Gotlieb Breitling. The Circuit Court of the United States in Alabama, by a general rule, adopted the practice of the State courts, which is regulated by a statute providing that no bill of exception

61 U.S. 252 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1857

White v. Burnley

Samuel A. White, William M. Cooke, Chambers Etler, John H. Baldwin, Henry J. Huck, as Administrator of Herman H. Rodgers, and in his own right, John P. O’Brien, Oliver H. Stapp, and Thomas Rooke, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Albert T. Burnley. I

61 U.S. 235 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1857

Covington Drawbridge Co. v. Shepherd

The Covington Drawbridge Company, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Alexander O. Shepherd, Elijah F. Gillan, James Davidson, Samuel McClure Samuel Peters, and George Willard. An averment, in pleading, that the Covington Drawbridge Company were citize

61 U.S. 227 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1857

McGavock v. Woodlief

John McGavock, Plaintiff in Error, v. Peter W. Woodlief. A broker who negotiates the sale of an estate is not entitled to his commission until he finds a purchaser in a situation and ready and willing to complete the purchase on the terms a

61 U.S. 221 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1857

Payne v. Niles

Jacob U. Payne, J. P. Harrison, and George W. Huntingdon, commercial partners, under the name and firm of Payne & Harrison, Intervenors, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Jonathan J. Niles, James M. Niles, Leander H. Corey, and Stephen Allen, partner

61 U.S. 219 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1857

Day v. Union India Rubber Co.

Horace H. Day, Appellant, v. The Union India Rubber Company. The party defendants in the present suit have as much right to manufacture various articles of India rubber under Chaffee’s patent, as the licensees in the case of Hartshorn v. Da

61 U.S. 216 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1857

Chaffee v. Hayward

Edwin M. Chaffee, Trustee of Horace H. Day, Plaintiff in Error, v. Nathaniel Hayward. Horace H. Day, Plaintiff in Error, v. Nathaniel Hayward. By the judiciary act of 1789, no civil suit shall be brought against an inhabitant of the United

61 U.S. 208 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1857

Carroll v. Dorsey

Jane Carroll, Maria C. Fitzhugh, et al., Devisees of Daniel Carroll of Duddington, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Nicholas Dorsey, Noah Dorsey, Achsah Dorsey, Tristam S. Dorsey, heirs at law of Alfred R. Dowson, deceased. Although an irregularity

61 U.S. 204 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1857

Dean v. Mason

William B. Dean, Appellant, v. Nathan Mason et al. In suits for the infringement of a patent right, the rule of dam.' es is the amount which the infringer actually realized in profits, not what he night have made hf reasonable diligence. Af

61 U.S. 198 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1857

Thompson v. Selden

Gilbert L. Thompson, Plaintiff in Error, v. William Selden, John Withers, Robert W. Latham, and Lawrence P. Bayne, doing business under the firm of Selden, Withers, & Company. The fifteenth section of the judiciary act of 1789 authorizes th

61 U.S. 194 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1857

Fisher v. Haldeman

Isaac M. Fisher, Appellant, v. John Haldeman, Jacob S. Haldeman, Richard J. Haldeman, and Robert J. Ross, Executors of Jacob Haldeman, deceased, and Thomas Chambers, Administrator de bonis non of Thomas Duncan, deceased. By the laws of Penn

61 U.S. 186 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1857

Leitensdorfer v. Webb

Eugene Leitensdorfer and Joab Houghton, Plaintiffs in Error, v. James J. Webb. When New Mexico was conquered by the United States, it was only the allegiance of the people that was changed; their relation to each other, and their-rights of

61 U.S. 176 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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