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Turrill v. Michigan Southern
Turrill v. The Michigan Southern, &c., Railroad Company. 1. Patents for inventions are not to he treated as mere monopolies, and therefore as odious in the law, hut are to receive a liberal construction, and under-a fair application of the
Homer v. The Collector
Homer v. The Collector. Under tibe Tariff Act of 1846, as amended by the Tariff Act of 1857, almonds are subject to a duty of 30 p. c. ad valorem,. Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts, the case being thus: The Tarif
Insurance Companies v. Wright
The Insurance Companies v. Wright. 1. Where a written contract is susceptible on its face of a construction that is “reasonable,” resort cannot be had to evidence of custom or usage to explain its language. And this general rule of evidence
United States v. Halleck
United States v. Halleck et al. 1. Where a decree of the Board of Commissioners, created under the act of March 8d, 1851, to ascertain and settle private land claims in the State of California, confirming a claim to a tract of land under a
Niswanger v. Saunders
Niswanger v. Saunders. J. The State of Virginia issued, in 1784, a warrant for a soldier of the Con tinental establishment, which was entered in her own borders south of the Ohio. The land having been surveyed, a patent issued; everything p
United States v. Yorba
United States v. Yorba. 1. Where the usual preliminary proceedings to the issue of a Mexican grant in colonization are preserved in the archives of the former government, the proof of the signatures of the grantor and attesting secretary wi
Bronson & Soutter v. La Crosse & Milwaukee Railroad
Bronson & Soutter, Complainants and Appellants, v. The La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Co.; The Milwaukee and Minnesota Railroad Co., Chamberlain et al. [Appeal.] Also, The Milwaukee and Minnesota Railroad Co., Appellants, v. Soutter, who
United States v. Moreno
United States v. Moreno. 1. Where there are no subscribing witnesses to a Mexican grant in colonization, the signature of the governor who executed the grant, and of the secretary who attested it, may be proved by any one acquainted with th
Woods v. Freeman
Woods v. Freeman. A judgment in Illinois for taxes is fatally defective if it does not in terms or by some mark indicating money, such as $ or cts., show the amount, in money, of the tax for which it was rendered. Numerals merely, that is t
Meyer v. City of Muscatine
Meyer v. The City of Muscatine. X. tVhere a charter gives a city power to borrow money for any object in its discretion, and a statute of the State where the city is enacted that “bonds of any city” issued to railroad companies “may have in
Lasigi v. The Collector
Lasigi et al. v. The Collector. 1. "While goods remain in the ownership of the importer, the collector of the customs has a reasonable time to fix their true dutiable value; and his right to reappraise them under the act of May 28, 1830, in
Hardy v. Johnson
Hardy v. Johnson. 1. By the law of California, one tenant in common of real property can sue in ejectment, and recover the demanded premises entire as against all parties, except his co-tenants, and persons holding under them. But the judgm
Schuchardt v. Allens
Schuchardt v. Allens. 1. If no exception have been taken below to a question asked on trial, no objection can be made to it here. 2. If the answer to a question asked may tend to prove the matters alleged in the narr. — if it be a link in t
United States v. Auguisola
United States v. Auguisola. Where no suspicion, from the absence of the usual preliminary documentary evidence in the archives of the former government, arises as to the genuineness of a Mexican grant produced, the general rule is, that obj
Bloomer v. Millinger
Bloomer v. Millinger. 1. A grant of a right by a patentee to make and use, and vend to others to be used, a patented machine, within a term for which it has been granted, will give the purchaser of machines from such grantee the right to us
Lee v. Watson
Lee et al. v. Watson. When, to authorize the re-examination of a final judgment of the Circuit Court, the matter in dispute must exceed the sum or value of $2000, that amount — if the action be upon a money demand and the general’ issue be
Baker v. Gee
Baker v. Gee. 1. Under the act of Congress of June 10,1852, giving to the State of Missouri certain lands for railroad purposes, and the act of that State of September 20, 1852, accepting them and making provision in regard to them, the loc
Jones v. Green
Jones v. Green et al. A bill in equity will not lie on behalf of judgment creditors to subject real property of their debtor, held by a third party upon a secret trust for him, to the satisfaction of their judgment, until a fruitless attemp
United States v. Johnson
United States v. Johnson. 1 Objections to Mexican grants ought not to be taken as if the case was pending on a writ of error, with a bill of exceptions to the admission of every item of testimony offered and received below. 2. "When there i
Godfrey v. Eames
Godfrey v. Eames. If an applicant for a patent choose to withdraw his application for a patent, intending, at the time of such withdrawal, to file a new petition, and he accordingly does so, the two petitions are to he considered as parts o
United States v. D'Aguirre
United States v. D’Aguirre. Where from a tract of land known by a particular name grants of two parcels had been made, and a petition for a grant of the surplus remaining was presented to the Governor of the Department of California, and .t
Miller v. Tiffany
Miller v. Tiffany. In an action for the price of goods which the purchaser by his own agerts examined and selected, and which he himself afterwards received and kept without objection, it is no defence that the price as agreed on was above
Van Hostrup v. Madison City
Van Hostrup v. Madison City. t. An authority to a city to take stock in any chartered company for making “ a road "or roads to said city,” authorizes taking stock in a road between other cities or towns, from the nearest of which to the cit
Malarin v. United States
Malarin v. United States. When the validity of a Mexican grant has been affirmed by a decree of the District Court, and an appeal is taken by the claimant seeking a modification of the decree as to the extent of land embraced by the grant,
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