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Outcome n/a Family Law 1864

Gordon v. United States

GORDON v. UNITED STATES. APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP CLAIMS. Decided December Term, 1864. This cause was submitted on the 18th December, 1863. On the 4th of April, 1864, the court ordered it to be argued on the second day of the following Dece

117 U.S. 697 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1864

Ex parte Fleming

Ex parte Fleming. A party asking this coürt for a mandamus to an inferior court to make a rule on one of its ministerial officers, as the marshal, must show clearly his interest in the matter which he presents as' the ground of his applicat

69 U.S. 759 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1864

Lowber v. Bangs

Lowber v. Bangs. A stipulation in a charter-party that the chartered vessel, then in distant seas, would proceed from one port named (where it was expected that she would he) to another port named (where the charterer meant to load her), “w

69 U.S. 728 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Civil Rights 1864

Fossat Case

The Fossat or Quicksilver Mine Case. 1. An appeal lies to this court from a decree of the District Court for California, in a proceeding under the act of 14th of June, 1860 (12 Sta- ■ tutes at Large, 33), commonly called the Survey Law. 2.

69 U.S. 649 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1864

Minnesota Co. v. St. Paul Co.

Minnesota Company v. St. Paul Company. 1. Where a bill in equity is necessary to have a construction of the orders, decrees, and acts made or done by a Federal court, the bill is properly filed in such Federal court as distinguished from an

69 U.S. 609 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Intellectual Property 1864

Hogan v. Page

Hogan v. Page. 1. A patent certificate, or patent issued, or confirmation made to an original grantee or Ms “legal representatives,” embraces representatives of such .grantee by contract, as well as by operation of law; leaving the question

69 U.S. 605 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1864

Read v. Bowman

Read v. Bowman. 1. A declaration that a certain improvement, containing in reality one principal and three distinct minor improvements, was patented on a day named, is supported by evidence that four patents — reissues—were subsequently gra

69 U.S. 591 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1864

United States v. Pacheco

United States v. Pacheco. 1. When the boundaries designated in a decree of the District Court, confirming a claim to land under a Mexican grant in California, embrace a greater tract than the quantity confirmed, the grantees have the right

69 U.S. 587 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1864

Sutter Case

The Sutter Case. V. On the 18th of June, 1841, Juan B. Alvarado, then Governor of California, issued to John A. Sutter, for himself and colonists, a grant ' of land designated as New Helvetia, of the extent of eleven squaro leagues, as exhi

69 U.S. 562 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1864

Gordon v. United States

Gordon v. United States. M o appeal lies to this court from the Court of Claims.

69 U.S. 561 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Insurance Law 1864

The Morning Light

The Morning Light. 1. A vessel astern of another cannot be held in fault for not complying with the rule which obliges the rear vessel to' keep out of the way of one ahead, when it is so darK that the latter vessel cannot be seen by the for

69 U.S. 550 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1864

The Ann Caroline

The Ann Caroline. 1. The ordinary and settled rule of navigation, that when two vessels are approaching each other on opposite tacks, hoth having the wind free, the one on the larboard side shall give way and pass to the right, does not app

69 U.S. 538 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1864

United States v. Stone

United States v. Stone. 1. The United States may properly proceed by bill in equity to have a judicial decree of nullity and an order of cancellation of a patent issued by itself, ignorantly or in mistake, for lands reserved from sale by la

69 U.S. 525 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1864

Milwaukie & Minnesota Railroad v. Soutter

Milwaukie and Minnesota Railroad Company and Fleming, Appellants, v. Soutter, Survivor. 1. Tnough a court below is bound to follow the instructions given to it by a mandate from this, yet where a mandate has plainly been framed, as regards

69 U.S. 510 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1864

Levy Court v. Coroner

Levy Court v. Coroner. 1. The Levy Court of Washington County, in the District of Columbia, if not a corporation in the full sense of the term, is a quasi corporation; and can sue and be sued in regard to any matter in which, by law, it has

69 U.S. 501 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1864

Kutter v. Smith

Kutter v. Smith. 1. The law imposes no obligations on a landlord to pay the tenant for buildings erected on demised premises. The innovation on the common law rule that all buildings become part of the freehold, has extended no further than

69 U.S. 491 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1864

The Andromeda

The Andromeda. 1 A vessel and cargo condemned as enemy property, under circumstances of suspicion, — spoliation of papers in tlic moment of capture being one of them as regarded the cargo, and a former enemy owner remaining in possession as

69 U.S. 481 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Immigration Law 1864

The Baigorry

The Baigorry. 1. The blockade of the coast of Louisiana, as established there, as on the rest of the coast of the Southern States generally, by President Lincoln’s proclamation of 19th April, 1861; was not terminated by the capture of the f

69 U.S. 474 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1864

Steamship Co. v. Joliffe

Steamship Company v. Joliffe. 1. When a right has arisen upon a contract, or a transaction .in the nature of a contract authorized by statute, and has been so far perfected thdt nothing remains to be done by the party asserting it, the repe

69 U.S. 450 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1864

United States v. Billing

United States v. Billing. 1. The doctrine of United. States v. Halleck (1 Wallace, 439), that the decrees of the District Court on California land surveys under the acts of Congress are final, not only as to the questions of title, hut as t

69 U.S. 444 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1864

Milwaukie & Minnesota Railroad v. Soutter

Milwaukie and Minnesota Railroad Company and Fleming, Appellants, v. Soutter, Survivor. An order of the Circuit Court, on a hill to foreclose a mortgage, ascertaining — in intended execution of a mandate from this court — the amount of inte

69 U.S. 440 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Intellectual Property 1864

Tobey v. Leonards

Tobey v. Leonards. 1. Positive statements in an answer to a bill inequity — tbe answer being responsive to tbe bill — are not to be overcome, except by more testimony than that of one witness; but by such superior testimony they may be over

69 U.S. 423 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Civil Rights 1864

Mrs. Alexander's Cotton

Mrs. Alexander’s Cotton. 1. The principle, that personal dispositions of the individual inhabitants of enemy territory as distinguished from those of the enemy people generally, cannot, in questions of capture, bo inquired into, applies in

69 U.S. 404 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1864

Albany Bridge Case

Albany Bridge Case.

69 U.S. 403 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion