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Outcome n/a 1866

Jones v. La Vallette

Jones v. La Vallette. A judgment in the Circuit Court of Louisiana in the ordinary action by petition and summons upon a promissory note cannot be brought into this court by appeal. 'It must come here, if at all, on writ of error. A judgmen

72 U.S. 579 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

The Pearl

The Pearl. A British vessel .captured during the rebellion and our blockade of the Southern coast, by an American war steamer, on her way from England to Nassau, N. P., condemned as intending^ run the blockade; Nassau being a port which, th

72 U.S. 574 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1866

Goodrich v. The City

Goodrich v. The City. 1. Where a matter is directly in issue and adjudged in a court of common law, that judgment may bo éet up as.an estoppel in a court of admiralty. 2. Where an action is brought in a State court against a city for its ne

72 U.S. 566 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1866

United States v. Commissioner

United States v. The Commissioner. A mandamus will not be granted to compel the performance of an office, such as the issuing of a patent for land, in a case where numerous questions of law and fact arise, some of them depending upon circum

72 U.S. 563 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1866

The Bird of Paradise

The Bird of Paradise. 1. Ship-owners, as a general rule, have a lien upon the cargo for the freight, and consequently may retain the goods after the arrival of the ship at the port of destination until the payment is made. Presumption is in

72 U.S. 545 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1866

Insurance Co. v. Ritchie

Insurance Company v. Ritchie. The jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts in original suits between citizens of the same State, in internal revenue cases, conferred or made clear by the act of June 30, 1864, “to provide internal revenue,” &c. (1

72 U.S. 541 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1866

United States v. Pico

United States v. Pico. 1. When, in Mexican, grants, boundaries are given, and a limitation upon the quantity embraced within the boundaries is intended, words expressing such intention are generally used. In their absence the extent of the

72 U.S. 536 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1866

The Sir William Peel

The Sir William Peel. 1. Regularly, in cases of prize, no evidence is admissible on the first hearing, except that which comes from the ship, either in the papers or the testimony of persons found on board. 2. If upon this evidence the case

72 U.S. 517 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1866

Insurance Co. v. Chase

Insurance Company v. Chase. One of five trustees of a church edifice, being the agent of an Insurance Company, accepted a risk in it from another of the trustees to whom the church was indebted, the policy being in the individual name of th

72 U.S. 509 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1866

Hansbrough v. Peck

Hansbrough v. Peck. 1. Where in part performance of an agreement a party has advanced money, or done an act, and then stops short and refuses to proceed to its conclusion, the other party being ready and willing to proceed and fulfil all hi

72 U.S. 497 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1866

The Eddy

The Eddy. 1. Contracts of affreightment are maritime contracts over which the courts of admiralty have jurisdiction. Either party may enforce his lien by a proceeding in rem in the District Court. 2. In the absence of an agreement to the co

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

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1866

Pervear v. Commonwealth

Pervear v. The Commonwealth. 1. A license from the Federal government, under the internal revenue acts of Congress, is no bar to an indictment under a State law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors. The License Tax Cases, supra, p.

72 U.S. 475 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1866

United States v. Vassar

License Tax Cases. United States v. Vassar. “ v. Schureman. “ v. Green. “ v. Beatty. “ v. Shelly. “ v. Bowen. “ v. Swain. “ v. Craft. “ v. Craft. 1. Licenses under the act of June 30, 1864, -‘to provide internal revenue to support the gover

72 U.S. 462 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1866

Serrano v. United States

Serrano v. United States. Long-continued and undisturbed possession of land in California, whilst that country belonged to Spain or Mexico, under a simple permission to occupy it from a priest of an adjoining mission, or a local military co

72 U.S. 451 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1866

United States v. Armijo

United States v. Armijo et al. 1. The motives which may actuate parties intervening in a California land case to appeal, or the fact that an inconsiderable interest in tho grant is represented by them, can have no influence -upon the decisi

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

Remanded Bankruptcy & Debt 1866

Nichols v. Levy

Nichols v. Levy. 1. Where a State court, — interpreting a statute of its own State, which gave such court jurisdiction to subject legal and equitable interests in real estáte to the claim of creditors, — decided that the statute embraced tr

72 U.S. 433 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1866

De Groot v. United States

De Groot v. United States. 1. In bringing appeals to this court from the Court of Claims, the record must be prepared strictly according to the General Kales announced on the subject of that class of appeals at December Term, 1865, and prin

72 U.S. 419 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Civil Rights 1866

Ewing v. City of St. Louis

Ewing v. City of St. Louis. 1. With the proceedings and determinations of inferior boards or tribunals of special jurisdiction, courts of equity will not interfere, unless it should become nécessary to prevent a multiplicity of suits or irr

72 U.S. 413 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1866

The William Bagaley

The William Bagaley. 1 Personal property left in a hostile country by an owner who abandons such country in order to go to the other belligerent, and so to return to his proper allegiance and soil, becomes, qnless an effort is made with pro

72 U.S. 377 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1866

The Hampton

The Hampton. 1. In proceedings in prize, and under principles of international law, mortgages on vessels captured jure belli, are to be treated only as lions, subject to being overridden by the capture, not as jura in re, capable of an enfo

72 U.S. 372 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

The Gray Jacket

The Gray Jacket (motion.) As a general rule, where the United States is a party to a cause and is represented by the Attorney-General, or the Assistant Attorney-General, or by special counsel employed by the Attorney-General, no counsel can

72 U.S. 370 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1866

The Gray Jacket

The Gray Jacket. MERITS.) 1. The proclamation of President Lincoln made December 8th, 1863, granting to all persons (with certain exceptions) who had participated in the then existing rebellion, a full pardon, with restoration of all rights

72 U.S. 342 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

Francis v. United States

Francis v. United States. Although, under the act of 6th August, 1861, “to confiscate property used for insurrectionary purposes,” an informer may file an information along with the Attorney-General, and so make the proceeding enure, under

72 U.S. 338 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1866

Townsend v. Greeley

Townsend et al. v. Greeley. 1. The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo between the United States and Mexico does not divest the pueblo, existing at the site of the city of San Francisco, of any rights of property or alter the character of the inter

72 U.S. 326 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion