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Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1866

Dwyer v. Dunbar

Dwyer v. Dunbar. 1. A letter to a third person, appended to a deposition and professing to give an account of a particular transaction, but not sworn in the deposition to have given a true account of it, is not admissible as part of the dep

72 U.S. 318 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1866

Green v. Van Buskirk

Green v. Van Buskirk. 1. Where.personal property is seized and sold under an attachment, or other writ, issuing from a court of the State where the property is, the question of the liability of the property to be sold under such writ, must

72 U.S. 307 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1866

Christmas v. Russell

Christmas v. Russell. 1. A State statute which enacts that “no action shall be maintained on any judgment or decree rendered by any court without this State against any person who, at the time of the commencement of the action in which such

72 U.S. 290 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1866

Croxall v. Shererd

Croxall v. Shererd. 1. As a general thing, any legal conveyance will have the same effect upon an equitable estate that it would have upon the like estate at law; and whatever is true at law of the latter is true in equity of the former. Th

72 U.S. 268 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Personal Injury 1866

United States v. Repentigny

United States v. Repentigny. 1. On a conquest by one nation of another, and the subsequent surrender of the soil and change of sovereignty, those of the former inhabitants who do not remain and become citizens of the victorious sovereign, b

72 U.S. 211 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

Seaver v. Bigelows

Seaver v. Bigelows. In- a creditor’s bill — several creditors joining — to set aside a conveyance of property as fraudulently made, this court has no jurisdiction on appeal if the judgment of the creditor appealing do not exceed $2000. Th9

72 U.S. 208 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1866

Myers v. Fenn

Myers v. Fenn. The practice of permitting judgment creditors to come in and make themselves parties to a creditor’s bill, and so obtain the benefit, assuming at the same time their portion of the costs and expenses of the litigation, is wel

72 U.S. 205 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1866

Campbell v. City of Kenosha

Campbell v. City of Kenosha. 1. Where the legislature of a State passes two acts, one (which by the constitution it had the power to pass) authorizing a city to subscribe a limited amount ($150,000) of stock' to a railroad, another (which,

72 U.S. 194 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Dismissed 1866

Barton v. Forsyth

Barton v. Forsyth. 1. The appellate jurisdiction of this court on writs of error, under the twenty-second section of the Judiciary Act, is confined hy the express words of the section to final judgments, and the writ of error should be addr

72 U.S. 190 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

Ex parte Milwaukee Railroad

Ex parte The Milwaukee Railroad Company. 1. A case being properly in this court by appeal, the court has a right to issue any writ which may be necessary to render its appellate jurisdiction effectual. 2. Accordingly, it will issue the writ

72 U.S. 188 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

The Jenny

The Jenny. 3. A vessel sailing through blockaded waters may be properly seized on suspicion of'intent to break the blockade, when, in addition to the manifest bearing date as of a day when only a part of the cargo is laden, the bills of hea

72 U.S. 183 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

The Teresita

The Teresita. A neutral vessel, at anchor, completely laden with a neutral cargo, on the neutral side of a river dividing neutral from hostile water, washing a blockaded coast, was captured as being subject to just suspicion of ah intent to

72 U.S. 180 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

The Volant

The second case was that of The Volant. The brig Volant had been captured, near the mouth of the Rio Grande, on the 5th of November, 1863, by the United States steamer Granite City, and, with her cargo, was condemned, by the decree of the D

72 U.S. 179 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

The Science

Note. At the same time with the preceding appeal and cross-appeal, and by the same counsel, were argued two cases; one an appeal and cross-appeal, as the preceding, from the District Court- of the United States for the Eastern District of L

72 U.S. 178 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1866

The Dashing Wave

The Dashing Wave. 1. A neutral, professing to he engaged in tra'de with a neutral port, under circumstances which warrant close observation by a blockading squadron, must keep his vessel, while discharging or receiving cargo, so clearly on

72 U.S. 170 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1866

Stanley v. Colt

Stanley v. Colt. 1. Whether words in a devise constitute common law conditions annexed to an estate, a breach of which or any one of which, will work a forfeiture, defeat the devise, and let in the heirs, or whether they are regulations for

72 U.S. 119 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

Shelton v. Collector

Shelton v. The Collector. 1. Where merchandise receives dafoages during a voyage, proof to aseer- • ’ tain the damage must be lodged at the custom-house of the port where ■ • the goods are landed within ten days after the landing. 2. The da

72 U.S. 113 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Civil Rights 1866

Hadden v. Collector

Hadden v. The Collector. 1. The title of an act cannot be used to extend or to restrain any positive ■ provisions contained in the body of the act. It is only when the meaning of these is doubtful that resort may be had to the title, and ev

72 U.S. 107 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1866

Railroad Co. v. Barron

Railroad Company v. Barron. 1. A railroad company, which grants the use of .its road to another company, is responsible for accidents caused to passengers which it itself carries, by the negligence of the trains of the other company thus ru

72 U.S. 90 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Insurance Law 1866

Woodworth v. Insurance Co.

Woodworth v. Insurance Company. Where, in ease of a collision, one of two parties injured institutes proceedings against the vessel in fault, and at his own expense prosecutes his suit to condemnation of the vessel, or of the proceeds of he

72 U.S. 87 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Estate Planning & Probate 1866

Parmelee v. Simpson

Parmelee v. Simpson. 1. Where a deed to A., though executed before a mortgage of the same property to B., is not delivered until after the execution and record of the mortgage, the mortgage will take precedence of it. 2. - The placing of a

72 U.S. 81 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1866

Watson v. Sutherland

Watson v. Sutherland. The absence of a plain and adequate remedy at law affords the only test of equity jurisdiction, and the application of this principle to a particular case must depend altogether upon the character of the case, as discl

72 U.S. 74 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1866

United States v. Weed

United States v. Weed et al. 1. "When the record presents a case in this court which has been prosecuted exclusively.as prize, the property cannot- be here condemned as for a statutory forfeiture. 2. When the record presents a case prosecut

72 U.S. 62 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1866

The Peterhoff

The Peterhoff. 1. A blockade is not to be extended by construction. 2. The mouth of the Eio Grande, was not included in the blockade of the ports of the rebel States, set on foot by the National government during the late rebellion; and neu

72 U.S. 28 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion