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Remanded Personal Injury 1866

The Springbok

The Springbok. 1. Though invocation, in prize cases, is not regularly made on original hearing, but only after a cause has been fully heard on the ship’s documents and the preparatory proofs, and where suspicious, circumstances appear from

72 U.S. 1 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

United States v. McMasters

United States v. McMasters. 1. It, is the duty of a party excepting to evidence to point out the part excepted to, so that the attention of the court may be drawn to it. Hence objections of a very general and indefinite nature to testimony

71 U.S. 680 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1866

Robbins v. Chicago City

Robbins v. Chicago City. 1. Parties having notice of the pendency of a suit in -which they are directly interested must exercise reasonable diligence in protecting their interests, and if instead of doing so they wilfully shut their eyes to

71 U.S. 657 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1866

Railroad Co. v. Lindsay

Railroad Company v. Lindsay. 1. The article 8499 of the Civil Code of Louisiana, which proscribes that “actions for the payment of freight of ships and other vessels are prescribed by one>year,” does not apply to a case where the plaintiffs

71 U.S. 650 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1866

United States v. Le Baron

United States v. Le Baron. 1. When a contract is alleged by the pleadings to have been made on a certain day, it is no variance to offer in evidence a written contract which took effect on a different day. 2. If it be proved that a bond bea

71 U.S. 642 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1866

The Nassau

The Nassau. 1. The jurisdiction of a court of admiralty over a vessel captured jure belli, is determined by the fact of capture. The filing of a libel is not necessary to create it. 2. "When, under the act of Congress of the 25th March, 186

71 U.S. 634 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1866

Ware v. United States

Ware v. United States. 1. Where — oil a suit by the United States against a deputy postmaster for damages in not paying over moneys which came to his hands during 'the r :: months next preceding the discontinuance (March 13th, 1862) of the

71 U.S. 617 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1866

Pearson v. Duane

Pearson v. Duane. 1. Although a common carrier of passengers hy sea, as a master of a steamship, may properly refuse a passage to a person who has been forcibly expelled by the actual though violent and revolutionary authorities of a town,

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

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1866

Ryan v. Thomas

Ryan v. Thomas. Where a decision of the highest court of law or equity of a State is in favor of the validity of a statute of or an authority exercised under the United States, drawn in question in such court, this court, under the twenty-f

71 U.S. 603 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1866

Bell v. Railroad Co.

Bell v. Railroad Company. 1. Municipal corporations, such as the- county boards of police usual in Mississippi, -when authorized by statute to do acts 'which otherwise they would have no power to do — such, for example, as subscribe to a ra

71 U.S. 598 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Dismissed Employment Law 1866

Sparrow v. Strong

Sparrow v. Strong. 1. This court will not take jurisdiction of a judgment shown by the context of the record to be but an order affirming a refusal of a court below to grant a new trial; even though the language of the record of affirmance

71 U.S. 584 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1866

Newell v. Nixon

Newell v. Nixon. 1. Although no partnership may exist between them, yet whore two persons are joint owners of a vessel against which a claim exists for non-delivery of cargo, and one gives a note in the joint name for a balance agreed on as

71 U.S. 572 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Personal Injury 1866

The Hine v. Trevor

The Hine v. Trevor. 1. The doctrine of the case of The Genesee Chief, 12 Howard, that the admiralty jurisdiction of the Pederal courts, as granted by the Constitution, as not limited to tide-water, but extends -wherever vessels float and na

71 U.S. 555 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1866

Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy

Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy. 1.. Where a statute has authorized a municipal corporation to issue bonds and to exercise the power of local taxation in order to pay them, and persons have bought and paid value for bonds issued accordingly,

71 U.S. 535 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1866

Commissioner of Patents v. Whiteley

Commissioner of Patents v. Whiteley. 1. Where an applicant for reissue of a patent has done all in his power to make his application effectual — has filed his application with the acting commissioner and paid the requisite amount of fees —

71 U.S. 522 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1866

Purcell v. Miner

Purcell v. Miner. A contract for the exchange of lands is as much within the statute of frauds as a contract for their sale, and a party seeking to enforce a specific execution of a parol contract for that purpose, must bring himself within

71 U.S. 513 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1866

Bentley v. Coyne

Bentley v. Coyne. 1. Where a vessel has the wind free, or is sailing before or with the wind, she must keep out of the way of the vessel which is elosehauled hy the wind or sailing hy or against it. Those elosehauled on the wind, or sailing

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

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1866

Saulet v. Shepherd

Saulet v. Shepherd. 1. Under the practice prevailing in the Circuit Courts of the United States the finding of the facts by the court makes a case in the nature of a special verdict and is conclusive as to those facts; and this although the

71 U.S. 502 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1866

Mississippi v. Johnson

The State of Mississippi v. Johnson, President. 1. The President of the United States cannot be restrained by injunction from carrying into effect an act of Congress alleged to be unconstitutional, nor -will a bill having such a purpose be

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

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1866

Thompson v. Bowie

Thompson v. Bowie. On an issue as to whether certain promissory notes, dated on a particular day, were given for money lost at play and therefore void, it is not allowable to prove that the party giving them was intoxicated on the day of th

71 U.S. 463 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1866

Bradley v. People

Bradley v. The People. A tax on the capital of a hank is not the same thing as a tax upon the shares of ■which the capital is composed. And where a State imposes on the State hanks a tax on their capital (the shares in the hands of the shar

71 U.S. 459 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1866

Davidson v. Lanier

Davidson v. Lanier. 1. It is not required that a -writ of error be allowed by a judge. It is enough that it is issued and served by copy lodged with the clerk of the court to which it is directed. 2. A mistake in the date of the writ of err

71 U.S. 447 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1866

Supervisors v. United States

Supervisors v. United States, Ex relatione 1. On application hy a creditor for mandamus against county officers to levy a tax to pay a judgment, the defendant cannot impeach the judgment hy setting up that interest was improperly given in i

71 U.S. 435 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1866

Semple v. Hagar

Semple v. Hagar. 1. When a want of jurisdiction is patent, or can be readily ascertained by an examination of the record in advance of an examination of the questions on the argument of the merits, this court will entertain and act upon a m

71 U.S. 431 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion