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Remanded Personal Injury 1866

The Moses Taylor

The Moses Taylor. 1. A contract for the transportation of passengers by a steamship on the ocean is a maritime contract, and there is no distinction in principle between it and a contract for the like transportation of merchandise. The same

71 U.S. 411 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Estate Planning & Probate 1866

Gilman v. Lockwood

Gilman v. Lockwood. Certificates of discharge granted under insolvent laws passed by a State cannot be pleaded in bar of an action brought by a citizen of another State in the courts of the United States, or of any other State than that whe

71 U.S. 409 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Employment Law 1866

United States v. Quimby

United States v. Quimby. Split white-ash timber, chiefly designed to be used in the manufacturo of long shovel handles, the growth and product of the Province of Canada, and imported from there into the United States, were not free from dut

71 U.S. 408 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1866

United States v. Hathaway

United States v. Hathaway. Staves for pipes, hogsheads, and other casks, the growth and produce of the province of Canada, imported in November, 1863, from Canada into the United States, were not free from duty under the reciprocity treaty

71 U.S. 404 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1866

Barrows v. Kindred

Barrows v. Kindred. Although, when statute abolishing its fictitious forms places the action of ejectment on the same footing with other actions, as to the conclusiveness of the judgment, the court will give effect to the same; yet where a

71 U.S. 399 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1866

Ex parte Garland

Ex Parte Garland. 1. The act of Congress of January 24th, 1865, providing that after its pas- , sage no person shall be admitted as an attorney and counsellor to the bar of the Supreme Court, and, after March 4th, 1865, to the bar of any Ci

71 U.S. 333 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1866

Cummings v. Missouri

Cummings v. The State of Missouri. 1. Under the form of creating a qualification or attaching a condition, the States cannot in effect inflict a punishment for a past act which was not punishable at the time it was committed. 2. Deprivation

71 U.S. 277 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1866

Larned v. Burlington

Larned v. Burlington. The doctrines of the preceding case affirmed. Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Iowa. Mr. Grant, for the plaintiff in error; Mr. Ewing, contra.

71 U.S. 275 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1866

Mitchell v. Burlington

Mitchell v. Burlington. 1. A provision in the charter of a city corporation authorizing it to borrow money for any public purpose, whenever, in the opinion of the Oity Council, it shall be expedient to exercise it, is a valid power. Rogers

71 U.S. 270 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1866

Brown v. Bass

Brown v. Bass. 1. Brown Brothers & Co. bad filed a creditor’s bill against the Bank of Mississippi before haring obtained judgment at law, which, however, was obtained soon after the bill was filed. After this a receiver was appointed and p

71 U.S. 262 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1866

Graham v. United States

Graham v. United States. 1. The Mexican law made a formal delivery of possession of real property granted essential, after tlie execution of the grant, for the investiture of the title. 2. The proceeding had upon such delivery — called, in

71 U.S. 259 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1866

People v. Commissioners

People v. The Commissioners. 1. Shares in hanks, whether State hanks or those organized under the act of June 3d, 1864, “ to provide a national currency,” &c., are liable to taxation hy the State under certain limitations (set forth in sect

71 U.S. 244 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Family Law 1866

Mitchell v. St. Maxent's Lessee

Mitchell v. St. Maxent’s Lessee. 1. A writ of fieri facias, tested and issued after the death of the party against whom the judgment is recovered, is void, and confers no power on the ministerial officer to execute it. 2. The rule applies w

71 U.S. 237 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1866

Hughes v. United States

Hughes v. United States 1. The equity of a preemption claimant of land under the laws of the United States who has complied with the conditions imposed by those laws, obtained his certificate by the payment of tb e purchase-money, and retai

71 U.S. 232 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1866

Evans v. Patterson

Evans v. Patterson. 1. The court reproves the practice of making- bills of exception a sort of abstract or index to the history of the case, and so of obscuring its merits. 2. Where a party claiming land as owner, under the laws of Pennsylv

71 U.S. 224 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1866

Rutherford v. Geddes

Rutherford v. Geddes. 1. Depositions cannot be used on the trial of a suit in admiralty, which were taken in another suit concerning the same subject-matter, where the party against whom they are offered was not a party to the suit in which

71 U.S. 220 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1866

Witherspoon v. Duncan

Witherspoon v. Duncan. 1. The different States, as a general rule, have the right of determining the manner of levying and collecting taxes on private property within their •limits; and can declare that a tract of land shall he chargeable w

71 U.S. 210 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1866

Lanfear v. Hunley

Lanfear v. Hunley. X. The act of Congress of August 10th, 1856, confirming claims in favor of Ambrose Lanfear, confirmed to Mm whatever he was entitled to by virtue of the original grant referred to in it, conceding that to have been valid.

71 U.S. 204 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Immigration Law 1866

Christy v. Pridgeon

Christy v. Pridgeon. 1. The Mexican colonization law of August 18th, 1824, though general to the Republic of Mexico, was, so far as it affected lands within the limits of Texas, after the independence of that country, a local law of the new

71 U.S. 196 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1866

Mayor v. Sheffield

Mayor v. Sheffield. 1. Where a corporation is sued for an injury growing out of negligence of the corporate authoi'itics, in their care of the streets of the corporation, they cannot defend themselves on the ground that the formalities of t

71 U.S. 189 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1866

Leftwitch v. Lecanu

Leftwitch v. Lecanu. 1. “Wien a paper which is to constitute a part of a hill of exceptions is not incorporated into the "body of the bill, it must he annexed to it, or so marked by letter, number, or other means of identification mentioned

71 U.S. 187 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1866

United States v. Allsbury

United States v. Allsbury. If a judgment is obtained against a surety, the amount of it being fixed by a judgment previously obtained against his principal, the former judgment cannot be reversed on error as for an amount too small, though

71 U.S. 186 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Personal Injury 1866

United States v. Dashiel

United States v. Dashiel. 1. The loss of public money by a receiver and disburser of it, through felonious taking away, though without fault on his part, does not discharge him or his sureties from obligation on his official bond. 2. Whatev

71 U.S. 182 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1866

Railroad Co. v. Rock

Railroad Company v. Rock. 1. In a ease brought here from a State court, under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act, the record must show that some one of the matters mentioned in that section was necessarily decided by the court, n

71 U.S. 177 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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