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Tome v. Dubois
Tome v. Dubois. 1. Conversion of personal property by a wrongdoer does not deprive the owner of the power of making a valid sale of it. He may, if be sees fit, waive the tort, and affirm the wrongful act; and in that event a purchaser from
Clark v. United States
Clark v. United States. 1. Where a party, who, by contract, has a right to have and takes security to have work finished by a certain day, — no penalty nor any right to terminate the contract for non-completion being reserved, — permits the
Hanger v. Abbott
Hanger v. Abbott. The time during which the courts in the lately rebellious States were closed to citizens of the loyal States, is, in suit brought by them since, to be excluded from the computation of the time fixed by statutes of limitati
The Ouachita Cotton
The Ouachita Cotton. 1. The statute of July 13th, 1861, and the subsequent proclamation of President Lincoln under it, which made all commercial intercourse between any part of a State where insurrection against the United States existed an
Same v. Same
Same v. Same. The casé of Riggs v. Johnson County [supra, 166) affirmed. Error to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois: a case submitted by Mr. Howell, for the plaintiff in error, and by Messrs. Strong and Craig, contra:
United States v. Council of Keokuk
United States, ex rel., v. Council of Keokuk. 3. An act of Congress passed on the admission of Iowa into the Union in 1845, having provided that the laws of the United States not locally inapplicable should have the same effect within that
Prentice v. Pickersgill
Prentice v. Pickersgill. A judgment affirmed under Buie 23 of the court, with ten per cent, damages, it appearing from the character of the pleadings, that the writ of error must have been taken only for delay. Error to the Circuit Court fo
Gardner v. Collector
Gardner v. The Collector. Whenever a question arises of the existence of a statute, or of the time when a statute takes effect, or of its precise terms, the judges who may be called upon to decide it may resort to any source of information
The Battle
The Battle. Capture as prize of war, jure belli, overrides all previous liens. Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida. The libel set forth a seizure of the steamer Battle and cargo on the 18
Ex parte De Groot
Ex parte De Groot. Mandamus from this court will not lie to reverse a judgment of a court below, refusing a mandamus against the Secretary of the Treasury, commanding him to pay a sum of money awarded to the relator by the Secretary of "War
City of Washington v. Dennison
City of Washington v. Dennison. 1. A writ of error not sealed until eleven days after the judgment which it would seek to reverse was rendered, cannot operate as a supersedeas. 2. Nor one where there has been an omission to serve the citati
Foley v. Smith
Foley v. Smith. The rule of law that he who takes a note overdue and dishonored, takes it encumbered with all the equities between the prior parties to it, being the law of Louisiana as well as of those States which have adopted the common
United States v. Eckford
United States v. Eckford. When the United States is plaintiff and the defendant has pleaded a set-off (as certain acts of Congress authorize him to do), no judgment for any ascertained excess can be rendered against the government, although
Walkley v. City of Muscatine
Walkley v. City of Muscatine. After judgment at law for a sum of money against a municipal corporation, and execution returned unsatisfied, mandamus, not bill in equity, is the proper mode to compel the levy of a tax which the corporation w
Doe v. Considine
Doe, Lessee of Poor, v. Considine. 1. Though a devise to trustees “and their heirs,” passes, as a general thing, the fee, yet where the purposes of a trust and the power and duties of the trustees are limited to objects terminating with liv
Alviso v. United States
Alviso v. United States. An appeal from California dismissed at the last term for apparent want of a citation, now reinstated, it appearing that a citation had in fact been signed, served nnd filed in the clerk’s office, and that the buildi
Vose v. Bronson
Vose v. Bronson. Where a mortgage for a certain sum, as $4,000,000, was given to trustees to secure railroad bonds to be issued to a like amount, and many of the bonds having been issued at a large discount, were, on a claim made against th
Kail v. Wetmore
Kail et al. v. Wetmore. Same v. Douglass. Writs of error dismissed in two eases ; in one of which were but three plaintiffs in error, while the citation presented four; and in the other where the names in the citation were different from th
White v. Cannon
White v. Cannon. 1. A patent of the United States relinquishing to the patentee their right to certain land, but providing that it shall in no manner affect the rights of third persons, nor preclude a judicial decision between private claim
The Grace Girdler
The Grace Girdler. In an appeal in admiralty, where the record has failed to show that the sum necessary to give this court jurisdiction of such an appeal was in controversy below, the court, in a proper case, and where it is asserted by th
Silver v. Ladd
Silver v. Ladd. 1. Where a title under a settlement certificate issued under an act of Congress is set up hy a party in the highest court of a State, and the decision of such court; is against the title so set up, a writ of error lies from
Mumford v. Wardwell
Mumford v. Wardwell. 1. Where a paper in the form of a special verdict — except that after stating the facts, it did not refer the decision on them to the court in the conditional and alternative way usual in such verdicts, but found “ a ge
Turton v. Dufief
Turton v. Dufief. A gratuitous bailee of money to whom it is given for the purpose of lending it on good and sufficient security, and who, lending it to a person on property worth much more than the sum, and taking a properly executed mortg
Stark v. Starrs
Stark v. Starrs. 1. Under the statute of Oregon which provides, that any person in possession of real property may maintain a suit in equity against another, who claims an estate or interest therein adverse to him, for the purpose of determ
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