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States v. Hartwell
United States v. Hartwell. 1. An office is a public station or employment, conferred by the appointment of government; and embraces the ideas of tenure, duration, emolument, and duties. Accordingly, a person in the public service of the Uni
The Victory
The Victory. Before this court can entertain jurisdiction to review a judgment of the State court, it must appear that one of the questions mentioned in the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act was raised in the State court, and actual
Grisar v. McDowell
Grisar v. McDowell. 3. By the laws of Mexico, which prevailed in California at the date of the conquest, pueblos or towns, when once established and officially recognized, were entitled, for their benefit and the benefit of their inhabitant
Mussina v. Cavazos
Mussina v. Cavazos. 1. The writ of error by which a case is transferred from a Circuit Court to this court is the writ of the Supreme Court, although it may be issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court; and the original writ should always be
Lorings v. Marsh
Lorings v. Marsh. 1. Where a testatrix having children, and grandchildren the issue of one of them, makes a will, in form, leaving the income of her property in trust equally, between the children for life (saying nothing about the grandchi
Selz v. Unna
Selz v. Unna. 1. Equity will not grant relief where the allegations of the complainant show that he has no title nor interest in the subject-matter of the dispute. 2. Nor, in an action where all are liable (as ex: gr. an action of trespass
Ex parte McCardle
Ex parte McCardle. (Motion.) Under the act of February 5th, 1867 (14 Stat. at Large, 885), to amend the Judiciary Act of 1789, ail appeal lies to this court on judgments in habeas corpus cases rendered by Circuit Courts in the exercise of o
Thompson v. Bowman
Thompson et al. v. Bowman. 1. The fact that real property is held in the joint liames of several owners, or in the name of one for the benefit of all, is no evidence of partnership between the parties with respect to it. .In the absence of
Clements v. Moore
Clements v. Moore. Moore v. Clements. 1. An objection to an amended bill in cháncery because not filed with the leave of the court below (as it is contemplated by Rule 45 of the equity rules that such bills should be), or the objection that
United States ex rel. Crawford v. Addison
United States for the use of Crawford v. Addison. 1. C. being already duly in office ns mayor, under a charter which prescribed that a mayor in office should “continue in office two years, and until a successor is duly elected,” was returne
Barney v. Baltimore City
Barney v. Baltimore City. 1. Part owners or tenants in common in real estate of which partition is asked in equity have an interest in the subject-matter of the suit, and in the relief sought, so intimately connected with that of their co-t
Lum v. Robertson
Lum v. Robertson. 1. Where a hank charter is forfeited on quo warranto and the corporation is dissolved, and a trustee appointed by judicial order made under statute to collect the debts due to it and apply them to the payment of debts whic
Slater v. Maxwell
Slater v. Maxwell. 1. Where land is sold for taxes the inadequacy of the price given is not a valid objection to the sale. 2. Where a tract of land sold for taxes consists of several distinct parcels, the sale of the entire tract in one bod
The Adela
The Adela. 1. Neither an enemy nor a neutral acting the part of an enemy can demand restitution on the sole ground of capture in neutral waters. The Sir W. Peel (5 Wallace, 535), affirmed. 2. A vessel condemned for intended breach of the bl
The Flying Scud
The Flying Scud. 1. A cargo shipped from a neutral country by neutrals resident there, and destined ostensibly to a neutral port, restored with costs after capture in a suspicious region, and where the vessel on its outward voyage had viola
Millingar v. Hartupee
Millingar v. Hartupee. 1. The twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act does not give jurisdiction to this court in cases of decisions by the courts of a State against mere asser- .. Hons of an exercise of authority under the United States.
Andrews v. Hensler
Andrews v. Hensler. 1. Under the code of Louisiana, which allows general and special pleas to be pleaded together, if consistent with each other, an amended answer or plea on a redhibitory action for diseased and useless slaves bought at au
Mayor v. Cooper
The Mayor v. Cooper. 1. Where a court has no jurisdiction of a case, it cannot award costs, or order execution for them to issue. 2. Where a party removes under a statute of the United States from a State court to the Circuit Court of the U
Agricultural Co. v. Pierce County
Agricultural Company v. Pierce County. A writ of error made returnable to a day different from the return day fixed by statute as the day on which the term commences, dismissed. Error to the Supreme Court of Washington Territory. The writ o
McClane v. Boon
McClane v. Boon. 1. Where,pending a writ of error to this court, subsequently dismissed, the defendant in error dies and the other side wishes to take a new writ, application should be made to the court below for the purpose of reviving the
The Sea Witch
The Sea Witch. Restitution of a neutral vessel ordered, which had apparently set out on a lawful voyage, though she was captured out of the most direct and regular course of it, and in a position open to some question ; there having been he
Georgia v. Grant
State of Georgia v. Grant. Though there is bo general rule of court in regard to the matter, yet where a party desires to file a bill in original jurisdiction in equity, it has been usual to hear a motion in his behalf for leave to do so. T
Mason v. Eldred
Mason v. Eldred et al. 1. Under the plea of the general issue in actions of assumpsit evidence may be received to show, not merely that the alleged cause of action never existed, but also to show that it did not subsist at the commencement
The Vanderbilt
The Vanderbilt. I, Where the usage in navigating a river is, that both ascending and descending vessels shall keep'to the right of the centre of the channel,— which is the usage in the Eiver Hudson, — the omission to comply, sea- ■ sonably,
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