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the Lady Franklin
The Lady Franklin. 1. A bill of lading given by a person who was agent of several vessels all alike engaged in transporting goods brought to certain waters by a railway line, but having separate owners, and'not connected by any joint undert
Clark v. Reyburn
Clark v. Reyburn. 1. A decree of strict foreclosure, which does not find the amount due, which allows no time for the payment of the debt and the redemption of the estate, and which is final and conclusive in the first instance, cannot, in
Gibson v. Chouteau
Gibson v. Chouteau. 1. It is necessary to the jurisdiction of this court, under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act, that the record show, either by express words or necessary legal intendment, that one of the questions mentioned in that
Mandelbaum v. People
Mandelbaum v. The People. It is error, entitling the aggrieved party to á reversal, for a court, on motion of a plaintiff, to strike out of an answer that which constitutes a good defence, and on which the defendant may chiefly rely. Error
The Lucy
The Lucy. 1. An appeal which had been allowed from a District Court having Circuit Court powers dismissed; it having been allowed just after an act had passed, which created a Circuit Court for tho same district, and which repealed so much
The Carroll
The Carroll. 1. Nautical rules require, that where a steamship and sailing vessel are ap- . pronching from opposite directions, or on intersecting lines, the steamship, from the moment the sailing vessel is seen, shall watch with the highes
Patterson v. De la Ronde
Patterson v. De la Ronde. 1. The 3333d article of the Civil Code of Louisiana, which in English is as follows: “ The registry preserves the evidence of mortgages and privileges during ten years, reckoning from the day of their date"; their
Hudson Canal Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal Co.
Hudson Canal Co. v. Pennsylvania Coal Co. In the case of a contract drawn technically, in form, and with obvious attention to details, a covenant cannot be implied in the absence of language tending to a conclusion that the covenant sought
Gibbons v. United States
Gibbons v. United States. 1. In the Court of Claims the government is liable for refusing to receive and pay for what it has agreed to purchase. 2. When an individual who has been absolved from such a contract, by the refusal of the proper
Drakely v. Gregg
Drakely v. Gregg. 1. If, with a full knowledge of the facts eoncernirig it, a person ratify an agreement which another person has improperly made, concerning the property of the person ratifying, he thereby makes himself a party to it, as m
Morey v. Lockwood
Morey v. Lockwood. 1. Where a limitation of a claim, as found in a patent, has been caused by a mistake of the Commissioner of Patents in supposing that prior inventions would be covered, if the claim was made, as the applicant makes it, mo
Seymour v. Freer
Seymour v. Freer. 1. In May, 1835, an agreement was.entered into between Price and Seymour, which provided, on the part of Price, that he should devote his time and best judgment to the selection and purchase of. land, to an amount not exce
United States v. Lane
United States v. Lane. 1. The 8th section of the act of July 2d, 1864, which enacts that it shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, to authorize agents to purchase for the United States any pro
Paul v. Virginia
Paul v. Virginia. 1. A State statute which enacts that no insurance company not incorporated under the laws of the State passing the statute, shall carry on its business within the State without previously obtaining a license for that purpo
McKee v. United States
McKee v. United States. 1. The military authorities had no power under the act of July 13th, 1861, to license commercial intercourse between the seceding States and the rest of the United States. The Ouachita Cotton case (6 "Wallace, 521) a
Propeller Mohawk
Propeller Mohawk. 1. Where insurers, to whom the owners have adandoned, take possession, at an intermediate place or port, of goods damaged during a voyage by the fault of the carrier, and there sell them, they cannot hold the carrier liabl
Hinson v. Lott
Note. At the same timé with the preceding case, was decided another from the same court, much liké it in general principle; the case of Hinson v. Lott. 1. The principal of the preceding decision affirmed and applied to a case, where, althou
Woodruff v. Parham
Woodruff v. Parham. The term “import,” as used in that clause of the Constitution which says, that “no State shall levy any imposts or duties on imports or exports,” does not refer to articles imported from one State into another, but only
Waring v. Mayor
Waring v. The Mayor. The Bay of Mobile being included within the statutory definition of the port óf Mobile, contracts for the purchase of cargoes of foreign merchandise before or after the arrival of the vessel in the said bay, where the g
Nailor v. Williams
Nailor v. Williams. 1. Where a question is asked of a witness, which is illegal only because it may elicit improper testimony, and the court permits it to be answered against the objection of the other party, if the witness knows nothing of
Ex parte Yerger
Ex parte Yerger. 1. In alt cases where a Circuit Court of the United States has, in the exercise of its original jurisdiction, caused a prisoner to be brought before it, and has, after inquiring into the'cause of detention, remanded him to
United States v. Speed
United States v. Speed. 1. The War. Department, by its proper officers, may make a valid contract - for the slaughtering, curing, and packing of pork, when that is the most expedient mode of securing army supplies of that kind. 2. Such a co
Memphis City v. Dean
Memphis City v. Dean. 1. A'question which is pending in one court of competent jurisdiction cannot be raised and agitated in another by adding a new party and raising a new question as to him along with, the old one as to the former party.
Furman v. Nichol
Furman v. Nichol. 1. A cause can be removed from a State court in to this court under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, whenever some one of the questions embraced in it was relied on by the party who brings the cause h
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