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Outcome n/a 1869

Gunnell v. Bird

Gunnell v. Bird. 1. In stating partnership accounts, where one partner has had entire charge of the business, he is to be debited with the whole capital placed in his hands, as well as with the proceeds of sales realized by him. 2. If part

77 U.S. 304 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed 1869

Washington Railroad v. Bradleys

Washington Railroad v. Bradleys. 1. It is a gross irregularity to hear a case without some terms imposed, on an amended bill filed after replication, without leave of the court. 2. So it is an irregularity to go to hearing without replicati

77 U.S. 299 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Employment Law 1869

Butchers' Benevolent Ass'n v. Crescent City Live-Stock Landing & Slaughter-house Co.

Slaughter-house Cases. The Butchers’ Benevolent Association of New Orleans v. The Crescent City Live-stock Landing and Slaughter-house Company. Same Defendants v. Same Plaintiffs. Hotair Imbau et al. v. The Crescent City Live-stock Landing

77 U.S. 273 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1869

Deery v. Cray

Deery v. Cray. 1. A deed which referred to a plat of the land for one of the lines of the boundary, maybe read in evidence to the jury without the produc-. tion of the plat, subject to an identification of such lin.e by competent evidence d

77 U.S. 263 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1869

New Orleans Railroad v. Morgan

New Orleans Railroad v. Morgan. The appellee filed his petition in the Circuit Court of the United States averring that he was the holder of a large amount of bonds and coupons, secured by mortgage executed by the appellant. He prayed for e

77 U.S. 256 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1869

Deming's Appeal

Deming's Appeal. Motion to reinstate a supposed legal tender case denied on the ground chiefly of laches; notwithstanding consent of the other side, the United States. Latham and Denting being entitled, each of them, to recover a certain su

77 U.S. 251 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1869

The Columbia

The Columbia. A steamer crossing another so as to involve risk of collision, condemned in a case of collision : 1st. ÍTor violation of the regulation, then existing, that when st.eamvessels were so crossing, the one which had the other on h

77 U.S. 246 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1869

Hornsby v. United States

Hornsby et al. v. United States. 1. Grants of the public domain of Mexico, made by governors of the- department of California, were of three kinds: 1st, grants by specific boundaries, where the donee was entitled to the entire tract describ

77 U.S. 224 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1869

Braun v. Sauerwein

Braun v. Sauerwein. 1. Although the running of a statute of limitations to the right of suing may be suspended by causes not mentioned in the statute itself, as, for example, by the fact that the plaintiff, without default of his own, has b

77 U.S. 218 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1869

The Kalorama

Note. Soon after the preceding appeal was decided, two other appeals, both from the same court with it, and with facts which distinguished them little, if at all, from it in principle, were adjudged. They were The Kalorama, The Custer. 1. T

77 U.S. 204 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1869

The Lulu

The Lulu. The Qrapeshot (9 Wallace, 129) affirmed on the second point adjudged therein (pp. 133-141); and the doctrine again declared, that in the case of a lien asserted against a vessel supplied or repaired in a foreign port, necessity fo

77 U.S. 192 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Personal Injury 1869

Railroad Co. v. Reeves

Railroad Company v. Reeves. 1-. When a common carrier shows that a loss was by some vis major, as by flood, he is excused without proving affirmatively that he was guilty of no negligence. , 2. The proof of such negligence, if the negligenc

77 U.S. 176 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1869

Downham v. Alexandria Council

Downham et al. v. Alexandria Council. An ordinance of the city council of Alexandria imposed a license tax of two hundred dollars upon dealers in beer or ale by the cask which was not manufactured in that city, but'brought there for sale. T

77 U.S. 173 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1869

Dean v. Nelson

Dean v. Nelson. X. A sale of stock in a company at its par value, the consideration to be paid out of the net receipts of earnings of the stock; received quarterly by the company, and a note given therefor, with the condition that the princ

77 U.S. 158 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1869

Bank of the Republic v. Millard

Bank of the Republic v. Millard 1. The holder of a hank check cannot sue the hank for refusing payment in the absence of proof that it was accepted by the bank or charged against the drawer. 2. The fact that the check was properly drawn on

77 U.S. 152 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1869

Feild v. Farrington

Feild v. Farrington. 1. In a suit between a consignor, and his factors, who had made advances on the consignment nearly equal to its value — the allegation of the consignor being non-compliance by the factors with his order to sell — the al

77 U.S. 141 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1869

Clark v. Bousfield

Clark v. Bousfield. A claim for arranging an elastic bed for printing designs, is not a claim for a design under the eleventh section of the act of March 2d, 1861, entitled “ An act in addition to an act to promote the progress of the usefu

77 U.S. 133 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1869

Wiggins v. Burkham

Wiggins et al v. Burkham. 1. An account rendered, and not objected to within a reasonable time, is to be regarded as admitted by the party charged, to be primCt facie correct. 2. If certain items in an account under such circumstances are o

77 U.S. 129 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1869

Texas v. Chiles

Texas v. Chiles. Motion made on the foot of a decree against a'defendant to compel an account, when the decree, by its terms, limited the accounting to the date of service of process in the suit, denied, where the property for which the acc

77 U.S. 127 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1869

Stimpson v. Woodman

Stimpson v. Woodman. Where a roller in a particular combination had been used before without designs on it,- and a roller with designs on it had also been used in another combination-, it was not a patentable invention to place designs on.

77 U.S. 117 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1869

The Schools v. Risley

The Schools v. Risley. 1. Calls for the Mississippi Eiver in deeds or conveyances from one private individual to another .private individual for lots in'St. Louis do not give or create riparian rights in the grantees. ■ 2. The eastern bound

77 U.S. 91 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1869

Texas v. Hardenberg

Texas v. Hardenberg. 1. Under a bill by a State praying that a defendant may be enjoined from asking payment of certain United States bonds belonging to it, unlawfully taken some time before from its treasury, and now redeemable, and, for s

77 U.S. 68 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1869

Mahoney v. United States

Mahoney v. United States. The provision of the act of Congress ofMay-lst,-1810, fixing-a salary to . the consul at Algiers and assigning to him certain duties, treating that place as belonging to a Mohammedan power, ceased to be operative w

77 U.S. 62 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1869

Boylan v. United States

Boylan v. United States. 1. Under the 96th section of the Excise Act of June 30th, 1864, exempting from a tax laid on sundry articles of dress by section 95, clothes manufactured of materials on which a duty had been paid, unless “the in-oi

77 U.S. 58 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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