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United States v. Adams
United States v. Adams. 1. Where, after an appeal taken to this court from the Court of Claims, a party and his counsel are aware that the finding of the Court of Claims on a point of fact is erroneous, in time to have it corrected, before
Michigan Bank v. Eldred
Michigan Bank v, Eldred. 1. Evidence that by the articles of partnership one partner had no right to indorse negotiable paper, is inadmissible to defeat a bond fide holder of such paper indorsed with the firm name by a member of the firm, a
United States v. Padelford
United States v. Padelford. 1. Claimants under the Captured and Abandoned Property Act, of March 12th, 1863, are not deprived of the benefits of that act because of aid and comfort not voluntarily given by them to the rebellion. 2. But volu
The Northern Belle
The Northern Belle. 1. It is the duty of the carrier of grain in bulk, in barges on our Western rivers, in the way now usual, aa diatinguished from the old way in Backs, to see that hia barge is capable of resisting, without subjecting the
The Alleghany
The Alleghany. A steam vessel entering a short, narrow, and artificial channel, in some parts shoal, such as the “ Straight Out” at Milwaukee in which it is liable to meet tugs coming from the other end with tows, is bound to exercise cauti
The Keokuk
The Keokuk. 1. The law creates no maritime lien on a vessel as security for the performance of a contract to transport a cargo, unless some contract of affreightment has been made. 2. Such a contract cannot be implied against a transportati
The Washington
The Washington and The Gregory. 1. Where a collision between two vessels results from the fault of both of them, a party sustaining injuries from the collision may recover damages against botn vessels, and they may be proceeded against in t
The Gray Eagle
The Gray Eagle. 1. A neglect by one vessel, on approaching another in the night, to show proper signal lights, or her showing a wrong one, does not absolve such other vessel, under the act of Congress of April 29th, 1864, prescribing the li
The Nonesuch
The Nonesuch. The court has no jurisdiction of a cause transferred here from the Circuit Court by consent of parties. The Alicia (7 Wallace, 672) affirmed. This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern Dis
Hoe v. Wilson
Note. lu sequence to tbe preceding case should be reported another, an offspring from it, and like it, from the Supreme Court of the District, the case of Hoe et al. v. Wilson. 1. Where certain heirs at law seek to set aside a sale of their
Ingle v. Jones
Ingle v. Jones. 1. Although by the statutes of Maryland which are in force in that part of the District of Columbia which makes the county of Washington, judgment against an administrator for his testator’s debts should be entered only for
City v. Lamson
The City v. Lamson. 1, A holder of coupons which have been cut off from the bond to whicn they were originally attached, may bring suit on them, if they represent interest already due, notwithstanding he be no longer holder of the bond to w
Lionberger v. Rouse
Lionberger v. Rouse. 1. By the second limitation in the proviso to the 41st section of the National hanking act, which enacts that the tax which the section allows the States to impose on the shares held by persons in the said banks, “ shal
Copelin v. Insurance Co.
Copelin v. Insurance Company. 1. If a psrty assuring a vessel which has been sunk, gives notice that he abandons her, as for a total loss, w-hen by the terms of the policy he has no right so to abandon, the company, even if not accepting th
The Maggie Hammond
The Maggie Hammond. 1. Where a libel was filed against a foreign ship, in an admiralty ease, in an admiralty court of.the United States, the libellant and claimant both being foreigners, the place of shipping and the place of consignment be
United States v. Hosmer
United States v. Hosmer. The 3d section of the act of August 6th, 1861, which enacts that All the acts, proclamations, and orders of the Presidont of the United States, after the 4th of March, 1861, respecting the army and navy of the Unite
Flanders v. Tweed
Flanders v. Tweed. I. The court expresses itself as disposed to hold parties who, under the act of March 3d, 1865, waive a trial by jury and substitute the court for the jury, to a reasonably strict conformity to the regulations of the act,
The Fairbanks
The Fairbanks. Direct and positive oral testimony on a libel for collision between a steamier and a brig, going to show that the brig kept properly on her course, at least until the collision became inevitable, will not be controlled by the
Supervisors v. Durant
The Supervisors v. Durant. 1. Mandamus from a Federal court to officers of a county in a State, to levy a tax to pay interest on bonds issued by the county on which a relator has obtained judgment, and has no means of obtaining satisfaction
Mayor v. Lord
The Mayor v. Lord. 1. A mandamus directed to the mayor and aldermen of a city is rightly enough directed, if it appears that they together constitute the city council and have the government of it, even although the city may he incorporated
Noonan v. Bradley
Noonan v. Bradley. 1. An administrator appointed in one State cannot, by virtue of such appointment, maintain an action in another State, in the absence of a statute of the latter State giving effect to that appointment, to enforce an oblig
Bushnell v. Kennedy
Bushnell v. Kennedy. 1. It would seem that the restriction in the 11th section of the Judiciary Act, giving original jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts, and which provides that they shall not “have cognizance of any suit to recover the cont
Bank of Washington v. Nock
Bank of Washington v. Nock. 1 An agreement made by a contractor about to furnish certain manufactured articles to the government that advances to be made by a bank to enable him to fulfil his contract shall be a lien on the drafts to be dra
Mephams v. Biessel
Mephams v.- Biessel. 1. Compensation to a person who had acted for four months (from 16th March to 26th July), both as captain and as one of two pilots on a Missouri steamer, left at $900 per month, at which sum the Circuit Court had fixed
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