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The Potomac
The Potomac. 1. Although tho duty of vessels propelled by steam is to keep olear of those moved by wind, yet theso latter must not, by changing their course, instead of keeping on it, put themselves carelessly in the way of tho former, and
United States v. Smith
United States v. Smith. Under the net of. June 30th, 1804, to provide internal revenue to support tlio government, &c., which requires a license to persons exercising certain occupations, and fixes the limit to its duration, the parties to
Willard v. Tayloe
Willard v. Tayloe. 1. A covenant in a lease giving to the lessee a right or option to purchase the premises leased at any time during the term, is in the nature of a continuing offer to sell. The offer thus made, if under seal,.is regarded
Veazie Bank v. Fenno
Veazie Bank v. Fenno. 1. The 9th section of the act of July 13th, 1866, amendatory of prior internal revenue acts, and which provides that every National banking association, State bank, or State banking association, shall pay a tax of ten
Carpenter v. Dexter
Carpenter v. Dexter. 1. A justice of the peace was not authorized by the laws* of Illinois, in- 1818, to take the acknowledgment or proof, without the State, of deeds of land situated within the State ;.but this want of authority was remedi
Morris's Cotton
Morris’s Cotton. 1. Where a seizure of property on land is made under the acts of July 13th, 1861, or of August 6th, 1861, or July 17th, 1862, passed in suppression of the rebellion, the claimants are entitled to trial by jury, though the s
Kennedy v. Gibson
Kennedy v. Gibson and others. 1. The 50th section of the National Bank Act of June 3d, 1864 (13 Stat. at Large, 116), which provides that suits under it, in which officers or agents of the United States are parties, shall be conducted by th
Aldrich v. Ætna Co.
Aldrich v. Ætna Company. 1. A judgment in the highest court of law- or equity of a State, if otherwise a proper subject for review here, under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act, is not rendered incapable of being reviewed by the fact th
Parish v. United States
Parish et al. v. United States. 1. A contract made by a surgeon and medical purveyor of a military department of the United States, with parties for furnishing ice, for the use of the sick and wounded in the hospitals of the United States i
Allen v. Killinger
Allen v. Killinger. 1. To admit tho declarations of a third person in evidence, on tho ground that one party to tho suit had referred tho other party to him, it is necessary that tho reference should be for information relating to the matte
The Camanche
The Camanche. 1. A corporation is not disqualified, by the simple fact of its being a corporation, from maintaining a suit for salvage. Hence, where a service, in its nature otherwise one of salvage, was performed by a stock company, charte
Bennet v. Fowler
Bennet v. Fowler. 1. Whether a given invention or improvement shall be embraced in one, two, or more patents, is a matter about which some discretion must be left with the head of the Patent Office ; it being often a nice and perplexing que
Bronson v. Kimpton
Bronson v. Kimpton. The eases of Bronson v. Rodes and Butler v. Horwitz (7 Wallace, 229 and 258) affirmed. Appeal from the Court of Appeals of New York. Kimpton filed a bill against Bronson in one of the State courts of New York to compel s
Washington University v. Rouse
Note. ■ At the same time with the case just reported was argued and adjudged another in error to the same court. It was the case of The Washington University v. Rouse, In which the principles of the case just decided were held applicable to
Home of the Friendless v. Rouse
Home of the Friendless v. Rouse. 1. A statute which, for the declared purpose “of encouraging the establishment of a charitable institution," and enabling the parties engaged in thus establishing it “ more fully and effectually to accomplis
Blanchard v. Putnam
Blanchard v. Putnam. 1. Where, in a suit at law for infringement of a patent, witnesses testify to previous invention, knowledge, or use of the thing patented, the judgment will be reversed unless ah antecedent compliance with the requireme
Insurance Co. v. Mosley
Insurance Company v. Mosley. J., The declarations of a party himself, to whomsoever made, are competent evidence, when confined strictly to such complaints, expressions, and exclamations as furnish evidence of a present existing pain or mal
Bradley v. Rhines' Administrators
Bradley v. Rhines’ Administrators. 1. In a suit brought by the assignee of a chose in action in the Federal court on the contract so assigned, it is necessary that plaintiif shall show affirmatively that such action could have been sustaine
The Baltimore
The Baltimore. 1. Restitutio in integrum is the leading maxim as to the measure of damages in cases of libel in admiralty, for injury to vessels, for collision: in other words, where repairs are practicable, the general rule is, that the da
Avendano v. Gay
Avendano v. Gay. 1. A party in this court cannot allege as error in the court below, the admission of evidence offered by himself and objected to by the other side. 2. A statement of facts, made and filed by the judge several days after the
Mattingly v. Nye
Mattingly v. Nye. 1. The statute of 13 Eliz., ch. 5, which is in force in the District of Colum- • bia, does not affect, in favor of subsequent creditors, a voluntary settlement made by a rpan, not indebted at the time,"for his wife and chi
Kempner v. Churchill
Kempner v. Churchill. A'sale of personal property, made much below its cost,.by a man indebted to near or quite the extent of all he had, set aside as a fraud on creditors ; it having been made within a month after the property was bought,
Gilbert & Secor v. United States
Gilbert & Secor v. United States. 1. An act of Congress directing the Secretary of the' Navy to enter into a contract with, certain parties, provided it could be done on terms previously offered by the parties, does not, of itself, create a
Young v. Martin
Young v. Martin. 1. The entries of a clerk of a Territorial District Court, stating in a general way the proceedings had in that court, and that they were excepted to by counsel, do not present the action of the court and the exceptions tak
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