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Outcome n/a 1870

Miller v. State

Miller et al. v. The State. Although a suit bo nominally by a State as the plaintiff, yet where the real plaintiffs are individuals — as ex gr. in a quo warranto, where the State is plaintiff ex relatione — the court will not advance, oven

79 U.S. 159 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1870

Baker v. Morton

Baker v. Morton. 1. A deed procured through fear of loss of life, produced by threats of th'e grantee, may be avoided for duress. 2. A judgment being but a general lien and the creditor under it obtaining no incumbrance but on such estate a

79 U.S. 150 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1870

Bigler v. Waller

Bigler v. Waller. On a bill filed in the Circuit Court for Virginia, against A. and B., tho administrators of both wore substituted on the record as defendants; A. and B. themselves having died after the bill was filed, and suggestion of th

79 U.S. 142 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1870

The Eutaw

The Eutaw. When a case is within the jurisdiction of the court, and there'has been no defect in removing it from the subordinate court to this, the court will not dismiss the case on motion made out of the regular call of the docket. Motion

79 U.S. 136 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Civil Rights 1870

Mail Co. v. Flanders

Mail Company v. Flanders. 1. The Circuit Court of theTJnited States has no jurisdiction under the act of March 12th, 1863, commonly known as the Abandoned and Captured Property Act, where both parties are citizens of the same State. 2. Alth

79 U.S. 130 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1870

Noonan v. Bradley

Noonan v. Bradley, Administrator. The court, — admitting that an administrator of a decedent appointed in one State'(that of his decedent’s residence), cannot, in the absence of statute, maintain an action in another State, to enforce an ob

79 U.S. 121 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Civil Rights 1870

Fowler v. Rathbones

Fowler v. Rathbones. 1. "Whore a ship and cargo are exposed at a particular place to a common peril of sinking, and becoming submerged in deep water, and the expense of raising and saving them from that place would be greater than if strand

79 U.S. 102 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1870

French v. Shoemaker

French v. Shoemaker. 1. Where the whole law of a case before a Circuit Court is settled by a decree, and nothing remains to. be done, unless a new application shall be made at the foot of the decree, the decree is a final one, so far as res

79 U.S. 86 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1870

Railroad Co. v. Harris

Railroad Company v. Harris. 1. Where a Maryland railroad corporation whose charter contemplated the extension of the road beyond tho limits of Maryland, was allowed by act of the legislature of Virginia — re-enacting tho Maryland charter in

79 U.S. 65 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1870

Railroad Co. v. Dubois

Railroad Company v. Dubois. 1. Construction of Dubois’s patent, of September 23d, 1862, “for building piers for bridges, and setting the same.” Held, to bo for a device or instrument used in a process, and not for the process itself. 2. It

79 U.S. 47 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1870

The Maria Martin

The Maria Martin. 1. Even flagrant fault committed by one of two vessels, approaching each other from opposite directions does not excuse the other from adopting every proper precaution required by the special circumstances of the case to p

79 U.S. 31 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1870

Sturges v. Collector

Sturges v. The Collector. Under the 6th section of the act of March 3d, 1865, which enacts that “ there shall be hereafter collected and paid on all goods, wares, and merchandise, of the growth or produce of countries east of the Cape of Go

79 U.S. 19 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1870

Collector v. Hubbard

The Collector v. Hubbard. 1. A promise on the part of a collector of taxes to repay a tax illegally collected and paid only under protest cannot be implied whore statute makes it the duty of such officer to pay into the public treasury with

79 U.S. 1 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1870

Whiteley v. Kirby

Whiteley v. Kirby. The inventions of Nelson Piatt and of Alfred Churchill, patented, the former June 12,1849, the latter March 3d, 1841 (harvesters), contained nothing -which antedated the peculiar device secured by patent to Byron Dins-mor

78 U.S. 678 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1870

Cook v. Burnley

Same Case. 1. An application to an inferior court to supply a lost record, being matter addressed to its discretion, is not a subject for writ of error. 2. If after a lost record of a case where judgment below has been affirmed, is supplied

78 U.S. 672 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1870

Cook v. Burnley

Cook v. Burnley. 1. The title of Juan Cano, a colonist in the empressario grant of Martin De Leon, and to whom the commissioner of that colony conveyed a league of land April 11, 1835, was a good title. The case of White v. Burnley (20 Howa

78 U.S. 659 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1870

Henderson's Tobacco

Henderson’s Tobacco. 1. Although a former statute is impliedly repealed by a subsequent one ■ plainly repugnant to it, or so far as the later statute’s making new provisions is plainly intended for a substitute for the earlier one, yet a re

78 U.S. 652 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1870

Mann v. Rock Island Bank

Mann v. Rock Island Bank. In this case the court expresses its dissatisfaction with appeals being made whose only effect is to throw upon it the burden of making minute investigations and analyses of evidence in controversies where the case

78 U.S. 650 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1870

United States v. Wright

United States v. Wright. Under the 5th section of the act of March 3, 1863 (12 Stat. at Large, 702), which declares that “whenever by reason of the presence of a military or naval force near any post-office, unusual business neorues thereat

78 U.S. 648 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1870

United States v. Lynde

United States v. Lynde. 1. Under the treaty of cession of Louisiana, made with France, April 30th, 1803, the United States Government always claimed to the Perdido JRiver on the east, although the Spanish authorities kept possession of, and

78 U.S. 632 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1870

Bank v. Carrollton Railroad

Bank v. Carrollton Railroad. 1. A party coming into the right of a partner, whether by purchase from such partner (no matter how broad the language of the conveyance may be) or as his personal representative, or under an execution or commis

78 U.S. 624 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1870

Cherokee Tobacco

The Cherokee Tobacco. 1. The 107th section 'of the Internal Kevenue Act of July 20, 1868, which enacts that “the internal revenue laws imposing taxes on distilled spirits, fermented liquors,tobacco, snuff, and cigars, shall be construed to

78 U.S. 616 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1870

Dunphy v. Kleinsmith

Dunphy v. Kleinsmith and Duer. 1. A complaint which is in form and substance such a complaint as is made in “a creditor’s bill,” is a case of equitable jurisdiction, and one requiring equitable relief as distinguished from legal. 2. In a Te

78 U.S. 610 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Personal Injury 1870

Reed v. United States

Reed v. United States. 1. An order by the United States to the owners of a vessel, during the rebellion, to get her ready, under pain of impressment, to transport a cargo to a particular place and back, under which order, though the owners

78 U.S. 591 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion