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Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1870

McVeigh v. United States

McVeigh v. United States. 1. In a libel of information for the forfeiture of property, under the act of Congress of July 17th, 1862, entitled “An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the pro

78 U.S. 259 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded 1870

Garnett v. United States

Garnett v. United States. Where a case has been tried in the District Court of the District of Columbia, the judgment or decree rendered therein must be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the District, before the case can be brought before th

78 U.S. 256 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Personal Injury 1870

Levy v. Stewart

Levy v. Stewart. Though by the articles 3505 and 3506 of the civil code of Louisiana it is provided that bills and notes are prescribed in five years from their maturity, and that this prescription runs against minors, interdicted persons,

78 U.S. 244 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1870

The Fannie

The Fannie. 1 A schooner meeting a steamer approaching her on a parallel line, with the difference of half a point in the courses of the two, held, in a collision case, upon the evidence, to have kept on her course, and therein to have done

78 U.S. 238 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1870

May v. Le Claire

May v. Le Claire. 1. Contracts entered into in a spirit of peace and for the settlement of unadjusted demands on both sides, will not, where executed by persons of intelligence, and under circumstances which indicate caution and a knowledge

78 U.S. 217 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Civil Rights 1870

Insurance Co. v. Francis

Insurance Company v. Francis. An averment in a declaration that the defendant is a corporation created by an act of the legislature of the'State of New York, located in Aberdeen, Mississippi, and doing business there under the laws of the S

78 U.S. 210 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1870

Insurance Co. v. Treasurer

Insurance Company v. The Treasurer. 1. A State statute directed a county treasurer to give certificates of indebtedness to any bank in the county for the amount of tax paid on its investments in the public indebtedness of the United States,

78 U.S. 204 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Estate Planning & Probate 1870

Case v. Terrell

Case v. Terrell. 1. No judgment for the payment of money can be rendered against the United States in any court other than the Court of Claims without a special act of Congress conferring jurisdiction. 2. A receiver of a National bank, whos

78 U.S. 199 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1870

Generes v. Campbell

Generes v. Campbell. 1. The act of 3d March, 1865, providing for a trial without a jury, and a review by this court of the facts found by the judge, either generally or specially, by a sufficient bill of exceptions, is general in its terms,

78 U.S. 193 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Employment Law 1870

Leon v. Galceran

Leon v. Galceran. 1. A suit for mariners’ wages in personam is maintainable at common law, &nd is within the exception of the ninth section of the Judiciary Act defining the admiralty jurisdiction. 2. It' is no objection to the jurisdiction

78 U.S. 185 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1870

United States v. O'Keefe

United States v. O’Keefe. 1. By the proceeding known as a “petition of right,” the British government accords to citizens of the United States the right to prosecute claims against it. 2. Accordingly, British subjects, if otherwise entitled

78 U.S. 178 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Estate Planning & Probate 1870

Coal Co. v. Blatchford

Coal Company v. Blatchford. 1. In controversies between citizens of different States, where the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States depends upon the citizenship of the parties, if there are several co-plaintiffs, each plaintiff

78 U.S. 172 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1870

The Sapphire

The Sapphire. 1. A foreign sovereign can bring a civil suit in the courts of the United States. 2. A claim arising by virtue of being such sovereign (such as an injury to a public ship of war) is not defeated, nor does suit therefor abate,

78 U.S. 164 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1870

Farr v. Thomson

Farr v. Thomson et al. In which the preceding case was affirmed.

78 U.S. 139 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1870

Amy v. Supervisors

Amy v. The Supervisors. 1. The State and National courts being independent of each other, neither can impede or arrest any action the other may take, within the limits of its jurisdiction, for the satisfaction of its judgments and decrees.

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

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1870

Transportation Co. v. Downer

Transportation Company v. Downer. 1. The terms “ dangers of lake navigation” include all tbe ordinary perils which attend navigation on the lakes, and among others, that which arises from shallowness of the waters at the entrance of harbors

78 U.S. 129 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1870

Collector v. Day

The Collector v. Day. It is not competent for Congress under the Constitution of the United States to impose a tax upon the salary of a judicial officer of a State. Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Massachu-' setts; the case b

78 U.S. 113 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1870

Dows v. City of Chicago

Dows v. City of Chicago. A suit in equity will not lie to restrain the collection of a tax on the sole ground that the tax is illegal. There must' exist in addition special circumstances, bringing the case under some recognized head of equi

78 U.S. 108 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1870

New Albany v. Burke

New Albany v. Burke. A city subscribed to the stock of a railroad and issued bonds for a part of the subscription, agreeing to issue them for the rest of it when the road should be completed up to a certain point. The sale of the bonds was

78 U.S. 96 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Immigration Law 1870

United States v. Tynen

United States v. Tynen. 1. When there are two acts of Congress on the same subject, and the latter act embraces all the provisions of the first, and also new provisions, and imposes different or additional penalties, the latter act operates

78 U.S. 88 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1870

The Protector

The Protector. An appeal dismissed because taken in the name of William A. Freeborn ‡ Co.; the court holding that no difference existed between writs of error and appeals as to the manner in which the names of the parties should be set fort

78 U.S. 82 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Dismissed Bankruptcy & Debt 1870

Morgan v. Thornhill

Morgan v. Thornhill. No appeal lies to this court from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United ■ States, exercising the supervisory jurisdiction conferred upon it by the second section of the Bankrupt Act of 2d March, 1867. On motion to

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

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1870

Virginia v. West Virginia

Virginia v. West Virginia. 1. This court has original jurisdiction, under the Constitution, of controversies between States of the Union concerning their boundaries. 2. This jurisdiction is not defeated because in deciding the question of b

78 U.S. 39 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1870

Parmelee v. Lawrence

Parmelee v. Lawrence. 1. To authorize the re-examination of a question brought here as within the 25th section of the Judiciary Act, the conflict of the State law with the Constitution of the United States, and a decision by a State court i

78 U.S. 36 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion