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Reversed Intellectual Property 1871

Nicolson Pavement Co. v. Jenkins

Nicolson Pavement Company v. Jenkins. An assignment of a reissued patent, reciting the date and number of the reissue, and that'the original patent had been “ given for the term of fourteen years;” reciting that the assignee had agreed to p

81 U.S. 452 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1871

Improvement Co. v. Munson

Improvement Company v. Munson. 1. By'the settled land laws of Pennsylvania no title can exist under a second survey, unless such second survey have been ordered by the board of property. 2. The mere fact that a second survey was made is not

81 U.S. 442 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1871

Mowry v. Whitney

Mowry v. Whitney. 1. The ancient mode of annulling or repeating the king’s patent was by scire facias generally brought in the chancery where the record of the instrument was found. 2. In modern'times the court of chancery, sitting in equit

81 U.S. 434 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1871

Smith v. Mason

Smith v. Mason, Assignee. 1. “Where an assignee in bankruptcy claims a fund as the property of his bankrupt, which some time before the bankruptcy a firm of which the bankrupt was a member transferred to a third party, and which the transfe

81 U.S. 419 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1871

The Steamer Webb

The Steamer Webb. 1. Although an engagement by a steamer to tow a sailing Vessel does not impose more than an obligation to carry out tbe contract with that degree of caution which prudent navigators usually employ in similar services, yet

81 U.S. 406 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1871

O'Dowd v. Russell

O’Dowd v. Russell. 1. A notice by one of three defendants to his co-defendants of his intention to prosecute a writ of error, ánd a refusal.by them to co-operate, is equivalent to the old proceeding of summons and severance, and the one def

81 U.S. 402 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Civil Rights 1871

Bank of Bethel v. Pahquioque Bank

Bank of Bethel v. Pahquioque Bank. 1. A National banking association may be sued in any state, county, or municipal court in the county or city where such association is located, kaving jurisdiction-in similar cases. 2. Such an association

81 U.S. 383 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Insurance Law 1871

Insurance Companies v. Weides

Insurance Companies v. Weides. 1. A statement in figures of the value of certain merchandise destroyed by fire, which statement professed to be a copy of another and original statement contained in á book — itself destroyed in the fire — de

81 U.S. 375 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1871

Pugh v. McCormick

Pugh v. McCormick. 1. The 5th section of the act of July 14th, 1870 (16 Stat. at Large, 257),—by which the power of collectors of internal revenue to post-stamp certain instruments of writing and remit penalties for the non-stamping of them

81 U.S. 361 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Personal Injury 1871

The Continental

The Continental. 1. Although one vessel may be sailing at night with lights other than those whose use is made obligatory on her by acts of Congress, and may by actually misleading another Véssel tend to cause a collision, yet this , will n

81 U.S. 345 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Employment Law 1871

The Laura

The Laura. 1. The master, officers, and crow of a vessel, with every person on board, having gone off in extreme anxiety for their personal safety from the vessel on to another which thqy had brought to them by signals of distress, the mere

81 U.S. 336 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1871

French v. Shoemaker

French v. Shoemaker. 1. A., B., O., and D., having a dispute about their rights in a railroad company, entered into a contract of settlement, by which they divided the stock in certain proportions among them. A. refused to carry out the con

81 U.S. 314 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1871

Dent v. Emmeger

Dent v. Emmeger. 1. Inchoate rights in the Territory of Louisiana, such as those made A.D. 1789, by a concession of the then Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana to Gabriel Cerre, were of imperfect obligation on the United States when suc

81 U.S. 308 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1871

Bigler v. Waller

Bigler v. Waller. 1. Where the terms of a mortgage or deed of trust require that before any foreclosure or sale under it is made, sixty days’ notice shall be given in certain newspapers, a sale without the notice convoys no title. 2. Althou

81 U.S. 297 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1871

City of Lexington v. Butler

City of Lexington v. Butler. 1. The restriction of the 11th section of the Judiciary Act giving original jurisdiction to the Circuit Courts, but providing that they shall not “ have cognizance of any suit to recover the contents of any prom

81 U.S. 282 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1871

Easley v. Kellom

Easley v. Kellom et al. 1. Where the Land Department of the government, defying an unfounded pre-emption claim in the government lands set up by a person indebted to several persons, proceeds to sell the lands at public auction, as part of

81 U.S. 279 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1871

The Cayuga

The Cayuga. 1. Although where two steamships are running in the same direction — the ship astern sailing faster than the ship ahead — the ship-astern is in general bound to adopt the necessary precautions to avoid, a collision, the rule doe

81 U.S. 270 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1871

The Vaughan & Telegraph

The Vaughan and Telegraph. 1. Where exceptions of form are taken on a libel in admiralty in the District Court, but are not found in the record of the appeals from the District to the Circuit Court, or from the Circuit Court to this one, an

81 U.S. 258 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Estate Planning & Probate 1871

Hook v. Payne

Hook v. Payne. 1. In a suit in the Circuit Court of the United States by a distributee of the estate of a decedent to recover a distributive share, the mere fact that the administrator is ordered to account before a master does not make par

81 U.S. 252 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Bankruptcy & Debt 1871

Gibson v. Warden

Gibson v. Warden. 1. Under the statutes of Ohio authorizing chattel mortgages, a seal is not •necessary to their validity. 2. Where one partner, R. M., affixed his name and seal to an instrument whose testatum set forth that ‘‘ R. M. & Sons

81 U.S. 244 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1871

Caperton v. Ballard

Caperton v. Ballard. To bring a case here under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act, on the ground that the provision of the Constitution which ordains that “full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records a

81 U.S. 238 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1871

Caperton v. Bowyer

Caperton v. Bowyer. 1. A Southern State passed in 1865 a statute of limitations enacting that in computing the time in which any civil suit, proceeding, or appeal should be barred by any statute of limitation, the term of time from the 17th

81 U.S. 216 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1871

The Mabey & Cooper

The Mabey and Cooper. 1. Although the general rule is that a party who does not appeal cannot be heard in opposition to the decree, still where it appeared — the suit,below being a libel for collision against a tug and her tow — that an app

81 U.S. 204 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1871

The Merrimac

The Merrimac. 1. The fact that a steamship is in charge and under the control of a pilot taken on board conformably to the laws of the State, is not a defence to a proceeding in rem against her for a tortious collision ; the laws of the Sta

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

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