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Dismissed 1871

Ex parte Russell

Ex parte Russell. 1. The words “ final disposition ” in the 2d section of the act of June 25th, 1868, allowing the Court of Claims ” at any time while any suit or claim is pending before or on appeal from the said court, or within two years

80 U.S. 664 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1871

Osborn v. Nicholson

Osborn v. Nicholson et al. A person in Arkansas, one of the late slaveholding States, for a valuable consideration, passed in March, 1861, before the rebellion had broken out, sold a negro slave which he then had, warranting “ the said negr

80 U.S. 654 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Civil Rights 1871

White v. Hart

White v. Hart. 1. The Constitution adopted by Georgia, A.D. 1868, by which it was provided that no court or officer shall have, nor shall the General Assembly give, jurisdiction to try, or give judgment on, or enforce any debt, the consider

80 U.S. 646 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Personal Injury 1871

United States v. Kimbal

United States v. Kimbal. 1. A marginal note put by the Quartermaster’s Department on bills of lading of vessels chartered by/them, “that if on the arrival of tha vessel at the port of destination the consignee should order her to another pl

80 U.S. 636 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1871

Pugh v. United States

Pugh v. United States. A petition to the Court of Claims setting forth— First. That the United States, during the late civil war, illegally, violently, and forcibly took possession of the petitioner’s plantation, in one of the rebellious St

80 U.S. 633 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1871

United States v. Russell

United States v. Russell. 1. "Where the government, in emergencies, takes private property into its use, a contract to reimburse the owner is implied. 2. The United States having, under a military emergency, during the rebellion, taken into

80 U.S. 623 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Family Law 1871

Insurance Co. v. Bailey

Insurance Company v. Bailey. Although equity have power to order the delivery up and cancellation of a policy of insurance obtained on fraudulent representations and suppressions of facts, yet it will not generally do so, when these represe

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

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1871

Paige v. Banks

Paige v. Banks. 1. Where in consideration of an agreement by publishers to pay him a certain sum of money, nnd the performance of specified duties in connection with the publication, a reporter of judicial decisions agreed in 1828 “ to furn

80 U.S. 608 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1871

Dooley v. Smith

Dooley v. Smith. 1. A plea which states that the sum due on a promissory note is a certain amount, on a certain day, and avers a tender on that day of the sum. due in legal tender notes of the United States, is a good plea of tender. 2 In a

80 U.S. 604 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Insurance Law 1871

Insurance Co. v. Barton

Insurance Company v. Barton. The granting or refusing to grant a motion for a new trial resting wholly in the discretion of the court where it is made, the action of such court is not ground for error. Error to the Circuit Court for the Dis

80 U.S. 603 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1871

Mason v. Rollins

Mason v. Rollins et al. Three appeals in equity against collectors and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue dismissed, the pleadings not showing the citizenship required by the Judiciary Act; and the bills having been all filed subsequently

80 U.S. 602 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1871

Blyew v. United States

Blyew et al. v. United States. Under the act of 9th April, 1866 (14 Stat. at Large, 27), sometimes called “The Civil Rights Bill,” -which gives jurisdiction to the Circuit Court of all causes, civil and criminal, affecting persons who are d

80 U.S. 581 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1871

Twenty Per Cent. Cases

Twenty Per Cent. Cases. Under the joint resolution of February 28th, 1867, increasing by 20 per cent, the pay of employes in the Department of the Interior, &e., and in the office of the Capitol and Treasury Extension and Commissioner of Pu

80 U.S. 568 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Personal Injury 1871

Stockwell v. United States

Stockwell v. United States. 1. The second section of the act of March 3d, 1823, amendatory of the act regulating the entry of merchandise imported into the United States from any adjacent Territory (3 Stat. at Large, 781), enacts: “That if

80 U.S. 531 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1871

Commonwealth v. Boutwell

Commonwealth v. Boutwell. Mandamus to the Secretary of the Treasury to compel him to deliver a warrant under the act of July 27th, 1861, directing him to refund to the governor of any State the expenses properly incurred in raising troops t

80 U.S. 526 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1871

Railroad Co. v. Soutter

Railroad Company v. Soutter et al. A railroad belonging to an incorporated company, and then under a first and second mortgage, was sold on execution and bought in by certain bondholders, whom the second or junior mortgage was given to secu

80 U.S. 517 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Intellectual Property 1871

French v. Edwards

French v. Edwards et al. 1. Statutory requirements intended for the guide of officers in the conduct of business devolved upon them and designed to secure order, system, and dispatch in proceedings, and by a disregard of which the rights of

80 U.S. 506 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Personal Injury 1871

Chew v. Brumagen

Chew v. Brumagen. 1. The assignee of a bond and mortgage who by the terms of the assignment holds it as collateral security for the payment of another debt, may under the 111th and 113th sections of the New York Code of Procedure sue, witho

80 U.S. 497 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1871

Carpentier v. Montgomery

Carpentier v. Montgomery et al. 1. Where a Spanish or Mexican grant of lands in California does not identify the precise tract of land granted, either by description or by reference, the title is an imperfect one, needing the further action

80 U.S. 480 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1871

The Ariadne

The Ariadne. 1. The obligation of a “ lookout ” on vessels sailing, in crowded waters such as the bay of New York, is of the highest kind. His cure must be indefatigable; his vigilance sleepless; and the rigor of the requirement rises accor

80 U.S. 475 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1871

Caujolle v. Ferrié

Caujolle v. Ferrié. A grant of letters of administration by a court having sole and exclusive power of granting them, and >vhich by statute is obliged to grant them “to the relatives of the deceased, who would be entitled to succeed to his

80 U.S. 465 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Intellectual Property 1871

Butler v. Watkins

Butler v. Watkins. I. On a suit for damages by a patentee against a British corporation and its “managing agent,” sent to this country, in having been fraudulently pretending in a series of negotiations to conclude an agreement with him, th

80 U.S. 456 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Intellectual Property 1871

Tucker v. Spalding

Tucker v. Spalding. 1. In an action at law, where a patent of prior date is offered in evidence as covering the invention described in the plaintiff's patent, on a charge of infringement, the question of the identity of the two instruments

80 U.S. 453 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1871

United States v. Vigil

United States v. Vigil. The Departmental Assemblies had no power under the laws of Mexico regu lating the disposition of the public domain, to give it away, either with or without the assent of the governor, except for the purposes of settl

80 U.S. 449 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion