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Clinton v. Englebrecht
Clinton et al. v. Englebrecht. 1. The effort of a defendant to secure, so far as he can, by peremptory challenges and challenges for cause, a fair trial of his case, does not waive an inherent and fatal objection to the entire panel. 2. The
West Tennessee Bank v. Citizens' Bank
West Tennessee Bank v. Citizens’ Bank. A case is not within the 25th section of the Judiciary Act when the judgment below is founded on a matter which is not within the section, even though it be founded also, for an independent base, on ot
Davenport v. Lamb
Davenport v. Lamb et al. 1. The act of Congress of 1836 authorizing the issue of patents for land in the name of deceased parties, who in their lifetime became entitled to such patents, applies to patents under the act of Congress of Septem
Kitchen v. Bedford
Kitchen v. Bedford. 1. Where a person acknowledged the receipt of “the sum of $119,000 in bonds” of a railroad company, and of “50,405 dollars of coupons,” amounting in the aggregate to “ the sum of $169,405,” “ which said sum he promised t
Tarble's Case
Tarble’s Case. 1. The government of the United States and the government of a State are distinct and independent of each other within their respective ,-pheres of action, although existing and exercising their powers within the same territo
The Siren
The Siren. 1. The right of vessels of the navy of the United States to prize-money comes only in virtue of grant or permission from the United States, and if no act of Congress sanctions a claim to it, it does not exist. 2. No such act give
Alexander v. Roulet
Alexander v. Roulet. Prefects in California, however appointed or elected, had no power, after the conquest of the country by the United States, to make grants of the common or unappropriated lands of the'pueblos within their jurisdiction.
Slaughter's Administrator v. Gerson
Slaughter’s Administrator v. Gerson. 1. The misrepresentation which will vitiate a contract of sale, and prevent a court of equity from aiding its enforcement, must relate to a material matter constituting an inducement to the contract, and
Salt Co. v. East Saginaw
Salt Company v. East Saginaw. 1. A law offering to all persons and to corporations to he formed for the purpose, a bounty of 10 cents for every bushel of suit manufactured in a State from water obtained by boring in the State, and exemption
Hall v. Railroad Companies
Hall & Long v. The Railroad Companies. An insurer of goods, consumed and totally destroyed by accidental Are in course of transportation by a common carrier, is entitled, after he has paid the loss, to recover what he has paid, by suit in t
Robinson v. United States
Robinson v. United States. 1. Where a party agreed to deliver so many bushels of “ first quality clear barley,” the contract not stating whether the barley was to be delivered in sacks or in bulk, i. e., loose, held that evidence was proper
Gay's Gold
Gay’s Gold. 1. The treasury regulation, No. 22, forbidding all transportation of coin or bullion to any State or section declared by the President's proclamation to be in insurrection, was valid, and was authorized by the act of May 20lh, 1
Bradley v. Fisher
Bradley v. Fisher. 1. An order of the Criminal Court of the District of Columbia, made in 1807, striking the name of an attorney from its roll, did not remove the attorney from the bar of the Supreme Court of the District, the Criminal Cour
The Patapsco
The Patapsco. Supplies furnished to a ship in a foreign port and necessary to enable her to complete her voyage, and actually so used by her, constitute á lien, unless it can be inferred that the master had funds or the owners had credit; a
Canal Co. v. Clark
Canal Company v. Clark. 1. To entitle a name to equitable protection as a trade-mark, the right to its use must be exclusive, and not one which others may employ with as much truth as those who use it. And this is so although the use by a s
Williams v. Kirtland
Williams v. Kirtland. 1. A tax deed executed by a county auditor under a statute of Minnesota of 1806, declaring that where lands sold for taxes were not redeemed within the time allowed by law, such deed should beprimd facie evidence of a
Pendleton County v. Amy
Pendleton County v. Amy. 1. On suit upon the coupons of railroad bonds payable, both bonds and coupons, by their terms, to' the bearer—the declaration alleging the plaintiff to be owner, holder, and bearer of the coupons—a plea that the pla
Myers v. Croft
Myers v. Croft. 1. When the grantee in a deed is described in a way which is a proper enough description of an incorporated company, capable of holding land, as ex. gr., “ The Sulphur Springs Land Company,” the court, in the absence of any
Railway Co. v. Whitton's Administrator
Railway Company v. Whitton’s Administrator. 1. Although a corporation, being an artificial body created by legislative power, is not a citizen, within several provisions of the Constitution; yet where rights of action are to be enforced by
Raleigh & Gaston Railroad v. Reid
Note. .At the same time with the preceding case was adjudged another, from the same court, the two cases being of kindred character, and alike in their essential features, the difference between the two consisting chiefly in the extent of t
Wilmington Railroad v. Reid
Wilmington Railroad v. Reid, Sheriff. 1. A statute exempting all the property of a railroad corporation from taxation, exempts not only the rolling stock and real estate owned by it and required by the company for the successful-prosecution
Klinger v. Missouri
Klinger v. State of Missouri. Where the judgment of a State court might have been based either upon a State law repugnant to the Constitution or laws of the United States, or upon some other independent ground, and it appears that the court
United States v. Wilder
United States v. Wilder. 1. When a debtor admits a certain sum to be due by him and denies that a larger sum claimed is due, a payment of the exact amount admitted cannot be converted by the creditor into a payment, on account of the larger
United States v. Avery
United States v. Avery. 1. The court cannot take cognizance of a division of opinion under the Judiciary Act of 1802, between the judges of the Circuit Court on a motion to quash an indictment, even when the motion presents the question of
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