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Reversed Tax Law 1871

Bath County v. Amy

Bath County v. Amy. The Circuit Courts of the United States have no power to issue writs of mandamus to State courts, by way of original proceeding, and where such writ is neither necessary nor ancillary to any jurisdiction which the court

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

Dismissed Civil Rights 1871

Ex parte McNiel

Ex parte McNiel. 1. The statutes of the several States regulating the subject of pilotage are, in view of the numerous acts of Congress recognizing and adopting them, to be regarded as constitutionally made, until Congress by its own acts s

80 U.S. 236 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Personal Injury 1871

Insurance Co. v. Wilkinson

Insurance Company v. Wilkinson. 1. The assured, in a life policy in reply to the question, “had she ever had a serious personal injury,” answered “ no.” She had, ten years before, fallen from a tree. The criteria of a serious personal injur

80 U.S. 222 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1871

Pennsylvania College Cases

Pennsylvania College Cases. The legislature of Pennsylvania chartered a college “ at Canonsburg,” by the name of the Jefferson College, “in Canonsburg,” giving to it a constitution and declaring that the same should “ be and remain the invi

80 U.S. 190 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1871

Wells v. McGregor

Wells v. McGregor. 1. A deeree-of the highest court of a State affirming an order of an inferior court, by which a motion to set aside a sheriff's return to an execution was allowed and an alias execution awarded, is not a “ final judgment

80 U.S. 188 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1871

Hampton v. Rouse

Hampton v. Rouse. In a writ of error to a joint judgment against several, all must join. The omission of one or more is an irregularity for which the writ will be dismissed; a matter often held. ■ This was a motion to dismiss a writ of erro

80 U.S. 187 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1871

Philip v. Nock

Philip et al. v. Nock. The right given by the acts of February 18th, 1861, and July 20th, 1870, of appeal or writ of error without regard to the sum in controversy in questions arising under laws of the United States, granting or conferring

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

Outcome n/a Insurance Law 1871

Steinbach v. Insurance Co.

Steinbach v. Insurance Company. On a policy of insurance requiring, though in a printed part, that fire works should be specially written in it, and which added 50 cents on the $100 as premium for insuring them, Held that evidence was right

80 U.S. 183 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Intellectual Property 1871

Pumpelly v. Green Bay Co.

Pumpelly v. Green Bay Company. 1. Where a plea relies on a statute authority as a defence, it must allege the facts which it asserts to be so authorized, and cannot pleud generally that it complied with the statute. Hence a plea is bad whic

80 U.S. 166 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1871

Reiche v. Smythe

Reiche v. Smythe, Collector. Where an act of 1861 exempted from duty “animals of all kinds; birds, singing and other, and land and water fowls,” and a later act levied a duty of 20 per cent. “ on all horses, mules, cattle, sheep, hogs, and

80 U.S. 162 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1871

Semmes v. Hartford Insurance

Semmes v. Hartford Insurance Company. 1 A condition in a contract of insurance that no suit or action shall be sustainable unless commenced within the time of twelve months next after the loss shall occur, and in case such action shall be c

80 U.S. 158 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1871

Pargoud v. United States

Pargoud v. United States. The President’s proclamation of December 25th, 1868, granting pardon and amnesty unconditionally and without reservation to all who participated, directly or indirectly, in the late rebellion, relieves claimants of

80 U.S. 156 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1871

Armstrong v. United States

Armstrong v. United States. 1. The President’s proclamation of the 25th December, 1858, granting ”unconditionally and without reservation to all and every person who directly or indirectly participated in the late insurrection or rebellion,

80 U.S. 154 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1871

Carroll v. United States

Carroll v. United States. In a claim by an administrator of a deceased person, against the United States, under the Abandoned and Captured Property Act of March 12th, 3863, which makes proof that the owner never gave aid or comfort to the r

80 U.S. 151 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1871

United States v. Klein

United States v. Klein. 1. The act of March 12th, 1863 (12 Stat. at Large, 820), to provide for the collection of abandoned and captured property in insurrectionary districts within the United States, does not confiscate, or in any case abs

80 U.S. 128 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1871

Norwich Co. v. Wright

Norwich Company v. Wright. 1. The act of Congress of 1851, limiting the liability of ship-owners, includes collisions, as well as injuries to cargo; so that if a collision happens between two vessels at sea, and one of them is in fault with

80 U.S. 104 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Intellectual Property 1871

Gibson v. Chouteau

Gibson v. Chouteau. 1. Statutes of limitation of a State do not apply to the State itself, unless it is expressly designated, or the mischiefs to be remedied are of such a nature that it must necessarily be included; and they do not apply t

80 U.S. 92 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1871

Samson v. Smiley

Note. At the same time with the preceding case was adjudged another from the same court with it, to wit, the ease of Samson v. Smiley. The case of Johnson v. Towsley, held applicable although no patent certificate was issued to the claimant

80 U.S. 91 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1871

Johnson v. Towsley

Johnson v. Towsley. 1. The question of the eonclusiveness of the action of the land officers in issuing a patent on the rights of other persons reconsidered and former decisions affirmed. 2. The tenth section of the act of June 12th, 1858 (

80 U.S. 72 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1871

Curtis v. Whitney

Curtis v. Whitney. 1. A statute does not necessarily impair the obligation of a contract because it may affect it retrospectively, or because it enhances the difficulty of performance to one party or diminishes the value of the performance

80 U.S. 68 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1871

Rice v. Houston

Rice v. Houston, Administrator. A citizen of one State getting letters of administration on the estate of .a decedent there, its citizen also, and afterwards removing to another State, and becoming a citizen of it, may sue in the Circuit Co

80 U.S. 66 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1871

Halliburton v. United States

Note. At the same time, with the preceding case, was heard another, in its chief point identical with it, but embracing also a.minor point of evidence. It was the case of Halliburton, Marshal, v. United States. 1. The doctrine of the preced

80 U.S. 63 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Family Law 1871

Bevans v. United States

Bevans, Receiver, v. United States. I. Where a receiver of public moneys has such moneys in his hands, which would not have been in his hands at all, if he had paid them over with the promptness that the acts of Congress and the Treasury Re

80 U.S. 56 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1871

Wheeler v. Harris

Wheeler v. Harris. 1. On appeal to the Circuit Court from a decree in the District Court for the payment of money, the Circuit Court affirmed the judgment of the District Court with costs to be taxed, from which affirmance the respondent to

80 U.S. 51 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion