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Outcome n/a 1872

Ryan v. Koch

Ryan v. Koch. A judgment affirmed because the plaintiff in error had filed no assignment of errors or brief, as required by the rules of court.

84 U.S. 19 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

Marin v. Lalley

Marin v. Lalley. 1. The order of seizure and sale called “ executory process,” made in Louisiana when the mortgage “ imports a confession of judgment,” is in substance a decree of foreclosure and sale, .and therefore a “ final decree;” espe

84 U.S. 14 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

United States v. Hickey

United States v. Hickey. 1. When the Court of Claims, on a claim embracing several items, rejects " some but allows others, against which allowance the United States alone appeals, this court will not give consideration to the items rejecte

84 U.S. 9 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

Cordova v. Hood

Cordova v. Hood. 1. Where a deed of land shows on its face that the consideration is yet “to be paid,” a second purchaser (that is to say, a purchaser from the vendee), who has notice of the deed, take£ the land in those States (of which Te

84 U.S. 1 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1872

In re the United States

Ex parte: In the matter of the United States. T. The power of the Court of Claims, under the second section of the act of June 25th, 1868,'to grant a now trial in favor of the-United States, .if moved for within two years next after the fin

83 U.S. 699 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1872

Olcott v. Supervisors

Olcott v. The Supervisors. 1. This court wilp follow, as of obligation, the decisions of the State courts only on local questions peculiar to thepiselves, or on questions respecting the construction of their own constitution and laws. 2. "W

83 U.S. 678 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1872

Railroad Co. v. County of Otoe

Railroad Company v. County of Otoe. 1. Unless restrained by a constitutional prohibition,of some sort, the legislature of a State may properly authorize’ a county to aid, by issuing’its bonds, and giving them as a donation to a railroad com

83 U.S. 667 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1872

St. Joseph Township v. Rogers

St. Joseph Township v. Rogers. A statute of Illinois, by a twelfth section, authorized any township along the route of a railroad named, to subscribe to its stock ; But enacted by a thirteenth, that no subscription should be made until noti

83 U.S. 644 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1872

Crapo v. Kelly

Crapo v. Kelly. ,A. of Massachusetts, owning a ship then on the high seas hound for the port of New York, hut registered in Massachusetts, applied to the insolvent court of Massachusetts for the benefit of the insolvent laws of the State, a

83 U.S. 610 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Intellectual Property 1872

Railway Co. v. Prescott

Railway Company v. Prescott. 1. The.proviso in the 21st section of the act of July 4th, 1864, amendatory of- the act of July 1st, 1862, to aid the Kansas Pacific Bailway in the •Construction of its road, requiring the prepayment of the cost

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

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

Wager v. Hall

Wager et al. v. Hall. 1. The transfer by a debtor who is insolvent, of his property, or a considerable portion of it, to one creditor as a security for a pre-existing debt, . without making any provision for an equal distribution of its pro

83 U.S. 584 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

Walbrun v. Babbitt

Walbrun v. Babbitt. 1. When on the undisputed parts of a case a verdict is clearly right, so that if a nsvapenire were awarded .the same verdict would have to be given, a court w4H not reverse because on-some disputed points a charge may ha

83 U.S. 577 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1872

Water Co. v. Ware

Water Company v. Ware. Where an incorporated company undertook to lay water-pipes in a city, agreeing that it would “ protect.all persons against damages by reason of excavations made by them in laying pipes, and to be responsible for all d

83 U.S. 566 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1872

Specht v. Howard

Specht v. Howard et al. 1. Where improper evidence has been suffered by the court to get before the • jury, it is properly afterwards Withdrawn from it. 2. On a suit by the indorsee of a negotiable note which has.no place of payment specifi

83 U.S. 564 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1872

Smith v. McCool

Smith v. McCool. 'Where in ejectment a special verdict has been found and judgment entered on it in the court below, for the plaintiff, which judgment, in an appellate court, is set aside with directions to enter judgment for the defendant,

83 U.S. 560 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1872

Marshall v. Knox

Marshall v. Knox. 1. The District Court sitting in bankruptcy has no jurisdiction to proceed .by rule to take goods seized, before any act of bankruptcy by the lessees, for rent due by them in Louisiana, under “ a writ of provisional seizur

83 U.S. 551 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1872

Mitchell v. Hawley

Mitchell v. Hawley. •A. patentee of certain machines, whose original patent had still between six and seven years to run, conveyed to another person the “ right to make and use and to license to others the right to make and use four .of the

83 U.S. 544 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1872

Beall v. New Mexico

Beall v. New Mexico. 1. A statute authorizing judgment against'the'sureties of an appeal bond, - as well as against the appellants, in case of affirmance, is not unconstitutional. ■ 2. A Territorial legislature, having by its organic act po

83 U.S. 535 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1872

Steamboat Co. v. Chase

Steamboat Company v. Chase. A statute of a State giving to the next of kin of a person crossing upon one of its public highways with reasonable care, and killed by a common carrier by means of steamboats, an action on the case for damages f

83 U.S. 522 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1872

Tweed's Case

Tweed’s Case. A person having entered, January 23d, 1866, into a contract with the government to purchase, as its agent, “ cotton which formerly belonged to the so-called ‘Confederate States’ now in the possession of individuals in the Red,

83 U.S. 504 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

Planters' Bank v. Union Bank

Planters’ Bank v. Union Bank. Union Bank v. Planters’ Bank. 1. A military commander commanding the department in which the city of Hew Orleans was situate, had not the right, on the 17th of August, 1863, after the occupation of the city by

83 U.S. 483 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1872

Osborne v. Mobile

Osborne v. Mobile. The State of Georgia-chartered a company to transact a general forwarding and express business. The company had a business office at Mobile, in Alabama, and there did an express business which extended within and beyond t

83 U.S. 479 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1872

Morgan v. Parham

Morgan v. Parham. 1. When a vessel is regularly registered in the port to which she belongs, that is to say, “ in the port nearest to which her owner, husband, or acting and managing owner usually resides” [registered, ex. gr., at New York]

83 U.S. 471 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1872

Kenicott v. Supervisors

Kenicott v. The Supervisors. 1. A legislative act chartering a railroad company and authorizing the construction of a railroad between certain points, authorized, by its 7th, 8th, and 9th sections, the company to borrow money, and authorize

83 U.S. 452 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion