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Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

Mead v. Thompson

Mead v. Thompson. 1. If a petition to the Circuit Court to re-examine a decree of the District Court in Bankruptcy, pray the court to “review” and reverse that decree and “ to grant such further order and relief as may seem just,” the juris

82 U.S. 635 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1872

New Orleans v. Gaines

New Orleans v. Gaines. 1. Where a master, on reference, has followed the order of the judgment and enforced its directions, no objection can be taken, on appeal, to what . he has done when the appeal arises upon exceptions to his report, an

82 U.S. 624 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1872

Gunn v. Barry

Gunn v. Barry. An exemption law of Georgia, passed several years ago, exempted from execution in favor of each head of a family, “ fifty acres of land, and five additional ones for each of his children under the age of 16 years, the land to

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

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

Holbane v. Sumner

Holbane v. Sumner. When a corporation of Louisiana which had leased premises bn which it had goods liable to the landlord’s lien, was owing rent (for the payment of which by the law of the State the landlord had a right by a judicial procee

82 U.S. 600 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

Brown v. Kennedy

Brown v. Kennedy. 1. Under the act of July 17th, 1862, “ to seize and confiscate the property of rebels,” &e., which authorizes the confiscation of all “the estate', property, money, stocks, .and credits ” of rebels, — if the information be

82 U.S. 591 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1872

Life Insurance v. Terry

Life Insurance Company v. Terry. In the case of a policy of life assurance, where there is a condition in the instrument that if the assured shall “ die by Lis own hand,” the policy shall be void, the rules to be applied in case of the deat

82 U.S. 580 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1872

Partridge v. Insurance Co.

Partridge v. The Insurance Company. 1. An agent of an insurance company who had been engaged in a State different from that where it was situated, in soliciting business for it, and getting fixed commissions on all premiums which actually c

82 U.S. 573 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1872

Police Jury v. Britton

Police Jury v. Britton. The trustees or representative officers of a parish, county, or other local ' jurisdiction, invested with the usual powers of administration in specific matters, and the power of levying taxes to defray the necessary

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

Reversed Estate Planning & Probate 1872

Young v. Godbe

Young v. Godbe. ■When a suit turns on the question whether money claimed in it by the plaintiff has been advanced to the defendant, in one capacity or in another, evidence of what a person who had settled an account on the subject with the

82 U.S. 562 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1872

Adger v. Alston

Adger v. Alston. 1. Where a suit was brought in Louisiana, for a debt due January 1st, 1858, the writ being served February 29th, 1868, held that in view of the decision in The Protector (12 Wallace, 700) that in the State named, the war of

82 U.S. 555 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1872

Frow v. De La Vega

Frow v. De La Vega. 1. A final decree on the merits cannot he made separately against one of several defendants upon a joint charge against all, where the case is still pending as to the others. 2. If One of several defendants to a hill mak

82 U.S. 552 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1872

Riggin v. Magwire

Riggin v. Magwire. 1. The fifth section of the Bankrupt Act of 1841 enacts that— “ All creditors whose debts are not dae and payable until a future day, all annuitants, holders of bottomry and respondentia bonds, holders of policies of insu

82 U.S. 549 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1872

Hannewinkle v. Georgetown

Hannewinkle v. Georgetown. 1. A bill to restrain the collection of a tax cannot be maintained on the sole ground of the illegality of the tax. There must be an allegation of fraud; that it creates a cloud upon the title; that there is appre

82 U.S. 547 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1872

Deitsch v. Wiggins

Deitsch v. Wiggins. 1. The court calls the attention of the bar to the necessity of a strict compliance with the 21st Rule in the assignment of errors; a compliance which it declared is necessary to the disposition of the business which now

82 U.S. 539 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Personal Injury 1872

Parrot v. Wells, Fargo & Co.

The Nitro-glycerine Case. [Parrot v. Wells, Fargo & Co.] 1. In 1866 the defendants, who were expressmen engaged In carrying packages between New York and California, by way of the Isthmus of Panama, received at New York a box containing nit

82 U.S. 524 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Civil Rights 1872

Holyoke Co. v. Lyman

Holyoke Company v. Lyman. 1. By the settled law of Massachusetts, the rights of fishery in such rivers as the Connecticut, even above the point where it is navigable for boats or rafts, are public rights, and, unless there be some express p

82 U.S. 500 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1872

Miller v. State

Miller v. The State. A constitution o£ New York, made in 1826, ordains that “ corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special act except in certain cases;” and also “that all general laws and special acts,

82 U.S. 478 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1872

Prout v. Roby

Prout v. Roby. 1. No particular phraseology is necessary to create a separate estate for a feme ccmert. In whatever language expressed, if there is a clear intent of the parties to create the estate, it is created. 2. A lease of land for a

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

Reversed 1872

City of Charleston v. Branch

Note. At the same time with the preceding ease was argued and adjudged another appeal, from the same court, the case, namely, of the City of Charleston v. Branch,

82 U.S. 470 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1872

Tomlinson v. Branch

Tomlinson v. Branch. 1. The doctrine that a State legislature, unrestricted by constitutional prohibition, has power to exempt certain property from taxation, reiterated. 2. Where a railroad company, by its charter, was granted such an exem

82 U.S. 460 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1872

Tomlinson v. Jessup

Tomlinson v. Jessup. 1. The Northeastern Railroad Company was incorporated by the legislature of the State of South Carolina in 1851 for fifty years, and the usual powers of railroad companies were granted to it. At that time a general law

82 U.S. 454 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1872

Flanders v. Tweed

Flanders v. Tweed. 1. Where objection is made in this court that a court below allowed a clerk and marshal there excessive fees, but the record, while showing what fees were allowed, furnishes no means of ascertaining what services were ren

82 U.S. 450 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1872

Hanauer v. Woodruff

Hanauer v. Woodruff. 1. Bonds issued by authority of the convention of Arkansas, which attempted to carry that State out of the Union, for the purpose of supporting the war levied by the insurrectionary bodies then controlling that State ag

82 U.S. 439 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1872

City of Richmond v. Smith

City of Richmond v. Smith. The council of the city of Richmond, towards the close of the rebellion, and in anticipation of the entry into the city of the forces of the United States, which were then beleaguering it, passed a resolution that

82 U.S. 429 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion