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Nunez v. Dautel
Nunez v. Dautel. 1. A paper dated in one of the Southern States and promising to pay with interest, a sum of money specified and acknowledged to be due, "as soon as the crop can be sold or the money raised from any other source,” is not in
Atlantic, Tennessee & Ohio Railroad v. Carolina National Bank
The Confederate Note Case. The Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad Company, The Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad Company, Joseph Wilson and Anderson Mitchell, v. The Carolina National Bank of Columbia, South Carolina, L. D. Childs, a
Butt v. Ellett
Butt v. Ellett. 1. Although an instrument which purports to mortgage a crop the seed of which has not yet been sown, cannot at the time operate as a mortgage of the crop, yet when the seed of the crop intended to he mortgaged has been sown
Insurance Co. v. Seaver
Insurance Company v. Seaver. 1. Where two persons were driving sulkies in competition alongside of each other at a horse-race for money, — which sort of race was made illegal by statute, — and on a collision ensuing, one jumped to the groun
Head v. The University
Head v. The University. Where in a university of learning, belonging to the State, and which the State was in the habit of governing through curators appointed by itself (such as the University of Missouri), a person was appointed by the cu
Burke v. Miltenberger
Burke v. Miltenberger. 3. The Provisional Court of Louisiana, established by President Lincoln on the 20th of October, 1862, did not cease to exist until July 28th, 1866, when Congress by statute of that day provided for the transfer of cas
Ryan v. United States
Ryan et al. v. United States. 1. Sureties on a bond for the transportation of tobacco from one district to another, in the condition of which, the number of boxes and pounds of tobacco are given, and the kind of tobacco described, are respo
Ex parte Robinson
Note. SAME CASE. [On Appeal.] An appeal does not lie to this court from an order of the District Court disbarring an attorney. The remedy of the party, if any, is by mandamus. See the case as reported, supra. Appeal from the District Court
Ex parte Robinson
Ex parte Robinson. 1. The act of Congress of March 2d, 1831, entitled “ An aet declaratory of the law concerning contempts of court,” limits the power of the Circuit and District Courts of the United States to three classes of cases: 1st, w
Tappan v. Merchants' National Bank
Tappan, Collector, v. Merchants’ National Bank. 1. Shares of stock in the National banks are personal property, and though they are a species of personal property which, in one sense, is intangible and incorporeal, the law which created the
United States v. Arwo
United States v. Arwo. Under the act of March 3d, 1825, § 22, by which an assault on a person upon the high seas with a dangerous weapon is made an offence against the United States, and' the trial of the offence is to be “ in the district
Mayor v. Ray
The Mayor v. Ray. A city corporation, the charter of which gave to it the usual powers formerly given to such corporations, but which did not give to it the power to borrow money, being, and, for some time having been, pecuniarily embarrass
Klein v. Russell
Klein v. Russell. 1. Where on a trial for infringement of a reissue of letters-patent — the defence being a want of novelty — a defendant requests the court below to direct the jury to bring in a verdict for the defendant (no objection bein
Telegraph Co. v. Eyser
Telegraph Company v. Eyser. Under the eleventh section of the act of June 1st, 1872, “ to further the administration of justice ” (and which allows any person desiring lo have a judgment, decree, or order, &e., reviewed on error or appeal,
Mitchell v. Tilghman
Mitchell v. Tilghman. What R. A. Tilghman, of Philadelphia, claimed as his invention under the letters-patent granted to him of January 9th, 1854, was the process of manufacturing fat-acids and glycerin from fatty or oily substances by the
Coit v. Robinson
Coit v. Robinson. When, after opposition by a creditor to the discharge of a petitioner in bankruptcy, the District Court discharges him. and the opposing creditor flies in the Circuit Court a “petition of appeal,” — a petition setting fort
Hall v. Jordan
Hall v. Jordan. 1. Where the consideration in a deed is expressed to be so many dollars, the stamp required is the same whether in point of fact the sum named be paid in gold or in notes of the United States, made by law a legal tender. 2.
Caldwell's Case
Caldwell’s Case. 1. In a contract made for the transportation of military supplies nnd stores in the Western country, and in the presence of actual war, between the military department of the government and a private party, the terms “ post
Kitchen v. Rayburn
Kitchen v. Rayburn. A., the president of a railroad company, wanting B., a farmer, to sell to him a piece of land containing about 1100 acres, and worth $10 an acre, agreed to give to B. five bonds, for $1000 each, of the company, with coup
Nugent v. The Supervisors
Nugent v. The Supervisors. 1. To constitute a “ subscription ” by a county to stock in a railroad company, it is not necessary that there be an act of chirogrnphicnl subscribing. A resolution of the county declaring a subscription made, an
Dollar Savings Bank v. United States
The Dollar Savings Bank v. United States. 1. The ninth section of the Internal Revenue Act of 1866 subjects to the tux of five per cent, laid on the undistributed sum or sums made and added during the year to their surplus or contingent fun
Insurance Co. v. Dunn
Insurance Company v. Dunn. 1. Where, after a suit has been properly removed from a State court into the Circuit Court of the United States, under the act of March 2d, 1867, ■which allows such removal, in certain eases specified by it, “at a
United States v. Gaussen
United States v. Gaussen. 1. Under the act of March 3d, 1797, enacting that in suits against delinquent revenue officers, “ a transcript from the books and proceedings of the treasury shall be evidence,” it is not necessary that every accou
Eldred v. Sexton
Eldred v. Sexton. The fundamental principle established by the act of Congress of April 24th, 1820, and since governing the matter of sales of the public lands, that private entries are not permitted until after the lands have been exposed
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