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Outcome n/a Employment Law 1873

The Rio Grande

The Rio Grande. 1. Five libellants, on separate libels in rem, got a decree in the Circuit Court ■ of one circuit against a vessel for sums each one under $2000, and so without right of appeal here, and costs. Before they could get satisfac

86 U.S. 178 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Employment Law 1873

Cropley v. Cooper

Cropley v. Cooper. A testator having five pieces of property’, to wit, insurance stock, a vacant city lot, a farm, corporation stock, and a city house, and little or no other, and having four children, to wit, three sons, two (A. and B.) ma

86 U.S. 167 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1873

Sawyer v. Prickett

Sawyer v. Prickett and Wife. ' A farmer and his wife on the line of a proposed country railroad, subscribed to stock in the road and mortgaged their farm, upon representations made to them by agents of the road and others, in a time of exci

86 U.S. 146 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1873

Carpenter v. Rannels

Carpenter v. Rannels. A. having, prior to July, 1801, an inchoate title to lands in the then French territory of what is now Missouri, agreed in July of that year to sell it, on certain conditions of improvement, required by the government,

86 U.S. 138 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Personal Injury 1873

The Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania. 1. A collision occurred in a very dense fog between a sailing bark and a large steamer, about two hundred miles from Sandy Hook, and therefore in the track of inward and outward bound vessels. The bark was under way moving

86 U.S. 125 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1873

Rees v. City of Watertown

Rees v. City of Watertown. Although a mandamus, and alias mandamus, and' pluries mandamus, commanding a city to levy and collect a tax upon the taxable property of its citizens in it, to pay judgments which the relator in the mandamus has o

86 U.S. 107 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1873

Robertson v. Carson

Robertson v. Carson. A. and B., executors in South Carolina, and authorized by their testator to sell all his real and personal estate, and to pay the proceeds to the testator’s sons, sold the lands to C. on mortgage. C. wishing to pay the

86 U.S. 94 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1873

Town of Queensbury v. Culver

Town of Queensbury v. Culver. 1. There being nothing in the constitution of the State of New York which makes unconstitutional an act of the legislature authorizing the people of a town to decide whether they will donate its bonds to a rail

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

Reversed 1873

Morgan's Executor v. Gay

Morgan’s Executor v. Gay. 1. Where a citizen of one State as indorsee of inland bills, drawn or accepted by a citizen of another — the plaintiff claiming through the indorsement of the payee, or of the payee and subsequent indorsors — sues

86 U.S. 81 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1873

The Falcon

The Falcon. 1. A steamer running at tbe rate of from eight to ten knots an hour, on a bright moonlight night, in an open bay, with nothing to mislead her, condemned for the loss of a schooner sailing with a six-knot breeze, whose only fault

86 U.S. 75 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1873

The Lucille

The Lucille. 1. An appeal in admiralty from the District to the Circuit Court in effect vacates the decree of the District Court, and a new trial in all respects, and a new decree, are to be had in the Circuit Court. The latter must execute

86 U.S. 73 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1873

Crews v. Brewer

Crews v. Brewer. The doctrine of the preceding case reaffirmed. Declared further, and in explanation, that a mere report of the evidence is not such a special finding or authorized statement of the case as will allow this court to pass upon

86 U.S. 70 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Insurance Law 1873

Cooper v. Omohundro

Cooper, Executor, v. Omohundro. The case of Folsom v. The Insurance Company (18 Wallace, 237), and the numerous cases there cited, p. 244, affirmed, and the doctrine again declared, that where a jury is waived and the issues of fact submitt

86 U.S. 65 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1873

Railroad Co. v. Church

Railroad Company v. Church. 1. A writ of error lies from this court to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on a judgment confirming an assessment for damages hy the use of the street in front of the church of defendants in error,

86 U.S. 62 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1873

Knowles v. Gaslight & Coke Co.

Knowles v. The Gaslight and Coke Company. 1. A return to a summons by the sheriff that be has served the defendant personally therewith is sufficient, without stating that the service was made in his county. This will be presumed. 2. But, i

86 U.S. 58 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded 1873

The Wenona

The Wenona. A steamer condemned for a collision with a sailing vessel, the wheelsman, mate, captain, and other witnesses on the sailing vessel swearing positively to courses and distances and times immediately prior to the collision, and th

86 U.S. 41 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1873

Bulkley v. United States

Bulkley v. United States. A. contracted with the government to transport a large quantity of army supplies, the government agreeing that in order that he should be in readiness to meet its demands for transportation due notice should be giv

86 U.S. 37 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1873

Zantzingers v. Gunton

Zantzingers v. Gunton. 1. Although a bank by statute, or the trustees, on the expiration thereof, ■who liquidate its affairs, may be deprived of power to take or hold real estate, this does not prevent either’s making an arrangement through

86 U.S. 32 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1873

McCarthy v. Mann

McCarthy v. Mann. A., on the 13th of February, 1850, made an entry and location, which proved to be wholly void, of a land warrant on public land ; and then conveyed to B. by deed with full covenants. B. conveyed to O. hy a similar sort of

86 U.S. 20 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1873

Salomon v. United States

Salomon v. United States. 1. The act of June, 1862, requiring contracts for military supplies to be in writing, is not infringed by the proper officer having charge of such matter accepting delivery of such supplies after the day stipulated

86 U.S. 17 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1873

Stowe v. United States

Stowe v. United States. Where a party gives to another a power of attorney, in blank, and defectively witnessed, authorizing-“ to collect and receive any and all moneys due to him ” from the government under an agreement specified, “and to

86 U.S. 13 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1873

Hodges v. Vaughan

Hodges v. Vaughan. When the only defect in a transcript sent to this court is that the clerk has not appended to it his certificate that it contains the full record .(there being no allegation of contumacy), a certiorari is not the proper r

86 U.S. 12 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1873

Barings v. Dabney

Barings v. Dabney. 1. Though the stock of a bank be altogether .owned by a State, if the bank is insolvent its assets cannot be appropriated by legislative act or otherwise to pay the debts of the State, as distinguished from the debts of t

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

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1873

Hicks v. Kelsey

Hicks v. Kelsey. The mere change in an instrument or machine of one material into anothe—as of wood, or of wood strengthened with iron, into iron alone^is net “invention” in the sense of the Patent Acts, and therefore is not the subject of

85 U.S. 670 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion