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Shrewsbury v. United States
Shrewsbury v. United States. A quartermaster contracted at Port Leavenworth with A. that he, A., should transport to Port Union, from Port Leaven worth, all the military stores and supplies for which the quartermaster’s department might req
Jones v. United States
Jones et al. v. United States. On a suit by the government against the sureties of a postmaster on his official bond, it is no defence that the government, “through their agent, the Auditor of the Treasury of the Post Office Department, had
Davis v. Bilsland
Davis v. Bilsland. 1. The case of Horribuckle v. Toombs (supra, p. 648), affirmed. 2. Under the mechanic’s lien law and Civil Practice Act of Montana, a mechanic who has completed his claim hy filing a lien, may assign it to another, who ma
Hershfield v. Griffith
Hershfield v. Griffith. The preceding case affirmed, the case here having been a proceeding to obtain satisfaction of a mortgage. Appeal from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. Griffith sued Starr in one of the District Territor
Hornbuckle v. Toombs
Hornbuckle v. Toombs. 1. The practice, pleadings, and forms and modes of proceeding of the Territorial courts, as well as their respective jurisdictions, were intended by Congress to be left to the legislative action of the Territorial asse
Dandelet v. Smith
Dandelet v. Smith. 1. Under the twentieth section of the Internal Revenue Act of June 30th, 1864, as amended by the ninth section of the act of July 13th, 1866, it is not necessary that an assessor, in making a reassessment for deficiencies
Bartholow v. Bean
Bartholow v. Bean. A payment by an insolvent, which would otherwise be void as a preference under sections thirty-five and thirty-nine of the Bankrupt law, is not excepted out of the provisions of those sections because it was made to a hol
Gray v. Rollo
Gray v. Rollo. 1. Set-off is enforced in equity only where there are mutual debts or mutual credits, or where there exists some equitable consideration or agreement between the parties which would render it unjust not to allow a set-off. 2.
St. Clair County v. Lovingston
St. Clair County v. Lovingston. No judgment is final which does not terminate the litigation between the parties. A judgment reversing the judgment of an inferior court, and remanding the cause for such other and further proceedings as to l
Davenport v. Dows
Davenport v. Dows. Although a stockholder in a corporation may bring a suit when the corpora- . tion refuses, yet, as in such ease the suit can be maintained only on the ground that the rights of the corporation are involved, the corporatio
Grant v. Strong
Grant v. Strong. A builder’s lien held not to have attached where a builder took a real security for payment of the work which he was to do, and afterwards, the work being all done, gave it up and took a more note. Appeal from the Supreme C
Espy v. Bank of Cincinnati
Espy v. Bank of Cincinnati. A check drawn hy S. & M. on the bank'for $26.50, in favor of H., was raised to $3920, and the payee’s name changed to B. H. & Co., and offered to the latter hy a stranger in payment for bonds and gold purchased b
The Favorita
The Favorita. 1. A large ocean steamer, running at the rate of eight or ten miles an hour, and close in with the Brooklyn shore, on the East River, and across the mouths of the ferry slips there, in order to get the benefit of the eddy, con
Bullard v. Bank
Bullard v. Bank. 1. A National hank, organized under the National Banking Act of 1864, cannot, even by provisions framed with a direct view to that effect in its articles of association and by direct by-laws, acquire .a lien on its own stoc
Moore v. Robbins
Moore v. Robbins. A decree in a court below, reversing a decree where, on a bill to foreclose a mortgage, a court below it had decreed in favor of the complainant, and “ remanding ” the pase to such inferior court for “ such other and furth
Case of the Sewing Machine Companies
Case of the Sewing Machine Companies. A case in which the plaintiff is a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and two of the defendants are citizens of other States, a third defendant being a citizen of the same State as the plain
Town of Ohio v. Marcy
Town of Ohio v. Marcy. A judgment affirmed because there was no question of law which this court could consider, in a case whore a trial by jury was waived in writing and the case submitted to the court, where the finding of the court was g
Tacey v. Irwin
Tacey v. Irwin. Under the act of June 7th, 1862, “ for the collection of the direct tax in insurrectionary districts,” &e., as construed in Bennett v. Hunter (9 Wallace, 326), a tender by a relative of the owner of the tax due upon property
Boyce v. Tabb
Boyce v. Tabb. 1. It is no defence to a, suit brought on a promissory note executed in Louisiana, in February, 1861, by the holder against the maker, to allege and prove that such note.was given as the price of slaves sold to the maker. 2.
Chaffee & Co. v. United States
Chaffee & Co. v. United States. 1. The action of debt lies for a statutory penalty, because the sum demanded is certain, but though in form ex contractu it is founded in fact upon a tort. The necessity of establishing a joint liability in s
Bean v. Beckwith
Bean v. Beckwith et al. 1. Whenever one justifies an'act which in itself constitutes at common law a wrong, upon the process, order, or authority of another, he must set forth substantially and in a traversable form the process, order, or a
Clarke v. Boorman's Executors
Clarke v. Boorman’s Executors. 1. The construction of a will on the question of estate in fee, or life estate with vested remainder, left undecided, with comments on the inefficiency of rules of decision and decided cases as guides. 2. A vi
Steamboat Co. v. Collector
Steamboat Company v. The Collector. 1. Under the ninth section of the act of July 13th, 1866, laying on the owners of, steamboats a tax of “ 2£ per cent, of the gross receipts jrom passengers,” the owners of a,night-boat which receives a ce
Glenn v. Johnson
Glenn et al. v. Johnson et al. The personal 'acquisitions of a wife, in Georgia, being by statute of that ■ State not subject to the debts of her husband, her separate earnings from her individual labor and business, carried on with his con
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