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Railroad Co. v. Orr
Railroad Company v. Orr. Where .a railroad corporation, by mortgage, whose sufficiency to secure what it is given to secure is doubtful, Mortgages its .property directly to all its bondholders by name, to secure specifically t.o each the am
Thompson v. Whitman
Thompson v. Whitman. 1. Neither the constitutional provision, that full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State, nor the act of Congress passed in pursuance th
Lucas v. Brooks
Lucas v. Brooks. 1. A person in possession of land wbo takes a lease from another who has bought and claims the land leased, is estopped from denying the title of such other person, or showing that such person was but trustee of the land fo
Brent v. Maryland
Brent v. Maryland. 1. Where in a proceeding to sell the real estate of a decedent for the payment of his debts the solicitor who presents the petition for ¿he decree of sale is himself appointed trustee to make the sale, and himself becomes
Miltenberger v. Cooke
Miltenberger v. Cooke. 1. "When a collector of internal revenue in a rural district of Mississippi— where, owing to the lawless condition in which the rebellion, then but recently suppressed, had left the region, it was not safe to have gol
Ex parte State Insurance
Ex parte State Insurance Company. 1 Prior to the act of March 3d, 1873, the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama'was possessed of circuit court powers, and among these was the right to hear and decide eases
Eunson v. Dodge
Eunson v. Dodge. Where a person during the original term of a patent bought from one who had no right to sell it, a machine which was an infringement of the patent, and afterwards himself bought the patent for the county where he was using
Tiffany v. National Bank
Tiffany v. National Bank of Missouri. Under the thirtieth section of the National Banking Act, which enacts that National banks “may take, receive, reserve, and charge oii any loan ... interest at the rate allowed by the laws of the State o
Trask v. Maguire
Trask v. Maguire. A railroad company exempted .by tbe legislature of a State from taxation accepted .bonds for large sums of money from the State by way of loan, the statute which authorized the transaction declaring that the accept- - anee
Tiffany v. Boatman's Institution
Tiffany v. Boatman’s Institution. 1. Although a loan of money may be usurious and the contract to return it void, yet, in the absence of statutory enactment, it does not follow that the borrower, after he has once repaid the money, nor even
Galpin v. Page
Galpin v. Page. 1. Where in suits brought in a State court to settle an alleged copartnership between the plaintiff’s and a deceased partner, the Supreme Court of the State decided that there had been no sufficient service on an infant defe
Mulhall v. Keenan
Mulhall v. Keenan et al. 1. "Where, oh a suit to recover a balance of a draft claimed because consignments of cattle against which the draft was drawn, have not proved adequate to protect it, the question is whether the draft was drawn unde
Cook v. Tullis
Cook v. Tullis. 1. The ratification by one of the unauthorized act of another operates, upon the act ratified precisely as though authority to do the act had been previously given, except where the rights of third parties have intervened be
Westray v. United States
Westray v. United States. 1. Under the “act to increase duties on imports.” &c., passed June 30th, 1864,. the collector is under no obligation to give notice to the importer of his liquidation of duties on merchandise imported. The importer
Snow v. United States
Snow v. United States. Under the organic act of September 9th, 1850, organizing the Territory of Utah, the attorney-general of the Territory, elected by the legislature thereof, and not the district attorney of the United States, appointed
Lamb v. Davenport
Lamb v. Davenport. 1. Unless forbidden by some positive law, contracts made by actual settlers on the public lands concerning tbeir possessory rights, and concerning the title to be acquired in future from the United States, are valid as be
Atkins v. Disintegrating Co.
Atkins v. The Disintegrating Company. 1. An entry on the record of an admiralty case, that on the return of a process of attachment Mr. B. “ appears for the respondent, and has a week to perfect an appearance and to answer,” is an appearanc
Henshaw v. Bissell
Henshaw et al. v. Bissell. 1. In an action of ejectment, where both parties claim the premises in controversy under patents of the United States issued upon a confirmation of grants of land in California made by the former Mexican governmen
Insurance Co. v. Folsom
Insurance Company v. Folsom. 1. The doctrine reasserted, as often adjudged in thjs court before, that where ■ a case is tried by the Circuit Court under the act of March 3d, 1865, if the finding be a general one, this court will only review
Railway Co. v. Allerton
Railway Company v. Allerton. "Where the charter of á corporation says that the capital stock of the corporation shall be a sum named, as ex. gr., $100.000, “ and may be increased from time to time at the pleasure of the said corporation,” t
Minot v. Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad
The Delaware Railroad Tax. [Minot v. The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company and others.] 1. Although it has been repeatedly held by this court that the legislature of a State may exempt particular parcels of property or
Ex parte Lange
Ex parte Lange. X. The doctrine of this court affirmed, and the cases in support of it cited, that'where a prisoner shows that he is held under a judgment of a Federal court, made without authority of law, the Supreme Court will, by writs o
Day v. Micou
Day v. Micou. 1. Under the act of July 17th, 1862, known as the Confiscation Act, and the Joint Resolution, of the same date, explanatory of it, only the life estate of the person for whose offence the land has been seized, is subject to co
Batesville Institute v. Kauffman
Batesville Institute v. Kauffman. 1. Where .the assignees of a claim on a third party have parted completely with their interest in it. and, by a transfer, vested the entire title in others, they are not necessary parties in an equity proce
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