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Remanded 1873

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

85 U.S. 471 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1873

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

85 U.S. 457 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 436 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1873

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

85 U.S. 430 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 421 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Employment Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 417 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1873

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

85 U.S. 414 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1873

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

85 U.S. 409 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 391 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1873

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

85 U.S. 375 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 350 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1873

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

85 U.S. 342 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Personal Injury 1873

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

85 U.S. 332 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 322 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Estate Planning & Probate 1873

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

85 U.S. 317 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1873

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

85 U.S. 307 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Personal Injury 1873

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

85 U.S. 272 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1873

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

85 U.S. 255 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 237 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Civil Rights 1873

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

85 U.S. 233 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 206 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Employment Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 163 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Employment Law 1873

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

85 U.S. 156 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1873

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

85 U.S. 151 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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