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Affirmed 1874

Lee County v. Clews

LEE COUNTY v. CLEWS. ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA. No. 79. Argued aud submitted November 30, 1874. Decided December 21, 1874. Chambers County v. Clews, 21 Wall. 317, followed. Mr. R. T.

154 U.S. 609 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1874

Northwestern Union Packet Co. v. Viles

NORTHWESTERN UNION PACKET CO. v. VILES. ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. No. 70. Argued and submitted November 17 and 18, 1874. Decided December 7, 1874. Northwestern Union Packet Co. v.

154 U.S. 608 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1874

American Wood-Paper Co. v. Fibre Disintegrating Co.

The Wood-Paper Patent. The American Wood-Paper Co. v. The Fibre Disintegrating Co. The Fibre Disintegrating Co. v. The American Wood-Paper Co. 1. A manufacture or a product of a process may be no novelty, and, therefore, unpatentable; while

90 U.S. 566 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1874

Collar Co. v. Van Dusen

Collar Company v. Van Dusen. 1. The purpose of a reissue is to render effectual the actual invention for which the original patent should have been granted, not to introduce new features. Therefore, in an application for reissue parol testi

90 U.S. 530 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1874

Tremaine v. Hitchcock & Co.

The Tremolo Patent. Tremaine v. Hitchcock & Co. Hitchcock & Co. v. Tremaine. 1. An amendment which changed the character of a bill, allowed even after final decree, the circumstances being peculiar and the cause having been, in fact, tried

90 U.S. 518 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1874

United States v. Shrewsbury

United States v. Shrewsbury. Where, under a contract entered into between the government and a transporter of military stores, in the wilds of the West, it was provided that a board of survey, composed of military officers, should on the ar

90 U.S. 508 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Insurance Law 1874

Railroad Co. v. Wiswall

Railroad Company v. Wiswall. The order of a Circuit Court remanding, for want of jurisdiction to hear it, a case removed from a State court into it, is not a “ final judgment ” in that sense which authorizes a writ of error. The remedy of t

90 U.S. 507 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded 1874

Ex parte Medway

Ex parte Medway. Where on certain facts found by the Court of Claims — it refusing to find as a fact a certain allegation which the petitioner in the suit requested it to find — that court has given judgment against the petitioner, and the

90 U.S. 504 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1874

Moran v. Prather

Moran et al. v. Prather. 1. Where a firm, with several persons styling themselves, as a firm in this ease did, “ creditors of the steamboat B.,” agreed to release P. (owner of parts of the boat, the rest being owned by two other persons) “

90 U.S. 492 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1874

Green v. Green

Green v. Green. Where a husband and wife conveyed lands in trust for the sole and separate use of the wife and for the children of the two parties, during the wife’s life in absolute property, as if she were a feme sole, and free and clear

90 U.S. 486 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1874

Hepburn v. School Directors

Hepburn v. The School Directors. 1. Under the act of Congress of February 10th, 1868, enacting that the legislature of each State may direct the manner of taxing all the shares of National banks located within said State, subject to the res

90 U.S. 480 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1874

Grand Tower Co. v. Phillips

Grand Tower Company v. Phillips et al. A company having coal-mines at a place on the Mississippi, eighty miles above Cairo, agreed to deliver 150,000 tons of coal, the product of its mines, to P. & S., at $3 a ton during the year 1870, in e

90 U.S. 471 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Civil Rights 1874

Lewis v. Cocks

Lewis v. Cocks. 1. A bill in equity is not the proper means to recover possession of land, there being no fraud in the ease, nor other matter specially the subject of equitable cognizance, and a party cannot by any colorable suggestion of f

90 U.S. 466 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1874

The Rio Grande

The Rio Grande. 1. In a proceeding in rem, a valid seizure and actual control of the res by the marshal gives jurisdiction, and an improper removal of it from his custody, as by an order of court improvidently made, does not destroy the jur

90 U.S. 458 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1874

Crosby v. Buchanan

Crosby v. Buchanan. 1. A., in 1812, made a deed to V. conveying to him valuable estates, Y. by a separate instrument, agreeing that if A. would, within live years, pay to him a certain sum ($14,500), he would convey to A.’s children, then i

90 U.S. 420 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1874

Fashnacht v. Frank

Fashnacht v. Frank. Where in a suit pending before it a State court dissolves an injunction (previously granted by it on an allegation by the mortgagor, that the mortgagee had agreed to give him further time) against proceeding to sell mort

90 U.S. 416 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1874

United States v. Williamson

United States v. Williamson. An officer of the army who is ordered, even on his own request, to proceed to a particular place, including his home, and “ there await orders,” reporting thence by letter to the Adjutant-General of the Army and

90 U.S. 411 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Dismissed Tax Law 1874

Railroad Co. v. Swasey

Railroad Company v. Swasey. 1. A decree of foreclosure and sale is not “final” in the sense which allows an appeal from it so long as the amount due upon the debt must be determined, and the property to be sold ascertained and defined. 2. H

90 U.S. 405 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1874

Donovan v. United States

Donovan v. United States. Surveyors of ports performing the duties of collectors of the customs in ports other than those ports enumerated in the fifth section of the act of May 7th, 1822 (3 Stat. at Large, 693), that is to say of ports oth

90 U.S. 383 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1874

Smythe v. Fiske

Smythe v. Fiske. Under the Tariff Act of July 30th, 1864 (13 Stat. at Large, 210), “silk ties” are chargeable with a duty of 50 per cent, ad valorem. They fall under the closing words of the eighth section of that act which enacts “ that on

90 U.S. 374 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1874

Smith v. Adsit

Smith v. Adsit. Where a complainant alleging himself to be a bond fide purchaser, and setting out a case in the highest State court for equitable relief against a sale to other parties xvhich'an owner of land had undertaken to make, alleged

90 U.S. 368 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1874

Reedy v. Scott

Reedy v. Scott. 1. Though as a general rule suits for infringement of a patent, are defeated by the surrender of the patent, and a new original bill — not a supplemental bill — is the proper sort of bill by which to proceed for an infringem

90 U.S. 352 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1874

Scholey v. Rew

Scholey v. Rew. 1. The “succession tax,” imposed by the acts of June 30th, 1864, and July 13th, 1866, on every “devolution of title to any real estate,” was not a “direct tax,” within the meaning of the Constitution; but an “impost or excis

90 U.S. 331 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1874

Slack v. Tucker & Co.

Slack v. Tucker & Co. 1 Under the seventy-ninth section of the Internal Revenue Act of 1864, as amended by the act of July 13th, 1866 (14 Statutes at Large), persons who sell goods in their own name, at their own store, on commission, and h

90 U.S. 321 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion