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Blake v. National Banks
Blake v. National Banks. 1. Under the Internal Revenue Act of July, 1870, which enacts that “there shall be levied and collected for and during the year 1871, a tax of 2J per cent, on the amount of all interest paid by corporations, and on
Gregory v. McVeigh
Gregory v. McVeigh. 1. "Where, by the laws of a State, an appeal can be taken from an inferior court of the State to the highest court of the same, only with leave of this latter or of a judge thereof, and that leave has been refused ir. an
Sandusky v. National Bank
Sandusky v. National Bank. A petition addressed to the District Court “ in bankruptcy sitting,” By a person who has been decreed an involuntary bankrupt, “ for a review of the record of the said proceedings in bankruptcy, and that the decre
Thomas & Co. v. Wooldridge
Thomas & Co. v. Wooldridge. 1. Tbe court will not, generally speaking, refuse to bear a motion to dismiss, before the term to which, in regular order, the record ought to bo returned, if the record be printed and'the rules of court about mo
Ambler v. Whipple
Ambler v. Whipple. A rehearing will not be granted on the ground that the record on which the case was heard was imperfect, it appearing by an examination of the parts which on the original hearing were left out, but which were now brought
Mason v. Graham
Mason v. Graham. 1. The patent of E. H. Graham, of October 16th, 1860, reissued May 28th, 1867, for “picker-staff motion in looms,” has no relation to the mere form of a journal-bearing arm, nor does it consist in arranging a journal-bearin
The Collector v. Richards
The Collector v. Richards. The act of May 22d, 1846, enacting that “ in all computations at the customhouse, the franc of France .. . shall be estimated at eighteen cents and six mills,” is repealed by the act of March 3d, 1873, “to establi
Brown v. Guild
The Corn-planter Patent. [Brown v. Guild. Same v. Selby.] 1. Five reissues were granted on a surrendered patent, granted originally in 1853 to G. W. Brown, for improvements in corn-planting machines. On two bills, one against Bergen & Sisso
The Sea Gull
The Sea Gull. A steamer held to be exclusively responsible for a collision with a sailing-vessel ; the collision having occurred on a night when the stars were plainly visible, and when, though a little haze was on the water, the night was
Stickney v. Wilt
Stickney, Assignee, v. Wilt. 1. A proceeding under the Bankrupt Act in which by petition in form, the assignee sets forth articulately that A., B , C., &c., claim liens against the bankrupt’s estate, the validity of each of which liens be,
Randall v. Kreiger
Randall v. Kreiger. A. and wife, residents of the State of New York, executed a power of attorney to B. to sell lands in Minnesota Territory of which A., the husband, was seized. The power was executed and acknowledged by both parties, the
Ray v. Norseworthy
Ray v. Norseworthy. Although District Courts of the United States, sitting in bankruptcy, have power to order a sale of the real estate of the bankrupt which he has mortgaged, in such a way as to discharge it of all liens, and although as a
Lewis v. Hawkins
Lewis v. Hawkins et al. 1. Where a party agrees to sell land to another and as consideration therefor the vendee gives his promissory notes payable at a future date named,.and the vendor gives his bond conditioned that on the payment of the
Secombe v. Railroad Co.
Secombe v. Railroad Company. 1. When the question is whether, under the constitution and laws of a particular State, a company professing to be a corporation, is legally so, this court will receive as conclusive of the question, the decisio
Insurance Co. v. Young's Administrator
Insurance Company v. Young’s Administrator. A., of San Francisco, aged twenty-six, applied, on the 5th of June, 1867, to the agent there of a New York life insurance company to insure his life, the money to be payable “ at forty-five, or de
The Teutonia
The Teutonia. Two steam vessels, one an iron steamship (an ocean vessel of twenty-five hundred tons), coming from sea up the Mississippi to New Orleans, and the other a small river steamer of one hundred and' thirty-five tons, trading up an
The Dexter
The Dexter. 1. The rule of navigation prescribed by the act of Congress of April 29th, 1864, “ for preventing collisions on the water,” which requires “ when sailing-ships are meeting end on, or nearly so, the helms of both shall be put to
County of St. Clair v. Lovingston
County of St. Clair v. Lovingston. 1. "Where a survey begins “on the bank of a river” and is carried thence “to a point in the river,” the river-bank being straight and running according to this line, the tract surveyed is bounded by the ri
United States v. Villalonga
United States v. Villalonga. Under the Abandoned and Captured Property Act, which gives to “ the owner ” of any such property a right, after it has been sold by the government, to recover the proceeds of it in the Treasury of the United Sta
The Great Republic
The Great Republic. 1. In cases of collision, where there is a great conflict of testimony, the court must be governed chiefly by undeniable and leading facts, if such exist in the case. The court so governed in this case. 2. A pilot, when
The Clarita
The Clarita and The Clara. 1. The owners of a vessel in flames towed by a tug and no longer in command of her own captain and crew, are not liable for injury done by her to another vessel, by the negligence of the captain of the tug; the sa
United States v. O'Grady
United States v. O’Grady. When the government means to set up any counterclaim to the claim of a party suing in the Court of Claims, as ex. gr., when on a suit under the Captured and Abandoned Property Act, to recover the proceeds of cotton
Bailey v. Railroad Co.
Bailey v. Railroad Company. 1. In December, 1868, a railroad company, which was in existence in 1862, and before, but which by its charter was limited to 10 per cent, dividends on its capital, now all taken, reciting that it had “ hitherto
Railroad Co. v. Androscoggin Mills
Railroad Company v. Androscoggin Mills. The Evansville and Crawfordsville Railroad Company, of Indiana, owning a railroad running from the south line of that State northward to another point in it, and which made a line of road by which cot
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