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Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Ross v. Jones

Ross, Administrator, v. Jones. 1. The late civil war was flagrant in Arkansas from April, 1861, till April, 1866, and the statutes of limitation did not run during that term. This principle applies to suits between persons in different Stat

89 U.S. 576 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1874

Tucker v. Ferguson

Tucker v. Ferguson et al. 1. Congress, by act of 1857, granted public lands to a State, to be “ held” by it, to aid in the construction of a railroad through the State, the road, when made, to be and remain a public highway for the use of t

89 U.S. 527 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Robinson v. Elliott

Robinson et al. v. Elliott. 1. Under the Statute of Frauds in Indiana, which enacts in. “Section 10. That no assignment of goods by way of mortgage shall bé valid against any other person than the parties thereto, when such goods are not de

89 U.S. 513 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Piatt's Administrator v. United States

Piatt’s Administrator v. United States. Where a contractor has large claims on different accounts against the United States, and the United States have a counter claim of fixed though of much less amount against him, and arrest him and put

89 U.S. 496 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Employment Law 1874

United States v. Saunders

United States v. Saunders. 1 A. statute 5s to be interpreted not only by its exact words, but also by its apparent general purpose. If its general purpose have plain reference to one class of persons, it will not include a single individual

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

Affirmed Tax Law 1874

Taylor v. Thomas

Taylor v. Thomas. After the late rebellion in the Southern States had broken out into war, and the government had blockaded all the Southern ports so as to prevent the shipment of tho staples of the South, including especially cotton, from

89 U.S. 479 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1874

Hunnewell v. Cass County

Hunnewell v. Cass County. 1. Under the act of July 2d, 1864 (13 Stat. at Large, 364), which gave to the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad Company every alternate section of the public lands, to the amount of ten alternate sections per

89 U.S. 464 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1874

Railway Co. v. McShane

Railway Company v. McShane et al. 1. The Railway Company v. Prescott (16 Wallace, 603) modified and overruled so far as it asserts the contingent right of pre-emption in lands granted to the Pacific Railroad Company, to constitute an exempt

89 U.S. 444 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Fox v. Seal

Fox v. Seal. 1. Under, the joint resolution of the legislature of Pennsylvania, passed January 21st, 1843, and which declares that

89 U.S. 424 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Estate Planning & Probate 1874

United States v. Farragut

United States v. Farragut. Captors (Admiral Farragut and others) having filed a libel in the admiralty for prizes taken below New Orleans in April, 1862, they and the government agreed to refer the cause to the “final determination and awar

89 U.S. 406 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Amsinck v. Bean

Amsinck v. Bean, Assignee. 1. The assignee in bankruptcy of the estate of an individual partner of a debtor copartnership, cannot maintain a suit to recover back money previously paid to a creditor of the copartnership, upon the ground that

89 U.S. 395 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Morgan v. Campbell

Morgan v. Campbell, Assignee. 1. Under tbe Landlord and Tenant Act of Illinois, which enacts in its seventh section that— “In all cases of distress for rent it shall be lawful for tbe landlord, by himself, his agent, or attorney,- to seize

89 U.S. 381 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1874

Woodson v. Murdock

Woodson v. Murdock et al. 1. The provision of the constitution of Missouri, which ordains— “ The General Assembly shall have no powor, for any purpose whatever, to release tho lien hold by the State upon any railroad — ” a provision having

89 U.S. 351 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1874

Railroad Co. v. Pollard

Railroad Company v. Pollard. 1. Stokes v. Saltonstall (13 Peters, 181) affirmed; and on a suit for injury to person, against a railway company carrying passengers, the doctrine again declared to be that if the passenger is in the exercise o

89 U.S. 341 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Estate Planning & Probate 1874

Stephen v. Beall

Stephen v. Beall et ux. 1. Where one of four joint tenants makes a deed of trust (a mortgage) of land conveyed to the four — the deed of trust purporting to convey the whole estate — it is not necessary, on a bill filed to have the land sol

89 U.S. 329 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1874

Railway Co. v. Ramsey

Railway Company v. Ramsey. Although consent of the parties to a suit cannot give jurisdiction to the courts of the United States, the parties may admit the existence of facts which show jurisdiction, and the courts may act judicially upon s

89 U.S. 322 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1874

Gavinzel v. Crump

Gavinzel v. Crump. In November, 1863, during the rebellion, Confederate notes being then scmuch depressed in market value that in Kichmond, Virginia, $3260 of them were worth but $204 in gold coin, G., a Swiss, at the time resident in Kichm

89 U.S. 308 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1874

Mechanics' & Traders' Bank v. Union Bank

Mechanics’ and Traders’ Bank v. Union Bank. 1. The Constitution did not prohibit the creation by military authority of courts for the trial of civil causes during the civil war in conquered portions of the insurgent States. The establishmen

89 U.S. 276 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1874

Hampton v. Rouse

Hampton v. Rouse. 1. Under a statute which enacts that the “owner,” may within a time named, redeem land sold for taxes, a redemption may properly be made by a person who has been decreed a bankrupt, the lands having been his. In the case h

89 U.S. 263 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1874

Connoyer v. Schaeffer

Connoyer et al. v. Schaeffer. 1. Under proceedings before the boards of commissioners appointed under the act of March 2d, 1805, for ascertaining and adjusting the claims to land embraced in the Louisiana purchase, and the several subsequen

89 U.S. 254 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1874

French v. Hay

French, Trustee, v. Hay. When, in a case which is properly removed from a State court, under one of the acts of Congress relating to removals, into the Circuit Court of the United States, a complainant getting a decree in the State court an

89 U.S. 250 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

French v. Hay

French, Trustee, v. Hay et al. 1. A. filed a bill against B., a purchaser of property at a sale made by O., a trustee to sell, charging both B. nnd-C. with collusion and fraud in the sale, and praying discovery from both parties, that the s

89 U.S. 238 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1874

French v. Hay

French v. Hay. In 1859 A. lent to B„, who was largely interested in an embarrassed railroad, $5000 to buy certain judgments against the road, and B. having bought, in 1859 and the early part of 1860, judgments to the amount of $31,000, assi

89 U.S. 231 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Tax Law 1874

Bailey v. Magwire

Bailey v. Magwire, Collector. 1. A claim of exemption from county and municipal taxation cannot be supported, any more than a claim from State taxation, except upon language so strong as that, fairly interpreted, no room is left for controv

89 U.S. 215 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion