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Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Doe v. Childress

Doe v. Childress. Under the fourteenth section of the Bankrupt Act — which enacts that the ■ register shall convey to the assignee all the estate, real and personal, of the bankrupt, and that such assignment shall relate back to the commenc

88 U.S. 642 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Wood v. Bailey

Wood v. Bailey, Assignee. 1. Upcler the eighth section of the Bankrupt Act, which enacts that “no ap-' peal shall be allowed in any case from the District to the Circuit Court unless it is claimed and notice given thereof, ... to the assign

88 U.S. 640 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1874

Moore v. Mississippi

Moore v. Mississippi. 1. Where a case is brought here from the highest court of the State under the assumption that it is within section 709 of the Revised Statutes, if the record shows upon its face that a Federal question was not necessar

88 U.S. 636 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Estate Planning & Probate 1874

Jackson v. Ludeling

Jackson v. Ludeling. 1. When two or more persons have a common interest in a security, equity-will not allow one to appropriate it exclusively to himself, or to impair its worth to the others. Community of interest involves mutual obligatio

88 U.S. 616 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed 1874

National Bank v. Colby

National Bank v. Colby. 1. The property of a National bank organized under the act of Congress of June 3d, 1864, attached at the suit of an individual creditor, after 1he bank has become insolvent, cannot be subjected to sale for the paymen

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

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1874

The Lottawanna

The Lottawanna. 1. Whilst the general maritime law is the basis of the maritime law of the United States, as well as of other countries, it is only so far operative in this, or any country, as it is adopted by the laws and usages thereof. I

88 U.S. 558 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Personal Injury 1874

Edwards v. Elliott

Edwards v. Elliott et al. 1. Where the record before the court, on a case from a State court, shows a declaration, pleas to it, issue on them, verdict on those issues and judgment on the verdict, without allusion to any demurrer, the court

88 U.S. 532 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1874

Langdeau v. Hanes

Langdeau v. Hanes. The State of Virginia, which, prior to tho Revolution, asserted title to tho Northwest Territory, always respected the possessions and titles of the French and Canadian inhabitants who had doularcd themselves her citizens

88 U.S. 521 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1874

Case of Broderick's Will

Case of Broderick’s Will. 1. A court of equity has not jurisdiction to avoid a will or to set aside the probate thereof on the ground of fraud, mistake, or forgery; this being within the exclusive jurisdiction of tbe .courts of probate. 2.

88 U.S. 503 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Little v. Alexander

Little, Assignee, v. Alexander. 1. When the issue to he decided is whether a judgment against an insolvent was obtained with a view to give a preference, the intention of the bankrupt is the turning-point of the case, and all the circumstan

88 U.S. 500 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1874

Erie Railway Co. v. Pennsylvania

Erie Railway Company v. Pennsylvania. 1. A railroad 455 miles long, 42 miles of which were in a State other than that by which it was incorporated, held to he “doing business” within , the State where the 42 miles were, within the meaning o

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

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1874

Texas v. Chiles

Texas v. Chiles. 1. The purpose of the act of Congress (Revised Statutes, ?¿ 858) enacting that “in courts of the United States no witness shall be excluded ... in any civil action, because he is a party to or interested in the issue to be

88 U.S. 488 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1874

Grosholz v. Newman

Grosholz v. Newman. 1. A mere intention to make a lot adjoining one on which a man and wife have their dwelling — the two lots being separated only by a small alley— a part of a homestead, and the subsequent actual building of a kitchen on

88 U.S. 481 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Fox v. Gardner

Fox v. Gardner, Assignee. Where a debtor, knowing that his creditor is insolvent, accepts a draft drawn on him by snch creditor, the draft being drawn and accepted with the purpose of giving a preference, the transaction is a fraud on the B

88 U.S. 475 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1874

Railroad Co. v. Maryland

Railroad Company v. Maryland. 1. A stipulation in the charter of a railroad company, that the company shall pay to the State a bonus, or a portion of its earnings, is not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States. 2. Such a stipula

88 U.S. 456 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded 1874

Hill v. Mendenhall

Hill v. Mendenhall. 1. Where suit is brought on a record which shows that service was not made on the defendant, but which shows also that an appearance was entered for him by an attorney of the court, it is not allowable, under a plea of n

88 U.S. 453 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1874

Trist v. Child

Trist v. Child. 1. A mere personal agreement by one setting up a claim on the government, with another person to pay to such person a percentage of whatever sum Congress, through the instrumentality of such person, may appropriate in paymen

88 U.S. 441 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Dillon v. Barnard

Dillon v. Barnard et al 1. A demurrer to a bill in equity does not admit the correctness of averments as to the meaning of an instrument set forth in or annexed to the bill. 2. To create, for future services of a contractor, a lien upon par

88 U.S. 430 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1874

Michaels v. Post

Michaels et al. v. Post, Assignee. 1. Where one creditor has been induced by fraudulent representations ol another creditor, who wishes to get into his own hands all the property of their common debtor, to release his debt, and the second c

88 U.S. 398 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1874

Atlee v. Packet Co.

Atlee v. Packet Company. 1. A pier erected in the navigable water of the Mississippi River for the sole use of the riparian owner, as part of a boom for saw-logs, without license or authority of any kind, except such as may arise from his o

88 U.S. 389 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1874

Brown v. Brackett

Brown v. Brackett. A confirmation of a claim to land in California under a grant from the former Mexican government, obtained under the net of Congress of March 3d, 1851, is limited by the extent of the claim made ; nnd the decree of confir

88 U.S. 387 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Watson v. Taylor

Watson, Assignee, v. Taylor, In which the doctrines of the preceding case are affirmed and applied to the case of a note with warrant to confess judgment, given five months before the petition of bankruptcy was filed against the debtor; the

88 U.S. 378 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Clark v. Iselin

Clark, Assignee, v. Iselin. 1. When a person, borrowing money of another, pledges with that other a large number of bills receivable as collateral security for the loan (many of them overdue) the pledgee may properly hand them back to the d

88 U.S. 360 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1874

Hotchkiss v. National Banks

Hotchkiss v. National Banks. 1. In May, 1863, the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company issued coupon bonds, by each of which the company acknowledged its indebtedness to certain persons named, or bearer, in the sum of $1000, and promised

88 U.S. 354 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion