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Mitchell v. United States
Mitchell v. United States. A resident of a loyal State, who, after the 17th of July, 1861, and just after the late civil war had become flagrant, went, under a military pass of a Federal officer into the rebel States, and in November and De
Bailey v. Glover
Bailey, Assignee, v. Glover et al. 1. Tho policy of the Bankrupt law is speedy as well as equal distribution of the bankrupt’s assets among his creditors, and the one is almost as important as the other. Tho delays in the inferior courts co
Clarion Bank v. Jones
Clarion Bank v. Jones, Assignee. 1. In the construction of the Bankrupt Act, the fact that a debtor signed and delivered to his creditor, a judgment note payable one day after date, giving to him a right to enter the same of record and to i
Chambers County v. Clews
Chambers County v. Clews. 1. Though a court erroneously overrule a demurrer to a special plea specially demurred to, yet if on another plea the whole merits of the case are put in issue, the error in overruling the demurrer is not ground fo
Railroad Land Co. v. Courtright
Railroad Land Company v. Courtright. On the 35th of May, 1850, Congress passed an act entitled “An act making a grant of lands to the State of Iowa, in alternate sections, to aid in the construction of certain railroads in said State” (11 S
Jennisons v. Leonard
Jennisons v. Leonard. 1. When, under the act of March 3d, 1805, authorizing the parties to sub mit their case to the court for trial without the intervention of a jury, there have been no exceptions to rulings in the course of the trial and
Decatur Bank v. St. Louis Bank
Decatur Bank v. St. Louis Bank. 1. A bank at Decatur, Illinois, accredited B. with a bank at St. Louis, Missouri, saying that “ his drafts against shipments of cattle to the extent of $10,000 are hereby guaranteed.” Held, that hogs were inc
Terrell v. Allison
Terrell et al. v. Allison. 1. A writ of assistance is an appropriate process to issue from a court of equity to place a purchaser of mortgaged premises under its decree in possession after he has received the commissioner’s or master’s deed
Bailey v. Clark
Bailey, Collector, v. Clark et al. The term “capital,” employed by a banker in the business of banking, in the one hundred and tenth section of the Revenue Act of July 13th, 1866, does not include moneys borrowed by him from time to time te
Yonley v. Lavender
Yonley v. Lavender. Where a statute of a State places the whole estate, real and personal, of a decedent within the custody of the Probate Court of the county, so that the assets may be fairly and equally distributed among creditors, withou
Butler v. United States
Butler v. United States. A person who signs, as surety, a printed form of government bond, already signed by another as principal, but the spaces in which for names, dates, amounts, &e., remain blank, and who then gives it to the person who
Express Co. v. Caldwell
Express Company v. Caldwell. An agreement made by an express company, a common carrier in the habit of carrying small packages, that the company shall not be held liable for any loss of or damage to a package whatever, delivered to it, unle
Railroad Co. v. Smith
Railroad Company v. Smith et al. 1. The law does not require a party to pay for imperfect and defective work the price stipulated for a perfect structure; and when that price is demanded, will allow him to deduct the difference between that
Ochiltree v. Railroad Co.
Ochiltree v. The Railroad Company. 1. Where the constitution of a State makes each stockholder in a corporation “individually liable for its debts, over and above the stock owned by him,” in a further sum at least equal in amount to such st
Tilden v. Blair
Tilden v. Blair. 1. The acceptance of a draft dated in one State and drawn by a resident of such State on the resident of another, and by the latter accepted without funds and purely for the accommodation of the former, and then returned to
Ex parte Sawyer
Ex parte Sawyer. A decree of the Circuit Court, affirming, on appeal, a decree of the District Court, which had charged a respondent in admiralty with the payment of a sum of money specified, and decreeing that the appellee in the Circuit C
The Mohler
The Mohler. 1. Where, in a high or uncertain state of the wind, a vessel is approaching a part of the riv.er in which there are obstructions to the navigation— as, ex. gr.t the piers of a bridge crossing it — between which piers she cannot,
Littlefield v. Perry
Littlefield v. Perry. 1. Where one instrument, duly recorded in the Patent Office, contains in unmistakable language, an absolute conveyance by a patentee of his patent and inventions described (in this case applications of a principle of h
Garrison v. City of New York
Garrison v. The City of New York. 1. An act of the-legislature of the State of New York, passed in 1871, in relation to the widening and straightening of Broadway, in the city of New York, authorizing the Supreme Court of the State to vacat
Adams v. Adams
Adams v. Adams. 1. When on a bill by a wife against her husband to establish a deed of trust to a third party in her favor, and now in tbe husband’s possession, which deed she alleges that he executed and delivered, the husband, in an answe
Marsh v. Whitmore
Marsh v. Whitmore. .1. An attorney cannot be charged with negligence when he accepts as a correct exposition of the law a decision of the Supremo Court of his State upon the question of the liability of stockholders of corporations of the S
Minor v. Happersett
Minor v. Happersett. 1. The word “citizen ” is often used to convey the idea of membership in a nation. 2. In that sense, women, if born of citizen parents within the jurisdiction of the United States, have always been considered citizens o
Insurance Co. v. Sea
Insurance Company v. Sea. 1. The doctrine established and the rules laid down in Flanders v. Tweed (9 Wallace, 430), in Norris v. Jackson (lb. 125), and in other cases decided since, as to the proper mode of bringing here for review questio
Insurance Co. v. Mahone
Insurance Company v. Mahone. 1. The answer to a question put by an insurance company to an applicant for insurance, on a matter going to affect the risk, as written down by the agent of the company, when he takes the application for insuran
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