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Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1874

Clark v. Iowa City

Clark v. Iowa City. .1. The statute of limitations of Iowa, which bars actions upon all written contracts within ten years after the cause of action thereon-has accrued, commences to run against actions upon coupons for interest annexed to

87 U.S. 583 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Tax Law 1874

Cannon v. New Orleans

Cannon v. New Orleans. 1. An ordinance of the city of Now Orleans, which demands of all steamboats which shall moor or land in any part of the port of New Orleans a sum measured by the tonnage of the vessel, is a tonnage tax w.ithin the mea

87 U.S. 577 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Longstreth v. Pennock

Longstreth v. Pennock. The Pennsylvania statute of June 16th, 1836, which provides that where property upon demised premises, and liable to distraint, is seized on execution and sold, the,officer making the sale shall pay the rent (provided

87 U.S. 575 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1874

Gillette v. Bullard

Gillette v. Bullard. In an action on the bond given on appeal from the District Court to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana, the plea was that the defendant had prosecuted a writ of error from the judgment of the Territorial cour

87 U.S. 571 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1874

Insurance Co. v. Colt

Insurance Company v. Colt. 1.- When the charter of an insurance company in the same clause which authorized its president and directors to make insurance against fire, and for that purpose to execute such “ contracts, bargains, agreements,

87 U.S. 560 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1874

Ambler v. Whipple

Ambler v. Whipple. 1. Where an instrument prepared by one partner for signature by his co-partner, with whom ho has'fallen out and quarrelled, contains mutual' releases and assignments — each being the consideration of the other— it snould,

87 U.S. 546 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Personal Injury 1874

Express Co. v. Ware

Express Company v. Ware. 1. This court will not examine evidence to ascertain whether a jury was justified. in finding, as it has done, on an issue of fact. 2. Where a statute of limitation enacts that á defendant’s absence from the State w

87 U.S. 543 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Personal Injury 1874

Packet Co. v. Clough

Packet Company v. Clough. 1. Under.tlie act of Congress of July 6th, 1862, enacting that “ the laws of the ¡State in which the court shall' bé held., shall be the rule of decision as to -the competency of witnesses in the courts of the Unit

87 U.S. 528 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed 1874

Pollard v. Bailey

Pollard v. Bailey. Where by the charter of a bank, stockholders are “ bound respectively for all the debts of the bank in proportion to .their stock holden therein,” one creditor cannot sue a stockholder at'law (there.being numerous other c

87 U.S. 520 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1874

United States v. Gill

United States v. Gill. 1. When, without any express contract founded on advertisement or on military exigency, subsistence stores have bden received into custody by . army officers in frontier parts of the country, and subsequently, the use

87 U.S. 517 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Employment Law 1874

Atchison v. Peterson

Atchison v. Peterson. 1. On the mineral lands of the public domain in the Pacific States and Territories, the doctrines of the common law, declaratory of the fights of riparian proprietors respecting the use of running waters, are inapplica

87 U.S. 507 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1874

Rubber-Tip Pencil Co. v. Howard

Rubber-Tip Pencil Company v. Howard. Though an idea of a person who afterwards obtains, a patent for a device to give his idea effect, riiay.be a good idea, yet if the.device is not new his patent is void, even though'it-be useful. The prin

87 U.S. 498 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1874

Equitable Insurance v. Hearne

Equitable Insurance Company v. Hearne. .Where a party .proposed to insurers to insure his vessel on a voyage from Liverpool to Cuba and to Europe via Ealmouth,” at a rate named, and .'.the company .offered to insure at a somewhat higher rat

87 U.S. 494 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1874

Hearne v. Marine Insurance

Hearne v. Marine Insurance Company. 1. Where, by the terms of a policy,' a vessel is insured “to a port in Cuba, and at and thence to port of advice and discharge in Europe,” and the vessel is lost in going from the port of discharge in Cub

87 U.S. 488 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1874

Boley v. Griswold

Boley v. Griswold. In ati action in the courts of the Territory of .Montana for the'recovery of the possession of personal property — the code of civil procedure in which Territory provides that the judgment in such an action may be for the

87 U.S. 486 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Employment Law 1874

Titus v. United States

Titus v. United States. 1. An informer does not acquire a’right to a moiety under the Confiscation Act of August 6th, 1861, in regard to land informed against, after a complete title to the property has been acquired by conquest. [In the pr

87 U.S. 475 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1874

Sprott v. United States

Sprott v. United States. 1. A purchaser of cotton from the Confederate States, who knew that the money he paid for it went to sustain the rebellion, cannot in the Court of Claims recover the proceeds, wh.e'n it has been captured and sold, u

87 U.S. 459 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1874

Insurance Co. v. Morse

Insurance Company v. Morse. 1. The Constitution of the United States secures to .citizens of another State than that in which suit is brought an absolute right to remove their cases into the Federal court, upon compliance with the terms of

87 U.S. 445 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Tax Law 1874

The Montello

The Montello. 1. The navigability of a stream, for the purpose of bringing it within tho ' terms “ navigable waters of the United States,” does not depend upon the- mode hy which commerce is conducted upon it, as whether by steamers, or sai

87 U.S. 430 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Belle of the Sea

Belle of the Sea. -1. Where adjusters of average, under directions from a mortgagee of a vessel in possession, and with tho consent of her owners, undertake to adjust the business of the vessel on her coming in from a voyage in which shc-li

87 U.S. 421 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1874

Mays v. Fritton

Mays v. Fritton. 1. Where the consideration of a question is prima facie within (he j urisdiction and control of a State court — such as determining to whom the surplus of a fund raised by the. foreclosure of a mortgage belongs — if the per

87 U.S. 414 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1874

Avery v. Hackley

Avery v. Hackley. A valid lien is not divesfed by the mere fact of the holder of it subsequently, taking a transfer of the equity of redemption made to him with a view of giving to him a preference, and in violation of the Bankrupt Act.' Th

87 U.S. 407 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1874

Lyon v. Pollard

Lyon v. Pollard. 1, Where a person agreed to serve in superintending a. large hotel fol*another, at a compensation specified, either party being at liberty to terminate the contract on thirty days’ notice to the other, and the-pérson agreei

87 U.S. 403 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Employment Law 1874

New Orleans v. Steamship Co.

New Orleans v. The Steamship Company. 1. This court has no power to reverse, on appeal, the imposition of .a fine decreed by the Circuit Court for contempt of it. 2. A lease made July 8th, 1865, during the military occupation of New Or-' le

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

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