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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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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