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Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1875

Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. Tisdale

Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company v. Tisdale. In a suit brought by the plaintiff in his individual character, and not as administrator, to recover a debt upon a contract between him and the defendant, where the right of action depends u

91 U.S. 238 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1875

Pollard v. Lyon

Pollard v. Lyon. 1. Spoken words charging a woman with fornication in the "District of Columbia are not actionable per se, as the misconduct they impute, although involving moral turpitude, is not an indictable offence. 2. In an action for

91 U.S. 225 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1875

The "Sunnyside"

The “Sunnyside.” 1. If a sailing vessel, when approaching a steamer, fails to adopt all reasonable precautions to prevent a collision, she will not be excused, even though she displays her proper signal-lights; and is entitled, in the absen

91 U.S. 208 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1875

Mitchell v. Board of Commissioners

Mitchell v. Board of Commissioners of Leavenworth County, Kansas. Where, for the purpose of evading the payment of a tax on his money on de- ’ posit, which the law of a State required .to be listed for taxation March 1 in each year, a party

91 U.S. 206 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1875

The "Free State"

The “Free State.” X. It is the duty of a steamer to keep out of the way of a sailing vessel when they are approaching in such directions as to involve a risk of collision. The correlative obligation rests upon the sailing vessel to keep her

91 U.S. 200 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1875

Sewall v. Jones

Sewall v. Jones. 1. Patents No. 34,928, dated April 8, 1862,- and No. 35,274, dated May 13,1882, issued to Isaac Winslow for a new and useful improvement in preserving Indian corn, are void for want of novelty. 2. To entitle a party to reco

91 U.S. 171 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Civil Rights 1875

Hall v. Lanning

Hall et al. v. Lanning et al. 1. A member of a partnership, residing in one State, not served with process and ■ not appearing, is not personally bound by a judgment recovered in another State against all the partners after a dissolution of

91 U.S. 160 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1875

Roberts v. Ryer

Roberts v. Ryer. .1. The doctrine announced in Smith v. Nichols, 21 Wall. 112, — that “a mere carrying forward .or new or more extended application of the original thought, a change only in form, proportions, or degree, doing substantially

91 U.S. 150 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1875

Roemer v. Simon

Roemer v. Simon et al. 1. This court cannot, after an appeal in equity, receive new evidence; nor can it upon motion set aside a decree of the court below, and grant a rehearing. 2. The court below can grant a rehearing during the term at w

91 U.S. 149 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1875

Atherton v. Fowler

Atherton et al. v. Fowler et al. 1. As the appellate jurisdiction of this court over the State courts is confined to a re-examination of the final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of a State in which the decision of a sui

91 U.S. 143 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1875

Beauregard v. Case

Beauregard v. Case. 1. An agreement provided that the party of the first part should obtain in his own name, but for the joint account of himself-and the parties of the second part, a lease of a railroad, and manage the same at a designated

91 U.S. 134 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1875

Baltimore & Potomac Railroad v. Trustees of Sixth Presbyterian Church

Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company v. Trustees of Sixth Presbyterian Church. Affidavits, depositions, and matters of parol evidence, though appearing in, the transcript of the proceedings of a common-law court, do not form part of the r

91 U.S. 127 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1875

Jackson v. Jackson

Jackson v. Jackson. 1. Although, by the common law, the money which the wife has at the time of her marriage, not secured to her by a settlement or contract, and that which she subsequently earns, belong to the husband, it is competent and

91 U.S. 122 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1875

Sawyer v. Turpin

Sawyer et al. v. Turpin et al. As the exchange of a valid security for one- of equal value within four months prior to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy, even when the cfeditbr and . debtor know of the insolvency of the latter, takes n

91 U.S. 114 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1875

Long v. Converse

Long et al. v. Converse et al. 1. This court has no jurisdiction to review the decision of a State court against a right and a title under a statute of the United States, unless such right and-title he specially set up and claimed by the pa

91 U.S. 105 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1875

National Bank of Commerce v. Merchants' National Bank

National Bank of Commerce of Boston v. Merchants’ National Bank of Memphis. 1. A bill of lading of merchandise, deliverable to order, when attached to and forwarded with a time draft, sent without special instructions to an agent for collec

91 U.S. 92 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1875

United States v. Union Pacific Railroad

United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company. 1. The solution of the question, whether the Union Pacific Railroad Company is required to pay the interest before the maturity of the principal of the bonds issued by the United States to th

91 U.S. 72 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1875

Webster v. Upton

Webster v. Upton, Assignee. 1. The doctrine announced in Upton v. Tribilcock, supra, that the original holders of the stock of a corporation are liable for the unpaid balances at the suit of its assignee in bankruptcy, without any express-

91 U.S. 65 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1875

Carver v. Upton

Carver v. Upton, Assignee. Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois.

91 U.S. 64 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1875

Sanger v. Upton

Sanger v. Upton, Assignee. 1. Where, in a district court of the United States, a corporation was adjudged a bankrupt, an assignee appointed, and an order made that the balance unpaid upon the stock held by the several stockholders should be

91 U.S. 56 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1875

Upton v. Tribilcock

Upton, Assignee, v. Tribilcock. 1. The original holder of stock in a corporation is liable for unpaid instalments of stock, without an express promise to pay them ; and a contract between a corporation or its agents and him, limiting his li

91 U.S. 45 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1875

Piper v. Moon

Piper v. Moon et al.

91 U.S. 44 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1875

Brown v. Piper

Brown et al. v. Piper. 1. The application by the patentee of an old process to a new subject, without •any exercise of the inventive faculty,-and without the development of any idea which can be deemed new or original- in the sense of the p

91 U.S. 37 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1875

Farmers' & Mechanics' National Bank v. Dearing

Farmers’ and Mechanics’ National Bank v. Dearing. 1. The only forfeiture declared by the thirtieth section of the act of June'3, ¿864 (13 Stat. 9D), is of the entire interest which the note, bill, or other evidence of debt, carries with it,

91 U.S. 29 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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