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Gunn v. Plant
Gunn v. Plant. 1. In Georgia, the omission to record the verdict upon which the judgment was rendered does not deprive the plaintiff of his lien upon the real estate of the defendant. 2. A judgment duly entered by a court having jurisdictio
County of Dallas v. MacKenzie
County of Dallas v. MacKenzie. 1. Under the Code of Practice of Missouri, if any one of the defences set up in the answer is a bar to the plaintiff’s right to recover, a demurrer to the whole answer must be overruled. 2. A county in Missour
Crim v. Handley
Crim v. Handley. 1. The court affirms the doctrine announced in Hendrickson y. Hinckley, 17 How. ááS, that a court of equity will not enjoin a judgment at law, unless the proof clearly shows that the defendant had a just defence, of which h
Lowe v. Williams
Lowe v. Williams. A suit pending in an appellate State court, after it has been prosecuted to final judgment in a court of' original jurisdiction, cannot be removed to the Circuit Court of the United States. Error, to the Supreme Court of t
Boyd v. Alabama
Boyd v. Alabama. The defendant, having been indicted under a statute of Alabama for setting up and carrying on a lottery without legislative authority, claimed in defence a right to set up and carry on the lottery in question under a subseq
Commissioners of Johnson County v. Thayer
Commissioners of Johnson County v. Thayer. 1. Under the act of the legislature of Kansas, approved Feb. 10, 1865, authorizing the board of county commissioners of any county to, into, through, from, or near which any railroad is or may.be l
Eames v. Home Insurance
Eames v. Home Insurance Company. 1. The correspondence in this ease considered, and held to create a valid contract for a policy of insurance in the Home Insurance Company of New York for $4,000 on the mill and machinery of the complainants
Erskine v. Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co.
Erskine v. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company v. Erskine. A penalty of $1,000 is the Only liability incurred by a railroad company for failing to comply with the provisions of sect. 122 of the int
United States v. Joseph
United States v. Joseph. A; settled upon land belonging to the Indians of the village or pueblo of Taos, in New Mexico Held, 1. That he was not liable under the acts of Congress which prohibit a settlement by any person on land belonging, s
New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance v. Baker
New Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Baker. 1. Counsel cannot, in requests-to the court below, assume the existence of facts and ask a charge to the jury based upon such assumption; nor, upon argu-' ment here, insist that, because th
Russell v. Place
Russell v. Place. 1. A judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, upon a question directly in volved in one suit, is conclusive as to that question in another suit between the same parties; but to-this operation of the judgment it must
Glenny v. Langdon
Glenny v. Langdon. Where a party prosecutes a suit as a representative creditor, and the other creditors, until notice to the contrary, have the right to rely upon him to protect their interest in the subject-matter of the litigation, a not
The " Stephen Morgan."
The “ Stephen Morgan.” 1. A party who does not appeal from the final decree of a circuit court cannot be heard in opposition thereto, when the case is properly brought here by the appeal of the adverse party. 2. This court, concurring in op
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Schwenk
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Schwenk. 1. Where it is not a condition of a policy of life insurance that a statement of the age of the insured should accompany the proofs of his death, the party for whose benefit the insuranc
Clapp v. Mason
Clapp v. Mason. A., who died Dec. 4,1867, devised his real estate to his widow for her life, with - remainder over to B. She died June 17, 1872, when B. entered. Held, that an internal revenue tax could not he legally assessed May 15, 1873,
Maclay v. Sands
Maclay v. Sands. Under the .Civil Practice Act of Montana, judgment cannot be entered against a defendant, as upon default for want of issues to be tried, where there is on file in the cause an answer specifically denying, upon information
Seitz v. Mitchell
Seitz v. Mitchell. 1. The rule of equity practice, that when a defendant’s answer under oath ex pressly negatives the allegations of the bill, and the testimony of one person only affirms them, the court will not decree in favor of the comp
Relief Fire Insurance v. Shaw
Relief Fire Insurance Company of New York v. Shaw. 1. Unless prohibited by statute or other positive regulation, a valid contract of insurance can be made by parol. 2. There is nothing in the charter of the plaintiff in error, nor in c. 196
Merrill v. Yeomans
Merrill v. Yeomans. Letters-patent No. 90,284, issued to Joshua Merrill May IS, 1869, for improved manufacture of deodorized heavy hydrocarbon oils, construed and held to be good for the superheating coil, with its steam-pipe, &c., referred
Ætna Life Insurance v. France
Ætna Life Insurance Company v. France. 1. The relationship between a party and another for whose benefit he effects an insurance upon his life, if a good and valid consideration in law fdr any gift or grant, furnishes no ground for the impu
Dutcher v. Wright
Dutcher v. Wright. 1. In computing the four months before filing the petition in bankruptcy, within which time the assignment of his property by an insolvent debtor, with a view to give a preference to any creditor, is void, the day upon wh
Southern Express Co. v. Dickson
Southern Express Company v. Dickson. An express company, well knowing that certain goods, received by it for transportation to a place mentioned in its receipt, were the property of the shipper, delivered them, without his knowledge, to a t
Davis v. Alvord
Davis v. Alvord. 1. A suit to recover judgment for labor performed by the plaintiff upon a quarts mill and mine in Montana Territory, and to enforce a mechanic’s and laborer’s lien upon the defendant’s interest in the premises for the payme
Doyle v. Continental Insurance
Doyle v. Continental Insurance Company. 1. The court reaffirm;) the decision in Insurance Company v. Morse, 20 Wall. 446, that an agreement to abstain in all cases from resorting to the courts of the United States is void as against public
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