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Goodenough Hoese-Shoe Manufacturing Co. v. Rhode Island Horse-Shoe Co.

GOODENOUGH HOESE-SHOE MANUFACTURING CO. v. RHODE ISLAND HORSE-SHOE CO. ERROR to the supreme court op the STATE OF NEW YORK. No. 665. Submitted October 15, 1877. Decided November 5, 1877. Until the record of a judgment in a state court which

154 U.S. 635 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1877

Marsh v. Seymour

Marsh v. Seymour. Same v. Same. 1. The court concurs with the court below that reissued letters-patent No. 72, dated May 7,1861, and No. 1683, dated May 31,1861, for new and useful improvements in reaping-machines, and reissued letters No.

97 U.S. 348 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

Martin v. Marks

Martin v. Marks. 1. The act of March S, 1857 (11 Stat. 251), confirmed to the several States their selections of swamp lands, which had then been reported to the Commissioner of the General Land-Office, so far as the lands were then “ vacan

97 U.S. 345 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1877

Emigrant Co. v. County of Wright

Emigrant Company v. County of Wright. The legislature of Iowa having, by an act passed Feb. 2,1853, granted to the counties in which the same were respectively situated the swamp and overflowed lands to which the State was entitled under th

97 U.S. 339 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Insurance Law 1877

Insurance Co. v. Harris

Insurance Company v. Harris. Assumpsit against an insurance company upon a life policy. Plea, non assumpsit, «•¡ill an agreement that either party might introduce any matter in evidence which would be legally admissible if it had been speci

97 U.S. 331 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1877

The "City of Hartford"

The “City of Hartford” and the “Unit.” 1. A steamboat collided with and sunk a schooner towed by a tug. The owner of the schooner and the owner of her cargo severally libelled the steamboat and tug, both of which were found to be in fault.

97 U.S. 323 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

Herbert v. Butler

Herbert v. Butler. 1. A paper incorporated in the record, and certified to be a part thereof by the court below, if it has all the requisites of a bill of exceptions, will be considered here as such, although it be otherwise entitled. 2. Wh

97 U.S. 319 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Dismissed 1877

Hurley v. Jones

Hurley v. Jones. 1. When a cause, reached in its regular order upon the docket, has, under Rule 10, been dismissed by reason of the appellant's non-appearance, for which no just cause existed, it will not, over the objection of the appellee

97 U.S. 318 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1877

The "Virginia Ehrman"

The “Virginia Ehrman” and the “Agnese.” A ship in tow of a steam-tug, each having its own master and crew, collided with and sunk a steam-dredge lying at anchor at a proper place, displaying good signal-lights, and having competent lookouts

97 U.S. 309 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

Trust Co. v. Sedgwick

Trust Company v. Sedgwick. The court adheres to its ruling in Phipps v. Sedgwick {95 U. S. 3), that, where a husband causes real estate to be conveyed to his wife in fraud of his creditors, a judgment in personam for its value cannot be tak

97 U.S. 304 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

Memphis v. Brown

Memphis v. Brown. A., having a decree against the city of Memphis for the payment of money, obtained, in March, 1875, a mandamus, commanding her to levy upon all the taxable property of the city a tax sufficient in amount to pay the decree.

97 U.S. 300 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

Memphis v. United States

Memphis v. United States. 1. Tested rights acquired hy a creditor under and by virtue of a statute of a State granting new remedies, or enlarging those which existed when the debt was contracted, are beyond the reach of the legislature, and

97 U.S. 293 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

United States v. Memphis

United States v. Memphis. 1. In March and July, 1867, A. entered into, contracts with the City of Memphis to pave certain streets. Most of the work was done after the passage of an act of the legislature of Tennessee of Dec. 3, 1867, by whi

97 U.S. 284 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1877

Chaboya v. Umbarger

Chaboya v. Umbarger. A claim under a Mexican grant was, in 1862, confirmed by this court to A. to the extent of five hundred acres of land. The title thereto was afterwards transferred to B., who brought ejectment therefor against A. The la

97 U.S. 280 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

County of Macon v. Shores

County of Macon v. Shores. 1. Where, in an action against a county, to recover the amount due on coupons detached from bonds issued by it in payment of its subscription to the capital stock of a railroad company, the declaration avers that

97 U.S. 272 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

Lilienthal's Tobacco v. United States

Lilienthal’s Tobacco v. United States. 1. The ninth section of the act of July 13, 1866 (14 Stat. 133), imposed upon “ smoking-tobacco sweetened, stemmed, or butted, a tax of forty cents per pound,” and “on smoking-tobacco of all kinds not

97 U.S. 237 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1877

United States v. McKee

United States v. McKee. McKee v. United States. In 1864, A. entered into two contracts with the United States to deliver a specified number of tons “of timothy or prairie hay” at Fort Gibson, and other points within the Indian Territory, wh

97 U.S. 233 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1877

Hyndman v. Roots

Hyndman v. Roots. This case involves merely questions of fact; and the court finds that letters-patent No. 106,165, granted Aug. 9, 1870, to William G. Hyndman, for an “improvement in rotary blowers,” infringe the first, second, third, and

97 U.S. 224 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

United States v. Watkins

United States v. Watkins. Bringier v. United States. 1. Where a grant of lands; made pursuant to a sale of them, and describing them by metes and bounds, according to a previous regular survey, was made by the Spanish Intendant, March 5, 18

97 U.S. 219 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1877

McMicken v. United States

McMicken v. United States. X. On Dec. 17,1798, A. applied to the Spanish governor-general for a grant of six hundred and ten arpents of land, for a plantation and settlement, in the district of Bqton Rouge, three miles from the Mississippi.

97 U.S. 204 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1877

Ashcroft v. Railroad Co.

Ashcroft v. Railroad Company. 1. Reissued letters-patent No. 3727, granted by the United States, Nov. 9,1869, to Edward H. Ashcroft, assignee of William Naylor, for an improvement in steam safety-valves, being a reissue of original letters

97 U.S. 189 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

Lamborn v. County Commissioners

Lamborn v. County Commissioners. A contract for the purchase by A. from B. of certain lands in Kansas ¡provided that A. should pay all taxes lawfully assessed on them, and that B. would convey them upon the payment of the purchase-money. Th

97 U.S. 181 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed 1877

Godfrey v. Terry

Godfrey v. Terry. The Merchants’ Bank of South Carolina, at Cheraw, suspended specie payments Nov. 13, 1860, and never thereafter resumed. Its charter contains a provision that, “ in case of the failure of the said bank, each stockholder, c

97 U.S. 171 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Personal Injury 1877

United States v. Norton

United States v. Norton. 1. The proclamation of the President of June 13, 1865 (13 Stat. 763), annulling, in the territory of the United States east of the Mississippi, all restrictions previously imposed upon internal, domestic, and coastw

97 U.S. 164 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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