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Outcome n/a Employment Law 1877

Ex parte Railroad Co.

Ex parte Railroad Company. 1. Where the final decree of the Circuit Court is inconsistent with an interlocutory decree granting affirmative relief upon a cross-bill in the same suit, a -party adversely affected by such final decree, where t

95 U.S. 221 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1877

Roemer v. Simon

Roemer v. Simon. 1. Letters-patent No. 56,801, issued July 31, 1866, to William Roemer, for an improvement in travelling-bags, cannot be sustained, as the thing patented was, before his alleged invention, known and extensively used by other

95 U.S. 214 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

Radich v. Hutchins

Radich v. Hutchins. 1..' Carlisle v. United States, 16 Wall. 147, cited and approved. 2. A foreigner, domiciled during the year 1864 in Texas, who, in order to obtain permission of the rebel government to export his cotton/ sold at a nomina

95 U.S. 210 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

Bates v. Clark

Bates v. Clark. 1. In the absence of any different provision by treaty or by act of Congress; all the country described by the first section of the act of June 30, 1834 (4 Stat. ’ 729), as Indian country, remains such only as long as the In

95 U.S. 204 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1877

Preston v. Preston

Preston v. Preston. 1. A contract for the conveyance of lands, which a court of equity will specifically enforce, must be certain in its terms, and the certainty required has reference both to the description of the property and the estate

95 U.S. 200 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

Fabbri v. Murphy

Fabbri v. Murphy. Certain goods were imported in November, 1860, and stored in a bonded warehouse' until .March 20, 1871, when they were withdrawn for consumption. . Held, that, having so remained in such warehouse, they were, under the act

95 U.S. 191 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

Kerr v. Clampitt

Kerr v. Clampitt. 1. This court has no- jurisdiction to revise the action of an inferior court upon the question of either granting or refusing a new trial, and the final judgment of such court cannot be examined through its rulings upon th

95 U.S. 188 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Insurance Law 1877

Amory v. Amory

Amory v. Amory. Same v. Same 1. A petition for tire removal from a State court of a suit, bróugl-t'by tlie plain-. tiffs in their representative capacity as executors is insufficient, under tbe . act of March 2, 1867 (14 Stat. 558), where t

95 U.S. 186 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Insurance Law 1877

Insurance Co. v. Pechner

Insurance Company v. Pechner. 1. A person not a citizen of the State, in a court whereof he is sued, cannot, under the twelfth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, remove the suit to the Circuit' Court of the-United.States, by reason of th

95 U.S. 183 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

West Philadelphia Bank v. Dickson

West Philadelphia Bank v. Dickson. Money paid to his creditors,’by a person who they have reasonable cause to believe is insolvent, or obtained by them-ojn an attachment issued against his property, within four months next preceding the com

95 U.S. 180 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1877

Blount v. Windley

Blount v. Windley. 1. When no rights of third parties interfere, the extent to which mutual obligations may be set off against each other, and the mode of doing it, are wholly subject to legislative control- 2. A statute, therefore, as that

95 U.S. 173 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Insurance Law 1877

Insurance Co. v. Lanier

Insurance Company v. Lanier. 1. A bill of exceptions, allowed and signed or sealed by the judge, is the only mode by'which his. rulings during the progress of a trial, or his charge to the jury, can be rendered a part of the record. 2. The

95 U.S. 171 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1877

Railroad Co. v. Hecht

Railroad Company v. Hecht. 1. A statute which prescribes a mode of serving process upon railroad companies different from that provided for in a charter previously granted to a particular company, does not impair tlie obligation of the cont

95 U.S. 168 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

Continental Improvement Co. v. Stead

Continental Improvement Company v. Stead. 1. Travellers upon a common highway which crosses a railroad upon the same level, and the railroad company running a train, have mutual and reciprocal duties and obligations; and, although the train

95 U.S. 161 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed 1877

Brown v. County of Buena Vista

Brown v. County of Buena Vista. 1. A court of equity will not relieve against a judgment at law where the party seeking its aid has been guilty of laches or fault. 2. Whether the time which has elapsed since the discovery Of the fraud, set

95 U.S. 157 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Civil Rights 1877

Knote v. United States

Knote v. United States. 1. The general pardon and amnesty granted by President Johnson, by proclamation, on the 25th of December, 1868, do not.entitle one receiving their benefits to the proceeds of his property, previously condemned and so

95 U.S. 149 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1877

Movius v. Arthur

Movius v. Arthur. 1. The act of Congress, approved June 6, 1872 (17 Stat. 230), does not repeal the provisions in the acts of March 2, 1861 (12 id. 189), Aug. 5, 1861 (id. 293), and July 14,1862 (id. 555), imposing duties on japanned, paten

95 U.S. 144 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1877

Insurance Co. v. Boon

Insurance Company v. Boon. 1. Where the issues are tried by the court, its finding belongs to the record as fully as does the verdict of a jury. 2. Where the court tried the issues of fact, and its opinion, embodying its findings and the co

95 U.S. 117 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Tax Law 1877

New Jersey v. Yard

New Jersey v. Yard. 1. A statute of a State, which declares that all charters' of corporations granted after its passage may he altered, amended, or repealed by the legislature, does not necessarily apply to supplements to an existing chart

95 U.S. 104 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

Buffington v. Harvey

Buffington v. Harvey. 1. The court approves .the ruling in Whiting et al. v. The Bank of the United Stales, 13 Pet. 6, and Putnam v. Day, 22 Wall. 00, that the only questions open in a bill of review, except when it is filed on the ground o

95 U.S. 99 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

Good v. Martin

Good v. Martin. 1. In a sui upon -a promissory note, the court below charged the jury that if the defendant, without making.any statement of his intention in so doing, wrote his name on the back of the note before its delivery to the payee,

95 U.S. 90 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

Packet Co. v. Keokuk

Packet Company v. Keokuk. 1. A municipal corporation having, by its charter, an exclusive right to make wharves on the banks of a navigable river upon which it is situated, collectwharfage, and regulate wharfage rates; can, consistently wit

95 U.S. 80 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

Railroad Co. v. Rose

Railroad Company v. Rose. A railroad company paid to the holders of its bonds the entire amount of semiannual interest accruing thereon from Jan. 1 to July 1, 1870. Held, that the proper internal revenue officer Of the United States rightfu

95 U.S. 78 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1877

Ex parte Easton

Ex parte Easton. 1. Claims for wharfage, arising out of either an- express or an implied'contract, are cognizable in admiralty. 2. Where the wharfage has not been agreed upon by the parties, the wharfinger is entitled, as upon an implied co

95 U.S. 68 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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