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Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1877

Hawkins v. United States

Hawkins v. United States. 1. A. agreed to furnish the United States a number of cubic yards of rubble-stone, for the'construction of a public building under a contract which, after prescribing the dimensions of the material, and the price t

96 U.S. 689 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

County of Ray v. Vansycle

County of Ray v. Vansycle. Pursuant to a power conferred in the charter of A., a railroad company, a/county court of Missouri subscribed, in the year 1860, for stock, and agreed toissue county bonds in payment therefor. Under the authority

96 U.S. 675 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1877

Ketchum v. Duncan

Ketchum v. Duncan. Hays v. Ketchum. 1. While' it is true that it is essential to a sale that both parties should consent to it, yet the consent of the former owner need not be expressly given, but may be inferred from the circumstances of t

96 U.S. 659 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1877

Insurance Co. v. Gossler

Insurance Company v. Gossler. 1. So long as a vessel exists in specie in the hands of the owner, although she may require repairs greater than her value, a case of “ utter loss,” within the meaning of a bottomry and respondentia bond, does

96 U.S. 645 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1877

Gold-Mining Co. v. National Bank

Gold-Mining Company v. National Bank. 1. A defendant, sued by a national bank for moneys it loaned him, cannot set up as a bar that they exceeded in amount one-tenth part of its capital stock actually paid in. 2. Where an agent, without aut

96 U.S. 640 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1877

Brine v. Insurance Co.

Brine v. Insurance Company. 1. The laws of the State in which land is situated control exclusively its descent, alienation, and transfer, and the effect and construction of instruments intended to convey it. 2. All such laws in existence wh

96 U.S. 627 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Personal Injury 1877

Gregory v. Morris

Gregory v. Morris. 1. The rule of the common law, that, the lien of the vendor of personal property, to secure the payment of purchase-money, is lost by the voluntary and unconditional delivery of the property to the purchaser,.does not pre

96 U.S. 619 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1877

Hayward v. National Bank

Hayward v. National Bank. A. borrowed of a bank money on call, and deposited with it as collateral security certain mining stocks, with written authority to sell them at its discretion. The loan remaining unpaid, the bank notified him that,

96 U.S. 611 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

Edwards v. Kearzey

Edwards v. Kearzey. The remedy subsisting in a State when and where a contract is made, and is to be performed, is a part of its obligation; and any subsequent law of the State, which so affects that remedy as substantially to impair and le

96 U.S. 595 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1877

Railroad Co. v. Collector

Railroad Company v. Collector. 1. Under the provisions of .the act of March 3, 1877 (19 Stat. 344), the cost of printing all records in this court, after Oct. 1 in that year, which is paid by the government, must he taxed against the losing

96 U.S. 594 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Employment Law 1877

Insurance Co. v. Brune's Assignee

Insurance Company v. Brune’s Assignee. 1. The rule at law that the pendency of a former action between the same parties for the same cause is pleadable in abatement to a second action, provided th'e actions be in courts of the' same State,

96 U.S. 588 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

Bissell v. Heyward

Bissell v. Heyward. 1. A. made his will, appointing C. his executor, and devising his real, property in South Carolina to B. for life; and, after the determination of that estate, to' C., in trust, to support certain contingent remainders i

96 U.S. 580 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1877

Insurance Co. v. Eggleston

Insurance Company v. Eggleston. 1. Any agreement, declaration, or course of action on the part of .an insurance company, which leads a party insured honestly to believe that by-conforming thereto a forfeiture of his policy will not be incur

96 U.S. 572 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

United States v. Kaufman

United States v. Kaufman. A brewer paid to the collector of internal revenue $100 for special tax on his business from May 1, 1873, to April 30,1874, for which a special tax stamp was given him. At the close of the year, it was found, that

96 U.S. 567 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

Garfield v. Paris

Garfield v. Paris. 1. Matters of evidence are not required to be stated in a bill of particulars. 2. A purchaser’s receipt and acceptance of goods sufficient to satisfy the Statute of Frauds may be constructive. . 3.. A. contracted by parol

96 U.S. 557 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1877

Schumacher v. Cornell

Schumacher v. Cornell. 1. Letters-patent No. 133,636, granted Dec. 3,1872, to William Johnson, for an improvement in wrenches, do not infringe reissued letters-patent No. 5026, granted Aug. 6,1872, to John Lacey and George B. Cornell, for a

96 U.S. 549 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1877

Insurance Co. v. Mowry

Insurance Company v. Mowry. 1. The only case where^a representation.as to the future can operate as an estoppel is where it relates to the purposed abandonment of an existing right, and-Was intended to influence, and has influenced, the con

96 U.S. 544 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Dismissed Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

Wolf v. Stix

Wolf v. Stix. A decree dismissing a bill in chancery brought to recover a debt and set aside an ’ alleged fraudulent sale of property, was; on appeal, reversed, and a decree rendered by the Supreme Court of the State against the appellee fo

96 U.S. 541 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

National Bank v. Warren

National Bank v. Warren. The mere non-resistance of a debtor to judicial proceedings' in which a judgment was rendered against him, when the debt was due and there was no valid defence to it, is not the suffering and giving a preference und

96 U.S. 539 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1877

Moore v. Robbins

Moore v. Robbins. 1.- A patent for public land, when issued by the Land Department, aeting within the scope of its authority, and delivered to and accepted by the grantee, passes the legal title to the land. All control of the Executive Dep

96 U.S. 530 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

Railroad Co. v. Richmond

Railroad Company v. Richmond. 1. The ordinance of the council of the city of Richmond, passed Sept. 8,1873, that “ no car, engine, carriage, or other vehicle of any kind belonging to or used by the Richmond, Eredericksburg, and Potomac Rail

96 U.S. 521 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1877

Atherton v. Fowler

Atherton v. Fowler. 1. No right of pre-emption can he established by a settlement and improvement on a tract, of public land where the claimant forcibly intruded upon the possession of one who had already settled upon, improved, and enclose

96 U.S. 513 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1877

Railroad Co. v. Maine

Railroad Company v. Maine. 1. Whére two or more corporations, subjected to a special tax upon the net income of their roads, with immunity from ■ other taxation, — the amount of such special tax being dependent upon reports to be made and i

96 U.S. 499 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1877

Casey v. Schneider

Casey v. Schneider. Under the statute of Louisiana relating to pledges of negotiable and other securities, which was in force in the year 1873, when the .transaction in this case took place, the actual delivery of such securities was suffic

96 U.S. 496 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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