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Insurance Co. v. Brame
Insurance Company v. Brame. 1. A. killed B., upon whose life there was a policy of. insurance in favor of a ■ third party. The company paid the insurance, and sued A. for the damages it. had sustained by his act. Held, that the action does
United States v. McLean
United States v. McLean. 1. After the salary of a deputy-postmaster has heen fixed, it cannot be increased until a readjustment,of it, based upon his quarterly returns, shall have been made by the Postmaster-General. 2.' Such readjustment i
United States v. Meigs
United States v. Meigs. The deputy-clerk, crier, and messengers of the Supreme Court of the-District of Columbia are not entitled to the twenty per cent additional compensation granted by the joint resolution of Congress'approved Eeb. 28, 1
Pennoyer v. Neff
Pennoyer v. Neff. • 1. A statute of Oregon, after providing for service of summons upon parties or their representatives, personally or at their residence, declares that when ■ service cannot be thus made, and the defendant, after due dilig
Kelly v. Calhoun
Kelly v. Calhoun. 1. The formula prescribed by the laws of Tennessee for the acknowledgment ■ of deeds is: “ Personally appeared before me . . . the within-named bargainor, with whom I am personally acquainted, and who acknowledged that he
Neal v. Clark
Neal v. Clark. 1. The word “fraud,” as used in the thirty-third section of the bankrupt, law of 1867, which provides that “ no debt created by the fraud or embezzlement of the bankrupt, or by defalcation as. a public officer, or while actin
Railroad Co. v. Houston
Railroad Company v. Houston. 1. The neglect of the engineer of a locomotive 'of a railroad train to sound its whistle or ring its bell on nearing a street-crossing, does not relieve a traveller on the street from the necessity of taking ord
Thompson v. Butler
Thompson v. Butler. In a suit in the Circuit Court, where the defendant pleaded neither a set-off nor a counter-claim, the plaintiff remitted so much of a verdict in his favor as was in excess of $5,000, and took judgment for the remainder
Farrington v. Tennessee
Farrington v. Tennessee. The charter of a bank, granted by-the legislature of Tennessee, provides, that the bank “ shall pay to the State an annual tax of oné-half of one per cent on • each share of the capital stock subscribed, which shall
National Bank v. Insurance Co.
National Bank v. Insurance Company. 1. When a party states, in his application for an insurance, that he has made a just, full, and true exposition of all material facts and circumstances in regard to the condition, situation, value, and ri
United States v. Fox
United States v. Fox. 1. An act which is not an offence at the time it is committed cannot become such by any subsequent independent act of the party with which it lias no connection. Accordingly, that part of sect. 5132, Rev. Stat., which
Chubb v. Upton
Chubb v. Upton. 1. A party who made a contract with an organization which had attempted irregularly to create itself into a corporation, and which acted as. such, or who subscribed to its Capital stock, cann'ot, in a suit by the corporation
United States v. Wilcox
United States v. Wilcox. Sects. 73 and 74 of the act entitled “ An Act imposing taxes on distilled spirits and tobacco, and, for other purposes,” approved July 28, 1868 (15 Stat. 157), were not intended to repeal the rule prescribed by sect
Railway Co. v. Stevens
Railway Company v. Stevens. A., who was the owner of a patented car-coupling, for the adoption and úse of which by a railway company he was negotiating, went, at the request and expense of the company, to a point on its road to see one of i
New Orleans v. Clark
New Orleans v. Clark. 1 Where an ordinance of a city, authorizing a contract with a gas company, and tiie issue to it of bonds of the city, provided that tire company should guarantee the said bonds and assume the payment of the prihcipal t
Young v. United States
Young v. United States. The decision of the Court of Claims awarding, on the motion of the United States,a new trial, .while a. claim is pending before it, or on,appeal from-it, or within two years next after the final disposition of such c
Burdette v. Bartlett
Burdette v. Bartlett. Under sect. 827 of the Revised Statutes of the United States relating tothe District of Columbia, persons severally liable upon the same obligation or instru- . ment, including -the parties to promissory notes, may all
Terry v. Anderson
Terry v. Anderson. 1. An enactment reducing the time prescribed by the Statute of Limitations in force when the right of action accrued,' is not unconstitutional, provided a reasonable time .be given for the commencement of a suit before th
County of Henry v. Nicolay
County of Henry v. Nicolay. 1. Where the charter of a railroad company; granted by Missouri prior to the adoption of the Constitution in 1865, made it lawful for the county court of any county in which any part of the route of said railroad
The "Wanata"
The “Wanata.”" 1. A collision occurred at night, about a half milé off the coast of New Jersey, north of Barnega’t and "between that point and Long Branch between a. schooner and á ¡lilot-boat, the. latter, lying there at anchor in .four fa
Given v. Hilton
Given v. Hilton. 1. Where'the intent of a testator to make a complete disposition of all his property is manifest throughout his will, its provisions should be so construed, if they reasonably may, as to carry that intent into effect. ■ ■2.
Mitchell v. Moore
Mitchell v. Moore. I. A trustee residing in Alabama-.during the rebellion, who kept-no'separate accounts of the trust fund, but invested it in his own name, cannot charge it with the losses he sustained from payments made' to him in Confede
United States v. Mann
United States v. Mann. Under sect. 3177 of the Revised Statutes, authorizing any collector, deputy collector, or inspector, to enter, in the daytime, any building or place where any articles-or objects, subject to-tax are made, produced, or
Railroad Co. v. Durant
Railroad Company v. Durant. 1. Where a conveyance of real estate is made to the grantee, as “ trustee,” without setting forth for whom or for what purpose he is trustee, parol evidence is admissible to establish the fact. 2. A trustee canno
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