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Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1877

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

95 U.S. 754 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1877

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

95 U.S. 750 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed 1877

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

95 U.S. 748 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1877

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

95 U.S. 714 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1877

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

95 U.S. 710 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

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

95 U.S. 704 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Personal Injury 1877

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

95 U.S. 697 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1877

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

95 U.S. 694 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1877

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

95 U.S. 679 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Insurance Law 1877

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

95 U.S. 673 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

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

95 U.S. 670 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1877

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

95 U.S. 665 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

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

95 U.S. 661 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Personal Injury 1877

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

95 U.S. 655 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

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

95 U.S. 644 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1877

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

95 U.S. 641 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1877

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

95 U.S. 637 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Civil Rights 1877

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

95 U.S. 628 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

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

95 U.S. 619 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Personal Injury 1877

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

95 U.S. 600 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Tax Law 1877

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.

95 U.S. 591 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1877

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

95 U.S. 587 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1877

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

95 U.S. 580 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1877

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

95 U.S. 576 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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