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Outcome n/a Employment Law 1878

Ingersoll v. Bourne

INGERSOLL v. BOURNE. APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE • UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI. No. 949. Submitted November 25, 1878. Decided December 2, 1878. An appeal to this court will not lie from the judgment of a

154 U.S. 645 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1878

Hagar v. California

HAGAR v. CALIFORNIA. ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA. No. 898. Submitted October 15, 1877. Decided November 12, 1878. This court has no jurisdiction over a judgment of a state court when it does not appear that a Feder

154 U.S. 639 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1878

Union Pacific Railroad v. United States

SINKING-FUND CASES. Union Pacific Railroad Company v. United States. Central Pacific Railroad Company v. Gallatin. 1. So far as it establishes in the treasury of the United States a sinking-fund, the act of Congress approved May 7,1878 (20

99 U.S. 700 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Block v. Commissioners

Block v. Commissioners. Commissioners v. Block. 1. A., tlie lawful holder of coupons detached from bonds issued by a county in Kansas, applied to a court of competent jurisdiction for a mandamus to compel the county commissioners to pay suc

99 U.S. 686 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Lyons v. Munson

Lyons v. Munson. 1. The ruling in Orleans v. Platt (supra, p. 676) as to the jurisdiction of the county judge in New York to decide upon the application made to him by the taxpayers of a town for an order that its bonds bo issued to enable

99 U.S. 684 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1878

Orleans v. Platt

Orleans v. Platt. 1. Where, upon the undisputed facts of the case, the plaintiff is entitled to recover, it is not error for the court to instruct the jury to find for him. 2. Where the testimony is all one way, a party is not entitled to i

99 U.S. 676 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Perris v. Hexamer

Perris v. Hexamer. The right of an author or a publisher, under the copyright law, is infringed only when other persons produce a substantial copy of the whole or of a material part of the book or other thing for which he secured a copyrigh

99 U.S. 674 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Lyon v. Pollock

Lyon v. Pollock. 1.. A., at the commencement of the late rebellion, owned property in San Antonio, Texas, consisting principally of real estate and stock in a gas company. Apprehending that his life was in danger in consequence of his avowe

99 U.S. 668 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Personal Injury 1878

Evanston v. Gunn

Evanston v. Gunn. I. A party specifying his objection to the admission of evidence must he considered as waiving all others, or as conceding that there is no ground upon which they can he maintained. 2 The record kept by a person employed i

99 U.S. 660 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Personal Injury 1878

Spring Co. v. Edgar

Spring Company v. Edgar. 1. This was an action against the proprietor of a park, to recover for injuries sustained by A. from an attack by a male deer which, with other deer, was permitted to roam in the park, and which the declaration char

99 U.S. 645 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Civil Rights 1878

Transportation Co. v. Chicago

Transportation Company v. Chicago. 1. That which the law authorizes cannot be a nuisance such as to give a common-law right of action. 2. A municipal corporation, authorized by law to improve a street by building on the line thereof a bridg

99 U.S. 635 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Insurance Law 1878

National Bank v. Case

National Bank v. Case. 1. A party' who, by way of pledge or collateral security for a loan of money, accepts stock of a national bank which he causes to be transferred to him self on its books, incurs immediate liability as a stockholder, a

99 U.S. 628 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded 1878

Commissioners v. Sellew

Commissioners v. Sellew. A county in Kansas is a body politic, whose powers are exercised by a board of county commissioners, and when it is sued, process must be served upon the clerk of the board. Where, therefore, a mandamus was awarded

99 U.S. 624 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1878

Cannon v. Pratt

Cannon v. Pratt. 1. The doctrine in Stringfellow v. Cain (supra, p. 610) reaffirmed. 2. The Probate Court of Utah has jurisdiction to determine the conflicting rights of claimants to lots forming part of the lands in that Territory entered

99 U.S. 619 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Reversed Intellectual Property 1878

Stringfellow v. Cain

Stringfellow v. Cain. 1. Under the act entitled “ An Act concerning the practice in territorial courts, and appeals therefrom,” approved April 7,1874 (18 Stat. pt. 3, p. 27), the appellate jurisdiction of this court over the judgment or the

99 U.S. 610 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1878

National Bank v. Bank of Commerce

National Bank v. Bank of Commerce. Where a judgment was rendered October 5, and the present term commenced October 15, and the writ of error and citation were returnable on the “second • Monday in October next,” the court, March 17, grants,

99 U.S. 608 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1878

Whitney v. Cook

Whitney v. Cook. 1. Under amended Rule 6 the plaintiff in error, or the appellant, may, with a motion to dismiss the writ of error or the appeal, unite a motion to affirm the judgment or the decree; hut where there is no color of right to a

99 U.S. 607 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1878

United States v. Ford

WHISKEY CASES. United States v. Ford ; United States v. Ford ; United States v. One Still ; United States v. Fifty Barrels of Distilled Spirits ; United States v. Three Hundred and Nineteen Barrels of Whiskey; United States v. Four Hundred

99 U.S. 594 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1878

Alvord v. United States

Alvord v. United States. 1. The court announces its determination to enforce rigidly the rules requiring causes to be ready for hearing when they are reached. 2. Counsel who enter their appearance under the requirements of Rule 9 will be he

99 U.S. 593 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Terhune v. Phillips

Terhune v. Phillips. The court will take judicial notice of a thing which is in the common knowledge and use of the people through the country. It therefore.holes that reissued letters-patent No. 5748, granted to Matthias Terhune Jan. 27, 1

99 U.S. 592 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1878

United States v. County of Macon

United States v. County of Macon. 1. Where the statute authorizing a county to subscribe for stock in a railroad company, and issue its bonds therefor, limits its power to provide for the payment of them to an annual special tax of one-twen

99 U.S. 582 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1878

Pence v. Langdon

Pence v. Langdon. 1. The jury should not be instructed to find for the defendant, unless the evidence is such as to leave no doubt that it is their duty to return a verdict in his favor. 2. The notice of the rescission of a contract is not

99 U.S. 578 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Elliott v. Railroad Co.

Elliott v. Railroad Company. 1. The court reaffirms its ruling in Erskine v. Milwaukee. 8f St. Paid Railroad Co. (94 U. S. 619), that the forfeiture of §1,000 is the only penalty to which a corporation is liable for default, under sect. 122

99 U.S. 573 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1878

McBurney v. Carson

McBurney v. Carson. 1. Where a suit in equity, to enforce a Hen on property within the district, was pending at the time of the passage of the act of June 1,1872 (17 Stat. 196), and a party who was not an inhabitant of, or found within, the

99 U.S. 567 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion