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Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1878

Colby v. Reed

Colby v. Reed. 1. Unless the contract so provides, the demand of one of the parties thereto that the other shall perform his agreement need not he in writing. 2. Where the amount to which the plaintiff is entitled is clear, an action by him

99 U.S. 560 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1878

Hartell v. Tilghman

Hartell v. Tilghman. 1. A suit between citizens of the same State cannot be sustained in the Circuit Court as arising under the patent laws of the United States, where the defendant admits the validity and his use of the plaintiff’s letters

99 U.S. 547 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1878

Yulee v. Vose

Yulee v. Vose. A., a citizen of Florida, with other persons, some of whom were citizens of New York, was sued by a citizen of the latter State, in a court thereof. The plaintiff, in his petition, alleged that the defendants held all the fra

99 U.S. 539 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Employment Law 1878

Jackson v. Ludeling

Jackson v. Ludeling. Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Texas Railroad Company v. Jackson. 1. In Louisiana, where a railroad, in a state of complete dilapidation and ruin, was sold under a mortgage, under circumstances which, importing some fraud i

99 U.S. 513 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1878

United States v. Germaine

United States v. Germaine. 1. Civil surgeons appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions under sect. 4777 of the Revised Statutes are not officers of the United States. 2. The Commissioner of Pensions is not the head of a department, within t

99 U.S. 508 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Dismissed 1878

Grigsby v. Purcell

Grigsby v. Purcell. 1. An appeal will be dismissed, where, at the term to which it was returnable, the transcript was, by reason of the laches of the appellant, not filed, or the cause docketed in this court. 2. The appellee at any time bef

99 U.S. 505 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1878

Wilson v. Salamanca

Wilson v. Salamanca. 1. Bonds of a township in Kansas payable to A., a railroad company, or bearer, were duly executed by the township trustee and township clerk, acting in their official capacity, as its legal representatives. They recite

99 U.S. 499 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1878

Sherry v. McKinley

Sherry v. McKinley. The rulings in De Treville v. Smalls (98 U. S. 517) and in Keely v. Sanders [supra, p. 441) reaffirmed. Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee. This is a bill filed by McKinley and others in the Chancery Co

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

Affirmed 1878

Clark v. United States

Clark v. United States. A. residing in New Orleans and B. in Mobile during the whole rebellion, consigned cotton which they owned fo C., a supervising special agent of the Treasury Department. It arrived at Mobile on the last of July or the

99 U.S. 493 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1878

United States v. Sioux City & Pacific Railroad

United States v. Sioux City and Pacific Railroad Company. The ruling in Union Pacific Railroad Company y. United States (supra, p. 402), that the United States is not entitled to recover if, during the period for which it claims the five pe

99 U.S. 491 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1878

Montgomery v. Samory

Montgomery v. Samory. A court in Louisiana, having jurisdiction of the parties and the subject-matter of the suit, rendered a judgment in favor of the plaintiff for a debt, with lien and privilege on the -lands described in the mortgage giv

99 U.S. 482 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1878

Railway Co. v. Alling

Railway Company v. Alling. Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company v. Cañon City and San Juan Railway Company. 1. Where the trustees or directors of a corporation have appealed from a decree, and directed their counsel to prosecute the appeal

99 U.S. 463 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1878

United States v. Denver Pacific Railway Co.

United States v. Denver Pacific Railway Company. The Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company is not liable for the debt incurred by the Kansas Pacific' Railway Company on account of subsidy bonds; and although it is bound to perform th

99 U.S. 460 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded 1878

United States v. Kansas Pacific Railway Co.

United States v. Kansas Pacific Railway Company. 1. The bonds granted by the United States to the Kansas Pacific Railway Company are not a lien on, nor is the company liable for five per cent of the net earnings of, that portion of its road

99 U.S. 455 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded 1878

United States v. Central Pacific Railroad

United States v. Central Pacific Railroad Company. 1. This ease, in all material respects, involves the same questions as Union Pacific Railroad Company v. United States (supra, p. 402), and the court adheres to the conclusion there announc

99 U.S. 449 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Tax Law 1878

Keely v. Sanders

Keely v. Sanders. 1. The court reaffirms the doctrine in De Treville v. Smalls (98 TJ. S. 517), that the certificate given by the commissioners to the purchaser of lands at a sale for a direct tax, under the act of June 7, 1862 (12 Stat. 42

99 U.S. 441 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1878

Parsons v. Jackson

Parsons v. Jackson. Certain bonds of a railroad company in Louisiana, promising to pay to the bearer either £225 sterling in London, or fl,000 in New York or in New Orleans, declared that the president of the company was authorized to fix b

99 U.S. 434 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1878

Union Pacific Railroad v. United States

Union Pacific Railroad Company v. United States. 1. The act entitled “ An Act to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for

99 U.S. 402 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1878

Smith v. Railroad Co.

Smith v. Railroad Company. 1. The jurisdiction of the Federal courts cannot be affected by State legislation, and they will enforce equitable rights created by such legislation if they have jurisdiction of the subject-matter and the parties

99 U.S. 398 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Hartman v. Bean

Hartman v. Bean. A. purchased, May 8,1875, certain high wines from B., which the latter had produced and removed from his distillery to the bonded warehouse, the tax not having been paid on them. The collector of internal revenue was duly n

99 U.S. 393 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Tax Law 1878

Hale v. Frost

Hale v. Frost. 1. Mortgages of the road and present and subsequently acquired property oí a railroad company, executed to secure the payment of its bonds, are, while it retains possession, a prior lien upon the net earnings of the road. 2.

99 U.S. 389 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Ryan v. Railroad Co.

Ryan v. Railroad Company. 1. An act of Congress (14 Stilt. 239) granted to a railroad company, to aid in the construction of its road, every section of public land designated by odd numbers, to the amount of “twenty alternate sections per m

99 U.S. 382 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1878

Van Norden v. Morton

Van Norden v. Morton. Whenever a statute grants a new right, or a new remedy for the violation of an old right, or whenever such rights and remedies are dependent on State statutes or on acts of Congress, the jurisdiction, as between the la

99 U.S. 378 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1878

United States v. Winchester

United States v. Winchester. 1. The admiralty jurisdiction of the district courts of the United States does not extend to seizures made on land. 2. The Abandoned and Captured Property Act of March 12, 1863 (12 Stat. 820), did not repeal the

99 U.S. 372 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion