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Remanded Bankruptcy & Debt 1878

Wolf v. Stix

Wolf v. Stix. 1. If goods sold by a debtor with intent to defraud his creditors are attached as his property in a chancery suit to recover a debt and set aside the- sale, which is brought against him and the purchaser, and the latter, with

99 U.S. 1 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1878

National Bank v. Matthews

National Bank v. Matthews. A. executed a promissory note to B., and, to secure the payment thereof, a deed of trust of lands, which was in effect a mortgage with a power of sale thereto annexed. A national bank, on the security of the note

98 U.S. 621 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1878

States v. Union Pacific Railroad

United States v. Union Pacific Railroad Company. 1. The act of March 3,1873 (17 Stat. 509), is a valid and constitutional exercise of legislative power. Congress, by requiring the Attorney-General to bring a suit in equity in the name of th

98 U.S. 569 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

States v. Sherman

United States v. Sherman. Where, under sect. 8 of the act of July 28,1866 (14 Stat. 329), the court grants a certificate that there was probable cause for the acts done by an otfieer of the United States, for which the judgment was rendered

98 U.S. 565 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Railway Co. v. Loftin

Railway Company v. Loftin. 1. The act of the General Assembly of Arkansas of Jan. 12, 1853, incorporating the Cairo and Fulton Bailroad Company, and exempting for ever its capital stock and dividends from taxation, does not so exempt the la

98 U.S. 559 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

Barnet v. National Bank

Barnet v. National Bank. 1. In a suit by a national bank against all the parties to a bill of exchange discounted by it, to recover the amount thereof, the assignees of the acceptor — the latter having made an assignment for the benefit of

98 U.S. 555 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Hendrie v. Sayles

Hendrie v. Sayles. Where, before the issue of letters-patent therefor, a party assigns his invention, and letters are lawfully issued to the assignee in his own name, the latter is entitled, where the instrument of assignment does not show

98 U.S. 546 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Railroad Co. v. Commissioners

Railroad Company v. Commissioners. 1. In Nebraska, no demand for taxes is required, but it is the duty of every person subject to taxation to attend at the office of the county treasurer and make payment. 2. Certain lands in that State, the

98 U.S. 541 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1878

Hooper v. Robinson

Hooper v. Robinson. 1. A policy upon a cargo in the name of A., “on account of whom it may concern,” or with other equivalent terms, will inure to the interest of the party for whom it was intended by A., provided he at the time of effectin

98 U.S. 528 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1878

De Treville v. Smalls

De Treville v. Smalls. 1. Where lands have been sold for an unpaid direct tax, the tax-sale certificate is, under the act of Feb. 6, 1863 (12 Stat. 640), prima facie evidence not only of a regular sale, but of all the antecedent facts which

98 U.S. 517 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1878

Brick v. Brick

Brick v. Brick. 1. Parol evidence is admissible in equity to show that a certificate of stock issued to a party as owner was delivered to him as security for a loan of money. A court of equity will look beyond the terms of an instrument to

98 U.S. 514 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1878

Reed v. McIntyre

Reed v. McIntyre. A., in due course of legal proceedings, recovered, March 14, judgment against B., a merchant who, the preceding day, had made an assignment of all his property for the benefit of his creditors. An execution was forthwith s

98 U.S. 507 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1878

Airhart v. Massieu

Airhart v. Massieu. 1. A Mexican was not, by the revolution which resulted in the independence of Texas, or by her Constitution of March 17,1836, or her laws subsequently enacted, divested of his title to lands in that State, but he retaine

98 U.S. 491 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1878

States v. Thompson

United States v. Thompson. The United States, whether named in a State statute of limitations or not, is not bound thereby; and when it sues in one of its own courts, such a statute is not within the provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1789,

98 U.S. 486 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

Railroad Co. v. Varnell

Railroad Company v. Varnell. Exceptions to the charge of the court which are in general terms, and do not clearly and specifically point out the objectionable part of it, cannot be sustained as a ground for reversing the judgment. Error to

98 U.S. 479 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1878

Harkness v. Hyde

Harkness v. Hyde. 1. Process from a district court of Idaho cannot be served upon a defendant on an Indian reservation in that Territory. 2. Illegality in the service of process by which jurisdiction is to be obtained is not waived by the s

98 U.S. 476 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

Amy v. Dubuque

Amy v. Dubuque. The Statute of Limitations of Iowa begins to run against coupon interest warrants from the time they respectively mature, although they remain attached to the bond which represents the principal debt. Error to the Circuit Co

98 U.S. 470 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

Mining Co. v. Tarbet

Mining Company v. Tarbet. 1. Under an act entitled “ An Act granting the right of way to ditch and canal companies over the public lands, and for other purposes,” approved July 20', 1866 (14 Stat. 251), as well as under that entitled “An Ac

98 U.S. 463 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

Jennison v. Kirk

Jennison v. Kirk. 1. The ninth section of the act of Congress of July 26, 1866, “granting the right of way to ditch and canal owners over the public lands, and for other purposes,” enacted, " that whenever, by priority of possession, rights

98 U.S. 453 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1878

States v. Irvine

United States v. Irvine. An indictment against A., found Sept. 15, 1875, charged that on Dec. 24,1870, B. demanded of him the sum of $525, which he as her agent and attorney had collected and received from the United States on account of a

98 U.S. 450 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1878

States v. Benecke

United States v. Benecke. 1. An indictment against A., found Sept. 11,1875, charged that in March, 1868, he, as agent and attorney of B. and C., did withhold, and continued thereafter to withhold from them, certain money which he, as their

98 U.S. 447 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

the "Abbotsford"

The “Abbotsford.” 1. Under the act of Feb. 16,18.75, which took effect May 1 of that year, entitled “ An Act to facilitate the disposition of cases in the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes” (18 Stat. 315), the findi

98 U.S. 440 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1878

Carr v. States

Carr v. United States. 1. Where the city of San Francisco, prior to the adoption of the Van Ness ordinance, made a conveyance of certain lots within the city to the United States, and another party sets up a claim to them, under the ordinan

98 U.S. 433 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1878

States v. Perot

United States v. Perot. 1. Spanish grants made in Texas for lands in the “ Neutral Ground,” east of the Sabine, from 1790 to 1800, are valid. 2. The Mexican league applicable to grants of such lands, being a square of 6000 varas on each sid

98 U.S. 428 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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