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Affirmed 1878

County On Schuyler v. Thomas

County on Schuyler v. Thomas. 1. The court again decides that the authority conferred by the charter of a railroad company in Missouri upon the county court of any county in which a part of the road of the company might be, to subscribe to

98 U.S. 169 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Civil Rights 1878

Reynolds v. States

Reynolds v. United States. L Sect. 808 of the Revised Statutes, providing for impanelling grand juries and prescribing the number of which they shall consist, applies only to the Circuit and the District Courts of the United States. An indi

98 U.S. 145 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded 1878

Dumont v. States

Dumont v. United States. 1. A bond given at the port of New York,.when certain goods were imported, was conditioned that the importer should pay $425, — that being the estimated duty based on the invoice, — or the amount which should be sub

98 U.S. 142 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a 1878

Citizens' Bank v. Board of Liquidation

Citizens’ Bank v. Board of Liquidation. 1. Where the record shows that a Federal question was not necessarily involved, this court has no jurisdiction to -review the decision of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, that the act passed Jan. 24, 1

98 U.S. 140 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded Intellectual Property 1878

Powder Co. v. Powder Works

Powder Company v. Powder Works. 1. Reissued letters-patent must be for the same invention as that which formed the subject of the original letters; or for a part thereof when divisional reissues are granted. They must not contain any thing

98 U.S. 126 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1878

National Bank v. Grand Lodge

National Bank v. Grand Lodge. An association having issued bonds, some of which were as collateral security in the hands of its creditors, a corporation adopted a resolution whereby it assumed the payment of the bonds, provided that stock w

98 U.S. 123 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Wirth v. Branson

Wirth v. Branson. 1. Where, in ejectment, it appeared that a location of a military bounty land-warrant, duly made by A. on the demanded premises, the same being a part of the surveyed public land of the United States, had not been vacated

98 U.S. 118 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Bradley v. States

Bradley v. United States. A. and the Postmaster-General executed an indenture, whereby the former leased to the United States, for the use of the Post-office Department, at an annual rent of §4,200, payable quarterly, a building in Washingt

98 U.S. 104 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1878

County of Daviess v. Huidekoper

County of Daviess v. Huidekoper. Where, pursuant to the assent given by two-thirds of the qualified voters of a county in Missouri, at an election therein, stock in a railway company, which afterwards constructed its road through the county

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

Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1878

Snell v. Insurance Co.

Snell v. Insurance Company. A., a member of the firm of A., B., & Co., who were the owners of cotton, communicated the facts touching its ownership, situation, value, and risk, so far as he knew them, to C., a duly accredited agent of an in

98 U.S. 85 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Remanded 1878

Ivinson v. Hutton

Ivinson v. Hutton. A. and B., having arranged the terms on which the partnership between them should be dissolved, stipulated that their clerk should examine their books, ascertain the amount which each had put into the firm and each had dr

98 U.S. 79 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Garratt v. Seibert

Garratt v. Seibert. Reissued letters-patent No. 5328, granted to William T. Garratt March 18, 1873, for a new and useful improvement in lubricators, infringe letters-patent No. 111,881, granted to Nicholas Seibert Feb. 14,1871, for a new an

98 U.S. 75 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1878

Williams v. Hagood

Williams v. Hagood. Where a bill shows no equity in the complainant, and contains no averment that he has been injured by certain statutes of a State, this court will not pass upon an abstract question the object of which is plainly to obta

98 U.S. 72 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

States v. Throckmorton

United States v. Throckmorton. 1. It is essential to a bill in chancery on behalf of the United States to set aside a patent for lands, or the final confirmation of a Mexican grant, that it shall appear in some tvay, without regard to the s

98 U.S. 61 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1878

Peters v. Bowman

Peters v. Bowman. 1. In a suit to enforce a lien for the purchase-money, where there has been no fraud and no eviction, actual or constructive, the vendee, or the party in possession of the lands under him, cannot controvert the title of th

98 U.S. 56 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1878

Kesner v. Trigg

Kesner v. Trigg. ■1. In Virginia, a party cannot avail himself of the defence of usury, without averring and proving it, and he is required to pay the principal of his debt. 2. Where a party at the time of contracting a debt, executed to se

98 U.S. 50 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Bates v. Coe

Bates v. Coe. 1. Persons sued as infringers may, if they eomply with the statutory condition as to notice, give the special defences mentioned in the Patent Act in evidence, under the general issue. 2. Such notices, in a suit in equity, may

98 U.S. 31 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1878

Glenny v. Langdon

Glenny v. Langdon. 1. It is only through the instrumentality of his assignees that creditors can recover, and subject to the payment of their claims, the property which tlie bankrupt fraudulently transferred prior to the adjudication in ban

98 U.S. 20 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Palmer v. Low

Palmer v. Low. 1. Under Dormer v. Palmer (81 Cal. 600), which establishes a rule of property-in California, the courts of the United States accept as competent primary evidence of alcalde grants of the pueblo land of San Francisco, the reco

98 U.S. 1 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Railroad Companies v. Gaines

Railroad Companies v. Gaines. 1 A provision in the charter of a railroad company that “the capital stock of said company shall be for ever exempt from taxation, and the road, with all its fixtures and appurtenances, including workshops, mac

97 U.S. 697 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1878

Ruch v. Rock Island

Ruch v. Rock Island. 1. It is not necessary to the admissibility of a deposition, oSered to prove the . evidence given at a former trial by a witness who is now dead, that the deponent shall be able to give the exact language of such witnes

97 U.S. 693 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Affirmed 1878

Mattingly v. District of Columbia

Mattingly v. District of Columbia. 1. Congress, in exercising legislation over property and persons within the District of Columbia, may, provided no intervening rights are thereby impaired, confirm the proceedings of an officer in the Dist

97 U.S. 687 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1878

Insurance Co. v. Lewis

Insurance Company v. Lewis. The statute of Missouri of 1868 (1 Wagner's Stat., ed. 1872, p. 122, sect. 8) does not authorize a suit by a public administrator in that State against a foreign insurance company doing business there, to enforce

97 U.S. 682 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1878

Fertilizing Co. v. Hyde Park

Fertilizing Company v. Hyde Park. An act of the General Assembly of Illinois, approved March 8, 1867, incorpora ting the Northwestern Fertilizing Company, -with continued succession and existence for the term of fifty years, authorized and

97 U.S. 659 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion