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Affirmed Intellectual Property 1878

Barney v. Dolph

Barney v. Dolph. After the passage of the act of July 17,1854 (10 Stat. 306), amendatory of the act of Sept. 27, 1850 (9 id. 496), commonly known as the Donation Act, a husband and wife, who, by reason of their residence and cultivation, we

97 U.S. 652 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1878

Robertson v. Cease

Robertson v. Cease. 1 Where the jurisdiction of a court of the United States depends upon the citizenship of the parties, such citizenship, and not simply their residence, must be shown by the record. 2 The ruling in Railway Company v. Rams

97 U.S. 646 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Stacey v. Emery

Stacey v. Emery. A., a collector of internal revenue, seized certain whiskey belonging to B., for the condemnation and forfeiture whereof proceedings were afterwards, at the suit of the United States, brought in the proper court. The court

97 U.S. 642 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1878

Davie v. Briggs

Davie v. Briggs. 1 A person who for seven years has not been heard of by those who, had he been alive, would naturally have heard of him, is presumed to be dead; but the law raises no presumption as to the precise time of his death. 2. The

97 U.S. 628 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

Howland v. Blake

Howland v. Blake. A., to secure the payment of money borrowed from B., mortgaged land- to the latter, who commenced proceedings in foreclosure, and obtained a decree under which he purchased the land, and received a deed therefor from the p

97 U.S. 624 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1878

Ford v. Surget

Ford v. Surget. X. The court reaffirms the doctrine in Williams v. Bruffy (96 V. S. 176), that an enactment oí the Confederate States, enforced as a law of one of the States composing that confederation, is a statute of such State, within t

97 U.S. 594 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1878

Gaussen v. United States

Gaussen v. United States. 1. The United States, in asserting its rights, is not barred by the laches of its officers or agents. 2. Duties imposed upon an officer, different in their nature from those which he was required to perform at the

97 U.S. 584 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1878

Newcomb v. Wood

Newcomb v. Wood. 1. The power, with the consent of the parties, to appoint referees, and refer to them a pending cause, is incident to all judicial administration, where the right exists to ascertain the facts as well as to pronounce the la

97 U.S. 581 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1878

Hosmer v. Wallace

Hosmer v. Wallace. 1. Pending a proceeding in a tribunal of the United States, for the confirmation of a claim to lands in California, under a Mexican grant, no portion of them embraced within the boundaries designated in the grant is open

97 U.S. 575 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Tax Law 1878

Cook v. Pennsylvania

Cook v. Pennsylvania. 1. A tax laid bj a State on the amount of sales of goods made by an auetioneei is a tax on the goods so sold. 2. The statute of Pennsylvania of May 20, 1853, modified by that of April 9 1859, requiring every auctioneer

97 U.S. 566 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1878

Gray v. Blanchard

Gray v. Blanchard. A writ of error sued out upon a judgment on a money demand will be dismissed where it affirmatively appears from the record, taken as a whole, that the amount actually in dispute is not sufficient to give this court juris

97 U.S. 564 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1878

Railway Co. v. Sayles

Railway Company v. Sayles. 1. A party who invents a new machine never used before, and procures letters-patent therefor, acquires a monopoly as against all merely formal variations thereof; but -if the advance towards the thing desired is g

97 U.S. 554 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

United States v. Claflin

United States v. Claflin. 1. An action of debt cannot be maintained by the United States to recover the penalties prescribed by the fourth section of the act of Congress approved July 18,1866 (14 Stat. 179), entitled “An Act to prevent smug

97 U.S. 546 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Welch v. Cook

Welch v. Cook. 1. The act of the legislative assembly of the District of Columbia of June 26, 1873, exempting from general taxeB for ten years thereafter such real and personal property as might be actually employed within said District for

97 U.S. 541 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1878

Coleman v. Tennessee

Coleman v. Tennessee. 1. The thirtieth section of the act of March 3, 1863 (12 Stat..731), entitled "An Act for enrolling and calling out the national forces, and for other purposes,” did not make the jurisdiction of the military tribunals

97 U.S. 509 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1878

Patterson v. Kentucky

Patterson v. Kentucky. 1. Where, by the application of the invention or- discovery for which letters-patent have been granted by the United States, tangible property comes into existence, its use is, to the same extent as that of any other

97 U.S. 501 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

Missouri, Kansas, & Texas Railway Co. v. Kansas Pacific Railway Co.

Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company v. Kansas Pacific Railway Company. 1. Subject to certain reservations and exceptions, the act of Congress of July 1, 1862 (12 Stat. 489), “ to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph l

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

Spofford v. Kirk

Spofford v. Kirk. A. employed B. to collect a claim against the United States. Before its allowance, or the issue of a warrant for its payment, he drew, in favor of C., an order on B., payable out of any moneys coming into his hands on acco

97 U.S. 484 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1878

Keith v. Clark

Keith v. Clark. 1. Where a caBe has been decided in an inferior court of a State on a single point which would give this court jurisdiction, it will not be presumed here that the Supreme Court of the State decided it on some other ground no

97 U.S. 454 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1878

Hill v. National Bank

Hill v. National Bank. A., the owner of a parcel of land, consisting of four adjoining lots, three of them having buildings thereon, conveyed it in fee to B. in trust, to secure the payment of certain notes to C. He subsequently used the la

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

Settlemier v. Sullivan

Settlemier v. Sullivan. In ejectment for lands in Oregon, the defendant claimed title under a sheriff’s deed, pursuant to a sale of them under execution sued out upon a judgment by default rendered in 1861 against A. in the State court. A c

97 U.S. 444 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1878

Stoll v. Pepper

Stoll v. Pepper. If a distiller uses material for distillation in excess of the estimated capacity of his distillery, according to the survey made and returned under the provisions of the law regulating that subject, but, in the regular cou

97 U.S. 438 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1878

Mimmack v. United States

Mimmack v. United States. Charges of drunkenness on duty having been preferred against A., a captain in the army, he proposed that if they should not be acted upon he would place his resignation in the hands of his commanding officer, to be

97 U.S. 426 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1878

Kendig v. Dean

Kendig v. Dean. A., a citizen of Tennessee, filed his hill in the Circuit Court of the United States, sitting in that State, against B., a citizen of Ohio. A corporation created by the laws of Tennessee was an indispensable party to any rel

97 U.S. 423 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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