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Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1879

Kain v. Gibboney

Kain v. Gibboney. 1. In Virginia, since her repeal of the statute of 43d Elizabeth, c. 4, charitable bequests stand upon the same footing as other bequests, and her courts of chancery have no jurisdiction to uphold a charity where the objec

101 U.S. 362 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1879

Christian Union v. Yount

Christian Union v. Yount. 1. While a corporation must dwell in the State which created it, its existence may he elsewhere acknowledged and recognized. Its residence creates no insuperable objection to its power of contracting in another Sta

101 U.S. 352 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1879

Creswell v. Lanahan

Creswell v. Lanahan. The Ereedman’s Savings and Trust Company, chartered by an act of Congress approved March 3,1865 (13 Stat. 510), being, during a financial crisis pressed for means, its agent, with the knowledge and consent of its truste

101 U.S. 347 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1879

Langford v. United States

Langford v. United States. 1. As applicable to the government or any of its officers, the maxim that the king can do no wrong has no place in our system of constitutional law. 2. Quaere, where lands which are confessedly private property ar

101 U.S. 341 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1879

Railroad Co. v. Tennessee

Railroad Company v. Tennessee. The Constitution of Tennessee, in force in 1838, declares that “ suits may be brought against the State in such manner and in such courts as the legislature may by law direct.” The statute of 1855 providing th

101 U.S. 337 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1879

Water-Meter Co. v. Desper

Water-Meter Company v. Desper. 1. While letters-patent for a combination are not infringed if a material part of it is omitted, yet if a part which is only formally omitted is supplied .by a mechanical equivalent performing the same office

101 U.S. 332 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1879

Smith v. Ayer

Smith v. Ayer. Smith v. National Bank. 1. A principal is, in law, affected with notice of all facts, of which notice can be charged upon his attorney. 2. Parties who deal with an executor, exercising his power of disposition of the personal

101 U.S. 320 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1879

Ketchum v. St. Louis

Ketchum v. St. Louis. 1. The act of the General Assembly of Missouri, approved Jan. 7, 1865, under which the county of St. Louis loaned its bonds to the extent of $700,000, to the Pacific Eailroad Company created, on its acceptance by the c

101 U.S. 306 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1879

Fleitas v. Cockrem

Fleitas v. Cockrem. 1. A statement in the record that, an issue was “ called for trial by the court, the jury having been waived in writing,” is, in the absence of any thing to the contrary, conclusive that the requisite agreement for such

101 U.S. 301 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1879

Pacific Railroad v. Ketchum

Pacific Railroad v. Ketchum. 1. An appeal will not be dismissed upon the ground that the decree from which it was taken was rendered by consent; but no errors will be considered here which were in law waived by such consent. 2. A recital in

101 U.S. 289 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1879

Jeffrey v. Moran

Jeffrey v. Moran. A railroad company in Ohio was reorganized- under a statute of that Stab.) of -. April 11,1801, thesixth.section of which provides as follows: “The lien of the mortgages and deeds of trust authorized to be made by this act

101 U.S. 285 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1879

Greenleaf v. Goodrich

Greenleaf v. Goodrich. 1. In'1802 and .1863, A. imported into the port of Boston certain goods upon ■ -which the collector imposed, and A. under protest paid,, a duty of thirty per cent ad valorem, under the mixed-material clause of the act

101 U.S. 278 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1879

Broder v. Water Co.

Broder v. Water Company. A., a water and mining company, constructed in 1853, over public land in California, a canal, and its right, which it has ever since exercised, to use the water for mining, agricultural, and other purposes Has been

101 U.S. 274 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1879

West v. Smith

West v. Smith. 1. Where an action has been removed from a State court to the Circuit Court, the latter may, in accordance with the State practice, grant the plaintiff leave to amend his declaration by inserting new counts for the same cause

101 U.S. 263 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1879

Simmons v. Wagner

Simmons v. Wagner. 1. A tract of public land -which has been sold by the proper officer of the United States, and the purchase-money therefor paid, is not subject to entry while the sale continues in force. 2. A party in possession of lands

101 U.S. 260 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1879

Leggett v. Avery

Leggett v. Avery. 1. Where, on the surrender of letters-patent, a disclaimer of a part of the inventions described in them is filed by the patentee in the Patent Office, and reissued letters are granted for the remainder, — Held, that, if i

101 U.S. 256 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1879

Watt v. Starke

Watt v. Starke. 1. The verdict upon an issue which a court of chancery directs to be tried at law ■ is merely advisory. A motion for a new trial can be made only to that court, and the party submitting it must procure, for the use of the Ch

101 U.S. 247 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1879

Bank of America v. Banks

Bank of America v. Banks. 1. Lands in Mississippi belonging to a married woman, which she, at a stipulated rent, leased to her husband, who entered thereon and cultivated them in his own name and for his own benefit, are not, during the ter

101 U.S. 240 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1879

May v. Sloan

May v. Sloan. 1. The word “trade” in its broadest signification includes not only the business of exchanging commodities by barter, but that of buying and selling for money, or commerce and traffic generally. 2. Where, to effect a settlemen

101 U.S. 231 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1879

Jones v. Clifton

Jones v. Clifton. 1. Unless existing claims of ere’ditors are thereby impaired, a voluntary settlement of property made by a husband upon his wife is not invalid. 2. The technical reas'ons of the common law arising from the unity of husband

101 U.S. 225 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Personal Injury 1879

Pollard v. Railroad Co.

Pollard v. Railroad Company. 1. A judgment in assumpsit, brought by a husband and wife, on a contract by a carrier of passengers to carry her safely, for injuries to her while being carried, is a bar to another action of assumpsit on the sa

101 U.S. 223 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1879

Gas Co. v. Pittsburgh

Gas Company v. Pittsburgh. A gas company which contracted, for a valuable consideration, to furnish a city with gas “ free of charge," paid thereon the tax imposed by sect. 94 of the Internal Revenue Act of June 30, 1864 (13 Stat. 264), as

101 U.S. 219 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1879

Terry v. Little

Terry v. Little. 1. Where a bank charter provides that on the failure of the bank “ each stockholder shall be liable and held bound ... for any sum not exceeding twice the amount of . . . his . . . shares,” — Held, 1. That a suit in equity

101 U.S. 216 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1879

Hatch v. Dana

Hatch v. Dana. 1. Creditors of an incorporated company who have exhausted their remedy at law can, in order to obtain satisfaction of their jndgment,.proceed in equity against a stockholder to enforce his liability to the company for the am

101 U.S. 205 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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