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Outcome n/a Tax Law 1879

Jones v. Blackwell

Jones v. Blackwell. Manufactured tobacco shipped in bond from the manufactory and stored in an export bonded warehouse on the 14th of June, 1872, was subject to the tax of thirty-two cents per pbund, prescribed by the internal-revenue act o

100 U.S. 599 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1879

Railroad Co. v. Collector

Railroad Company v. Collector. 1. The tax on interest paid by corporations under sect. 122 of the internal-revenue law, as amended by the act of .July 13, I860 (14 Stat. 138), is an excise tax on tiieir business, to be paid by them out of t

100 U.S. 595 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1879

County of Cass v. Gillett

County of Cass v. Gillett. 1. The court adheres to its rulings in County of Henry v. Nicolay (95 U. S. 619), that the provisions of sect. 14, art. 11, of the Constitution adopted by Missouri in 1865, which require the assent of two-thirds o

100 U.S. 585 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1879

Dickerson v. Colgrove

Dickerson v. Colgrove. A., the owner in fee of lands in Michigan, died in February, 1853, leaving his two children B. and C. his only heirs-at-law. On March 3, C. and her husband conveyed the lands by warranty deed to D., who put it upon re

100 U.S. 578 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1879

Montgomery v. Sawyer

Montgomery v. Sawyer. In Louisiana, if a person dies pending suit against him, and the proceedings are continued by his heirs becoming parties, the judgment should be against his succession or them; if, without reference to the revival of t

100 U.S. 571 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1879

Meeks v. Olpherts

Meeks v. Olpherts. 1. The statute of California which provides that no action for the recovery of real estate sold by order of a probate court “ shall be maintained by any heir or other person claiming under the intestate," unless brought w

100 U.S. 564 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1879

Newton v. Commissioners

Newton v. Commissioners. 1. By an act of the legislature of Ohio, passed Neb. 16,1846, it was provided that, upon the fulfilment of certain terms and conditions by the proprietors or citizens of the town of Canfield, in Mahoning County, the

100 U.S. 548 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1879

Williams v. Weaver

Williams v. Weaver. The decision of the Court of Appeals of the State of New York, that, in the absence of fraud or intentional wrong, the members of the board of assessors for the city of Albany are not personally liable in damages to a pa

100 U.S. 547 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Tax Law 1879

People v. Weaver

People v. Weaver. 1. The provision in sect. 6219 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, that State taxation on the shares of .any national banking association shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed on other moneyed capital i

100 U.S. 539 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1879

United States v. Murray

United States v. Murray. 1. Owing to the partial exhaustion of the appropriation, A., a clerk in the Treasury Department, was granted leave of absence without pay for five months from Eeb. 1, 1874. He performed no service thereafter. His na

100 U.S. 536 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1879

Mount Pleasant v. Beckwith

Mount Pleasant v. Beckwith. 1. Where no constitutional restriction is imposed, the corporate existence and powers of counties, cities, and towns are subject to the legislative control of the State creating them. • 2. Where a municipal corpo

100 U.S. 514 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Immigration Law 1879

United States v. Bowen

United States v. Bowen. 1. The Revised Statutes of the United States must he accepted as the law on the subjects which they embrace as it existed on the first day of December, 1873. When their meaning is plain, the court cannot recur to the

100 U.S. 508 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1879

Parish v. United States

Parish v. United States. 1. The acts of the Assistant Surgeon-General, appointed under the act of Congress and located at St. Louis, are the acts of the Surgeon-General, and have the same validity until countermanded or revoked. 2. Where pa

100 U.S. 500 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1879

Kirtland v. Hotchkiss

Kirtland v. Hotchkiss. 1. This court can afford the citizen of a State no relief from the enforcement of her laws prescribing the mode and subjects of taxation, if they neither trench upon Federal authority nor violate any right recognized

100 U.S. 491 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Estate Planning & Probate 1879

Hauenstein v. Lynham

Hauenstein v. Lynham. 1. In the absence of proof that an alien has become a citizen of the United States, his original status is presumed to continue. 2. A., a citizen of Switzerland, died in 1861 in Virginia intestate and without issue. Eo

100 U.S. 483 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1879

Meyer v. Construction Co.

REMOVAL CASES. Meyer v. Construction Company; Construction Company v. Meyer; Railroad Company v. Meyer. 1. The provision in the first clause of the second section of the act entitled “ An Act to determine the jurisdiction of circuit courts

100 U.S. 457 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1879

Case v. Bank

Case v. Bank. A., in order to secure the payment of his note to B., pledged to the latter certain shares of the capital stock of a national bank in Louisiana, with authority to sell them in default of such payment. Default having been made,

100 U.S. 446 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1879

Pierce v. Wade

Pierce v. Wade. Where in replevin judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for a portion of the property delivered under- the writ, and in favor of the defendant for a return of the residue, or its value, the same not being §5,000, a

100 U.S. 444 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Tax Law 1879

Guy v. Baltimore

Guy v. Baltimore. 1. A State cannot, in the exercise of her taxing power, impose upon the products of another State, brought * ithin her limits for sale or use, a more onerous-burden or tax than upon like products of her own territory, nor

100 U.S. 434 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1879

Vicksburg v. Tobin

Vicksburg v. Tobin. 1. The ordinance of the city of Vicksburg passed July 12, 1865, entitled " An ordinance establishing the rate of wharfage to be collected from steamboats and other water-craft landing and lying at the City of Vicksburg,”

100 U.S. 430 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1879

Packet Co. v. St. Louis

Packet Company v. St. Louis. 1. A municipal corporation, owning improved wharves and other artificial means which it maintains, at its own cost, for the benefit of those engaged in com meree upon the public navigable waters of the United St

100 U.S. 423 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1879

Ex parte Clarke

Ex parte Clarke. 1. An officer of election, at an election for a representative to Congress in the city of Cincinnati, was convicted of a misdemeanor in the Circuit Court of the United States, under sect. 5515 of the Revised Statutes, for a

100 U.S. 399 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1879

Ex parte Siebold

Ex parte Siebold. 1. The appellate jurisdiction of this court, exercisible by the writ of habeas corpus, extends to a' case of imprisonment upon conviction and sentence of a party by an inferior court of the United States, under' and by vir

100 U.S. 371 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Family Law 1879

Ex parte Virginia

Ex parte Virginia. 1. A., a judge of a county court in Virginia, charged by the law of that State with the selection of jurors to serve for the year 1878 in the circuit and county courts of his county, was, in the District Court of the Unit

100 U.S. 339 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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