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United States v. Atherton
United States v. Atherton. 1. A bill in chancefy to set aside a judgment or a decree of a court of competent jurisdiction on the ground of fraud must set out distinctly the particulars of the fraud, the names of the parties who were engaged
Draper v. Davis
Draper v. Davis. Where no security having been taken at the time of entering an order allowing an appeal from a decree passed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia sitting in general term, the appellant, within the time limited b
Hunnicutt v. Peyton
Hunnicutt v. Peyton. 1. Exceptions reserved at the trial of the cause may, within such time thereafter during the term as the judge shall deem reasonable, be reduced to form and presented to him for signature, and they are not waived by sui
Clark v. United States
Clark v. United States. A party who bribes an officer of the United States with money cannot maintain an action tq recover it. Appeal from the Court of Claims. This is a suit by-James (S. Clark and Edward Fulton, partners under the name and
Lanahan v. Sears
Lanahan v. Sears. 1 Where a party, on receiving an. absolute deed, covenants with his grantor to reconvey the lands, when the money which it was given to secure shall be paid, both instruments must be taken together as constituting á mortga
Hawley v. Upton
Hawley v. Upton. A., by his bond, acknowledged the receipt from an insurance company of ten shares of its capital stock, and agreed to pay $200 therefor, in' instalments, — one-fourth' on the receipt of the stock certificate, and the remain
Sims v. Everhardt
Sims v. Everhardt. • 1. An mlant feme covert, to whom lands in Indiana were conveyed, executed wit., her husband)' May 2Q, 1847, a deed in fee therefor, for a valuable consideration paid by the grantee to him. She was, on her petition, divo
Louisiana v. Wood
Louisiana v. Wood. 1, A city in Missouri, having lawful power to borrow money and provide for the payment of her,debts, issued her bonds for the purpose of raising the means to pay her interest-bearing debt and the expenses of her governmen
Buchanan v. Litchfield
Buchanan v. Litchfield. 1. The twelfth section of the ninth article of the Constitution of Illinois, adopted .in 1870, declares that “ no county, city, township, school district, or other municipal corporation, shall be allowed to become in
Railroad Co. v. County of Hamblen
Railroad Company v. County of Hamblen. Where, under a decree to enforce a statutory lien retained by the State upon . the property, real and personal, stock, and franchises of a railroad company, the property and franchises were sold, — Hel
Finch v. United States
Finch v. United States. While the act of July 28, 1868 (15 Stat. 125), was in force, A., the owner of two distilleries, applied to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for Tice meters for them, and deposited the'price with the collector of
Rogers v. Palmer
Rogers v. Palmer. 1. A., as attorney for B.,' procured a judgment by default in favor of the latter against C., of whose insolvency and intent to commit' a fraud on the bankrupt law he had knowledge. Held, that that knowledge was imputable
People's Bank v. Calhoun
People’s Bank v. Calhoun. 1. An action pending in a State court cannot be removed to the Circuit Court, by written stipulation, where there is nothing in the latter or the record to show that, by reason of the subject-matter, or the charact
Williams v. Bruffy
Williams v. Bruffy. 1. This court, in Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1 Wheat. 85), affirmed the constitutionality of sect. 25 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 (1 Stat. 85, re-enacted in sect. 709, Rev. Stat.), which, in certain cases therein mentio
Heryford v. Davis
Heryford v. Davis. ■1. In Missouri, where personal chattels have been sold and delivered, the vendee’s mortgage or deed of trust on them to secure the purchase-money, he still retaining possession of them, is invalid against his creditors,
Garneau v. Dozier
Garneau v. Dozier. 1. Ball v. Bangles (supra, p. 128) reaffirméd. 2. Reissued letters-pa'tent No. 6397, granted April 20,1875, to Duncan McKenzie for a new and useful improvement in baker’s ovens, must, in view of the state of the art at th
Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co. v. Davis
Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company v. Davis. 1. The invention for which reissued letters-patent No. 1904,- dated March 21, 1865, were granted to the Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Company was a set of artificial teeth, as a new article of manufac
Hentig v. Page
Hentig v. Page. The Circuit Court in a foreclosure suit appointed a receiver of the rents and profits of .the mortgaged land, and ordered that all persons who had come into the possession thereof pendente lite should surrender it to him on
The "Benefactor."
The “Benefactor.” 1. At about ten o’clock in the forenoon, when the weather was clear and fine, a steamship and a schooner were on the ocean. The schooner, having seen the steamship when six or seven miles away, kept steadily on her course.
Solomon v. Arthur
Solomon v. Arthur. Imported goods composed of cotton and silk, the latter being the component part of chief value, were, by the act of June 30,1864 (13 -Stat. 202), subject to a' duty of fifty per cent ad valorem. Error to the Circuit Court
Louisiana v. New Orleans
Louisiana v. New Orleans. 1. The obligation of contracts is impaired by such legislation as lessens the efficacy of the remedy which the law in force at the time they were made provided for enforcing them. 2. A. recovered judgment, in 1874,
The "Clara."
The “Clara.” A small schooner, having no watch on deck, was lying at anchor inside the Delaware Breakwater in a very dark'night, when vessels were constantly arriving for shelter from an approaching storm. Among them was one well manned, wh
Recknagel v. Murphy
Recknagel v. Murphy. Certain articles were imported by A. from Liverpool, Nov. 14, 1871, upon which the collector of the port, of New York exacted the duty of six cents per pound, imposed by sect. 5 of the act of July 14, 1862 (12 S*at. 547
County of Greene v. Daniel
County of Greene v. Daniel. County of Pickens v. Daniel. 1. “Where a court of county commissioners in Alabama, pursuant to the act of Dec. 31, 1868' (Pamphlet Laws of 1868, p. 514), subscribed for stock in a railroad company, and issued the
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