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Outcome n/a Business & Corporate Law 1880

Ex parte Perry

Ex parte Perry. This court will not by mandamus compel an inferior court to.reverse a decision made in the exercise of its jurisdiction. Petition for mandamus. The petitioners filed their libel against the ship “ Civilfa ” and the steam-tug

102 U.S. 183 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1880

Railway Co. v. Renwick

Railway Company v. Renwick. The second section of the act of the General Assembly of Iowa, entitled “ An Act in relation to riparian owners on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers,” approved March 18, 1874, is not in conflict with any statut

102 U.S. 180 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1880

Jifkins v. Sweetzer

Jifkins v. Sweetzer. 1. Where the Supreme Court of a State reversed, on appeal, a decree dismissing, upon a final hearing, the complainant’s bill, and remanded the cause with instructions to refer it to a master to state the accounts betwee

102 U.S. 177 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1880

Mining Co. v. Consolidated Mining Co.

Mining Company v. Consolidated Mining Company. 1. The grant of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections of public land to the State of California for school.purposes, made by the act of March 3,1853 (10 Stat. 246), was not intended to' cover

102 U.S. 167 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1880

Potter v. National Bank

Potter v. National Bank. In an action against an executor in his representative capacity, A., who was interested in the issue but not a party thereto, was, against the objection of the defendant, introduced as a witness by the plaintiff, an

102 U.S. 163 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1880

Seward v. Corneau

Seward v. Corneau. A bond is not sufficient for the purposes of either an appeal to' this court or a supersedeas, if the obligors are not thereby bound for the payment of costs, should the appellant fail to make his plea good. Motion to dis

102 U.S. 161 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Personal Injury 1880

Graham v. Railroad Co.

Graham v. Railroad Company. 1. Where a corporation, solvent at the time, and having no actual intent to defraud creditors, disposes of its lands for an inadequate consideration or by a voluntary conveyance, its subsequent creditors- cannot

102 U.S. 148 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1880

Langford v. Monteith

Langford v. Monteith. 1. Where an act of Congress admitting á State into the Union, or organizing a territorial government, provides, in accordance with a treaty stipulation, that the lands in the possession of an Indian tribe shall not be

102 U.S. 145 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Insurance Law 1880

Railroad Co. v. Mississippi

Railroad Company v. Mississippi. 1. A petition for la mandamus, was filed in one of her courts by the State of Mississippi to. compel a railroad company, a corporation existing under thé laws of that State, to remove a stationary bridge whi

102 U.S. 135 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1880

French v. Wade

French v. Wade. 1. A.’s lands in Louisiana were, May 6, 1865, duly forfeited to the United States by a decree of the proper court in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by the Confiscation Act of July 17, 1862 (12 Stat. 589), as modi

102 U.S. 132 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1880

Ball v. Langles

Ball v. Langles. 1. Reissued letters-patent No. 4026, granted June 14, 1870, to Hosea Ball for a new and useful improvement in ovens, are void, inasmuch as they contain new matter, and are for an invention different from that exhibited in t

102 U.S. 128 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1880

Tiernan v. Rinker

Tiernan v. Rinker. 1. An act' of the legislature of Texas, entitled “ An Act regulating taxation,” approved June 3, 1873, provides in its third section that “there shall be levied on and collected from every firm or association of persons .

102 U.S. 123 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Dismissed Insurance Law 1880

Banking Ass'n v. Insurance Ass'n

Banking Association v. Insurance Association. 1. An appeal will be dismissed wlien it appears from the record, taken as a. whole, that the amount actually in controversy is not sufficient to give the court jurisdiction’. ' 2. Gray v. Blanch

102 U.S. 121 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed 1880

Railway Co. v. Heck

Railway Company v. Heck. Neither the charge, of the court below, if no exception was taken thereto before the final submission of the case to the jury, nor the granting or the refusing a new trial, is. subject to review here. Error to the C

102 U.S. 120 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Personal Injury 1880

Schoonmaker v. Gilmore

Schoonmaker v. Gilmore. The courts of the United States, as courts of admiralty, have not exclusive jurisdiction of suits in personam, growing out of'collisions between vessels while navigating the Ohio River..' Motion to dismiss a writ of.

102 U.S. 118 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1880

Pearce v. Mulford

Pearce v. Mulford. 1. To entitle an improvement to protection under the patent laws, it. must he ■the product of the exercise of the inventive faculties, and involve something beyond what is obvious to persons skilled in the art to which it

102 U.S. 112 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1880

Giddings v. Insurance Co.

Giddings v. Insurance Company. Tlie charter of A., a mutual life insurance company, provides that “ every person who shall become a member of the corporation,-by effecting insurance therein, shall, the first time he effects insurance and be

102 U.S. 108 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1880

Brooks v. Railroad Co.

Brooks v. Railroad Company. A petition for a rehearing cannot be filed after the, term at which the judgment was rendered. Motion for leave to file a petition for rehearing. This case was, on appeal from the Circuit Court of the United Stat

102 U.S. 107 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Intellectual Property 1880

Parks v. Booth

Parks v. Booth. T. Reissued letters-pátent No. 1826, granted Nov. 29, 1864, to Jonathan L. Booth for a new and useful improvement in grain-separators, áre.valid. 2. A specification describing an invention consisting merely of' a new combina

102 U.S. 96 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1880

Menasha v. Hazard

Menasha v. Hazard. 1. A town in Wisconsin, being thereunto authorized by law, subscribed for stock in a railroad company, and issued its bonds in payment therefor, each reciting that "it “ shall be valid only when it 'is thereon duly certif

102 U.S. 81 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1880

Gay v. Alter

Gay v. Alter. By the law of Louisiana, a party to a synallagmatic contract has no right to rescind it by reason of the failure of performance by the other party, unless he returns to the latter what .was received from him, so as .to put him

102 U.S. 79 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1880

Kirk v. Hamilton

Kirk v. Hamilton. 1. In 1859, M. & Co., judgment creditors of A., filed their bill in the Circuit Court .of the District of Columbia, against him and others, setting forth that he had, without consideration arid with intent to defraud his.

102 U.S. 68 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Employment Law 1880

Casey v. Adams

Casey v. Adams Actions, local in their nature, may be maintained in the proper State court against a national banking association in a county or a city other than that where it is established. Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Loui

102 U.S. 66 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Business & Corporate Law 1880

United States v. Peck

United States v. Peck. Peck v. United States. 1. Parol evidence of the surrounding circumstances is admissible to show the subject-matter of a contract. 2. The conduct of one party to a contract which prevents the other from performing his

102 U.S. 64 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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