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Pott v. Arthur

Pott v. Arthur. Books imported in August, 1874, were subject to a duty of twenty-five per cent ad valorem. Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. The facts are stated in the opinion of the cou

104 U.S. 735 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1881

United States v. Savings Bank

United States v. Savings Bank. 1. The Court of Claims has jurisdiction of a suit brought against the United 'States to recover back certain' taxes and penallies alleged to be of the character mentioned in sects. 3220, 3228, Rev. Stat., wher

104 U.S. 728 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Estate Planning & Probate 1881

Printing House v. Trustees

Printing House v. Trustees. 1. A corporation was created in one State to promote a benevolent enterprise) and its charter provided that the presidents of institutions organized in other States of the Union to collect funds to aid it should

104 U.S. 711 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Tax Law 1881

Savings Bank v. Archbold

Savings Bank v. Archbold. 1. The last clause of sect. 3408 of the Revised Statutes exempts savings hanks of the character there mentioned from taxation on so much of their deposits as they have invested in. securities of the United States,

104 U.S. 708 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1881

Merritt v. Welsh

Merritt v. Welsh. A., in 1879, imported sugars to which an artificial color was not given after they had been manufactured. Held, that, under schedule G, sect; 2504, Rev. Stat,' the sole test of their dutiable quality was their actual color

104 U.S. 694 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Tax Law 1881

Mason v. Sargent

Mason v. Sargent. A testator who died Dec. 4,1867, bequeathed certain personal property to trus-' tees, to be held by them in trust for Iris widow during her life, and on her death to his children. She died June 17,1872. Held, that a legacy

104 U.S. 689 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1881

Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway Co. v. United States

Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company v. United States. United States v. Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company. The provisions of the act of July 12,1876, c 179 (19 Stat. 78), touching a reduction of rates for railway

104 U.S. 687 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Reversed Business & Corporate Law 1881

Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co. v. United States

Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company v. United States. 1. A railroad company, in aid of which Congress granted land, entered, September, 1875, into a contract with the United States to transport for four years the mails over its road at

104 U.S. 680 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Civil Rights 1881

Koshkonong v. Burton

Koshkonong v. Burton. 1. The Statute of Limitations of Wisconsin applies to the coupons of a municipal bond, whether they be detached from it or not, and begins to run from the time they respectively mature. 2. The legislature has the const

104 U.S. 668 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Business & Corporate Law 1881

Union Pacific Railroad v. United States

Union Pacific Railroad Company v. United States. 1. The sixth section of the act of Congress of July 1, 1862, c. 120, incorporating tile Union Pacific Railroad Company (12 Stat. 489), constitutes a contract between the United States and the

104 U.S. 662 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Estate Planning & Probate 1881

St. Louis v. Knapp Co.

St. Louis v. Knapp Company. Where the city of St. Louis filed its bill to enjoin the defendant from completing on his premises within the city a work then in the course of construction, whereby the Mississippi River would be divided from it

104 U.S. 658 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1881

Smelting Co. v. Kemp

Smelting Company v. Kemp. 1. A patent, duly signed, countersigned, and sealed, for public lands which, at the time it was issued, the Land Department had, under the statute,"'authority to convey cannot be collaterally impeached in an action

104 U.S. 636 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded 1881

Hopt v. People

Hopt v. People. 1. Under a statute establishing degrees of the 'crime of murder, and providing that wilful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing shall be murder in the first degree, evidence that the accused was intoxicated at th

104 U.S. 631 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Personal Injury 1881

Moores v. National Bank

Moores v. National Bank. 1. The construction given by the Supreme Court of a State to a statute of limitations of the State will be followed by this court in a case decided the other way in the Circuit Court before the decision of the State

104 U.S. 625 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1881

United States v. McBratney

United States v. McBratney. The Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Colorado has no juris- • diction of an indictment against a white roan for the murder of a white man within the Ute Reservation in the State of Colorado.

104 U.S. 621 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Bankruptcy & Debt 1881

Davis v. Fredericks

Davis v. Fredericks. The court affirms the decree below, dismissing the complainant’s bill, it appearing that the lands which he seeks to subject to the payment of his claim belong to the wife of his debtor, and that the purchase-money ther

104 U.S. 618 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Tax Law 1881

Ex parte Rowland

Ex parte Rowland. 1. The 'county commissioners of a county in Alabama who were required by statute to levy and asséss such a special tax not exceeding one per cent upon the real and personal property as would be sufficient to meet the semia

104 U.S. 604 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1881

Dugger v. Bocock

Dugger v. Bocock. Inasmuch as a Federal question is not involved in the determination of the case, 1 this court has no jurisdiction.to re-examine the decree of a State court dismissing a bill brought by the vendor, of lands in Alabama, who

104 U.S. 596 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1881

Bonaparte v. Tax Court

Bonaparte v. Tax Court. The Constitution does not prohibit a State from including in the taxable property of her citizens so much of the registered public debt of another State ■ as they respectively hold, although the debtor State may exem

104 U.S. 592 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Tax Law 1881

County of Clay v. Society for Savings

County of Clay v. Society for Savings. 1. The legislation of the State of Illinois reviewed, whereunder the county of Clay issued two series of bonds, one dated Nov. 1,1869, in payment of its subscription to the stock of the Illinois Southe

104 U.S. 579 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a 1881

Ex parte Cockcroft

Ex parte Cockcroft. A person cannot appeal from a decree rendered in a suit whereto he was no* a party. Petition for a writ of mandamus. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Mr. William JE. Earle for the petitioner. There was n

104 U.S. 578 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Outcome n/a Bankruptcy & Debt 1881

Davis v. Friedlander

Davis v. Friedlander. ■1. The assignment made to assignees in bankruptcy in proceedings which were brought more than four months after attachments, issued in a chancery suit pending in a State court, were levied upon the property of the ban

104 U.S. 570 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Affirmed Intellectual Property 1881

Elwood v. Flannigan

Elwood v. Flannigan. 1. The United- States agreed.to grant to the chief of an Indian tribe two sections of land to be thereafter selected,-and - to convey them by patent. After they had been selected, he aliened them by deed, in fee,, with

104 U.S. 562 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion
Remanded Intellectual Property 1881

Merrell v. Tice

Merrell v. Tice. 1. In an action for the infringement of liis copyright-of a book, the plaintiff cannot recover without proving that, wfthin ten days from the publication thereof, he delivered two copies of sucli copyright book at the offic

104 U.S. 557 Supreme Court of the United States Read opinion

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