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Montclair v. Ramsdell
Montclair v. Ramsdell. 1. The township of Montclair in the county of Essex, New Jersey, had authority to issue bonds to be exchanged for bonds of the Montclair Railway Company. 2. The Constitution of New Jersey provides: “ To avoid improper
Hoffheins v. Russell
Hoffheins v. Russell. 1, Claims 1, 8, 9,11,12,14,16, and 19 of reissued letters-patent No. 2224, granted April 10, 1866, to Reuben Holfheins, for an “improvement in harvesters,” the original, No. 35,315, having been granted to him May 20, 1
Potter v. United States
Potter v. United States. 1. The local land-officeis are not required to meet and jointly consider-the proof of settlement and cultivation offered by claimants under the pre-emption laws. 2. In his accounts with the government, a receiver of
Kendall v. United States
Kendall v. United States. 1. In computing the six years after his claim against the United States first ac- • crues within which it may be filed in the' Court of Claims, the period must be included when the claimant was unable to sue in tha
Bush v. Kentucky
Bush v. Kentucky. 1. Where the Circuit Court quashes an indictment, found against the prisoner in a State court, wherefrom the cause was on his petition removed, it has no jurisdiction to proceed against him for the crime against the State
Myrick v. Michigan Central Railroad
Myrick v. Michigan Central Railroad Company. 1. In the absence of a special contract, a railroad company, by receiving cattle for transportation over its own line and other lines therewith connected, is only bound to carry the cattle over i
Green Bay & Minnesota Railroad v. Union Steamboat Co.
Green Bay and Minnesota Railroad Company v. Union Steamboat Company. A railroad corporation, whose railroad extends across the State of Wisconsin from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River, and which is authorized, hy its charter, to make
Hall v. Macneale
Hall v. Macneale. 1. Whether claim 3 of letters-patent No. 67,046, granted to Joseph L. Hall, July 23, 1867, for an “ improvement in connecting doors and casings of safes,” — namely, “ 3. -The conical or tapering arbors, 1, in combination w
Schmidt v. Badger
Schmidt v. Badger. Under schedules B and D of 6eet. 2504 of the Revised Statutes, ale and beer imported in bottles is subject to a duty of thirty-five cents per gallon, and a further duty of thirty per cent ad valorem, is imposed on the bot
Cushing v. Laird
Cushing v. Laird. Foster v. Cushing. 1. When persons summoned as garnishees in a libel in admiralty in personam are adjudged by the court to have a fund of the principal defendant in their hands and to pay it into court, and tile libellant
United States v. Teller
United States v. Teller. By a special act, B. was allowed a pension of fifty dollars per month, which was paid to him until he claimed and received, under a subsequent general act, seventy-two dollars per month. Held, that he is not entitle
People v. Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
People v. Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. I.1 The statute of New York of May 31, 1881, imposing a tax on every alien , passenger who shall come by vessel from a foreign country to the port of New York, and holding the vessel liable for
Turner v. Maryland
Turner v. Maryland. 1. Section 41 of chapter 846 of the laws of Maryland of 1864, as amended and reenacted by chapter 291 of the laws pf 1870, provides as follows : “.After the passage of this act; L shall not be lawful to carry out of this
Burgess v. Seligman
Burgess v. Seligman. 1. By a statute of Missouri, stockholders of a corporation at its dissolution are liable for its debts; but it is provided that no person holding stock as executor, administrator, guardian, or trustee, and no person hol
Embry v. Palmer
Embry v. Palmer. 1. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia is a court of the United States, and its judgment, when suit is brought thereon in any State of the Union, is, under the legislation of Congress, conclusive upon the defendan
United States v. Erie Railway Co.
United States v. Erie Railway Company. The court denies an application for rehearing in this case, decided at the present term, 106 IT. S. 327. Petition for rehearing. The Solicitor-General for the'United States. Mr. William D. Shipman, con
Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Cummings
Grand Trunk Railway Company v. Cummings. 1. Although the refusal, at the close of the testimony for the plaintiff, to direct a verdict for the defendants would justify a reversal of a judgment against them, yet if they proceed with their de
Gay v. Parpart
Gay v. Parpart. 1. When a party offers in evidence an instrument concerning real estate which has been acknowledged or proved so as to be. admitted to record, and read in evidence, the burden of proof is on the party denying its execution;
Hayward v. Andrews
Hayward v. Andrews. 1. The assignee of a chose in action cannot proceed in equity to enforce, for his own use, the legal right of his assignors, merely upon the ground that he cannot maintain an action at law in his own name. So held, where
County of Kankakee v. Ætna Life Insurance
County of Kankakee v. Ætna Life Insurance Company. 1. The charter of the Kankakee and Illinois River Railroad Company does-not limit the operation and effect of the general laws of Illinois, which confer power upon counties to subscribe for
Chickaming v. Carpenter
Chickaming v. Carpenter. 1. Where the amount involved is sufficient, the citizen of a State other than Michigan, who holds bonds of a municipal corporation in Michigan, may, in the proper Circuit Court of the United States, maintain an acti
McGinty v. Flannagan
McGinty v. Flannagan. The court below instructed the jury that it was the duty of a surviving member of a firm to convert its property into money, collect debts due to it, and first apply them to the payment of its debts due, and that if he
Fitzpatrick v. Flannagan
Fitzpatrick v. Flannagan. 1. Leave to amend the affidavit, by inserting a new ground ‘for an attachment sued out in Mississippi, is not the subject of a valid exception, it not appearing that the defendant was thereby prejudiced. 2. Where a
The "Sterling" v. The "Equator"
The “Sterling” and The “Equator.” 1. A decree against two vessels at fault should he, not in solido for the full amount of damages sustained by the libellant, but severally against each' for one-half of his damage and costs, any balance whi
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