6 U.S. 272 2 Cranch 272 2 L.Ed. 276 OGDEN, administrator of CORNELL v. BLACKLEDGE, executor of SALTER. February Term, 1804 Syllabus THIS case came before the court on a certificate of a division of the judges of the circuit court of the district of North Carolina. The certificate set forth: ‘United States of America, […]
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Mason v. Blaireau, 6 U.S. 240 (1804)
6 U.S. 240 2 Cranch 240 2 L.Ed. 266 WILLIAM MASON and others, libellants v. The Ship BLAIREAU. February Term, 1804 Syllabus APPEAL from the circuit court of Maryland. The French merchant ship, The Blaireau, laden with sugar and coffee, and bound from Martinique to Bordeaux, on the night of the 30th of March, was […]
Church v. Hubbart, 6 U.S. 187 (1804)
6 U.S. 187 2 Cranch 187 2 L.Ed. 249 CHURCH v. HUBBART. February Term, 1804 Syllabus ERROR to the circuit court of the district of Massachusetts. In the circuit court of Massachusetts, John Barker Church, Jun. instituted an action against the defendant on two policies of insurance, whereby he had caused to be insured twenty […]
Blakeney v. Evans, 6 U.S. 185
6 U.S. 185 2 Cranch 185 2 L.Ed. 248 BLAKENEY v. EVANS. February Term 1804 A SPECIAL action of assumpsit was brought, in the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, sitting at Alexandria, by Evans against Blakeney, upon the following written agreement: I will rent of Mr. Evans thirty-one feet of ground on?King-street by […]
Dunlop & Co. v. Ball, 6 U.S. 180 (1804)
6 U.S. 180 2 Cranch 180 2 L.Ed. 246 DUNLOP & CO. v. BALL. February Term, 1804 Syllabus ERROR to the circuit court of the county of Alexandria. The plaintiffs in error instituted a suit in 1802, in the circuit court, upon a bond executed in 1773, by the defendant, a citizen of Virginia, to […]
Little v. Barreme, 6 U.S. 170 (1804)
6 U.S. 170 2 Cranch 170 2 L.Ed. 243 LITTLE et al. v. BARREME et al. February Term, 1804 Syllabus Appeal from the circuit court of Massachusetts. On the 9th of February 1799 an act was passed by congress, entitled ‘an act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and […]
Head v. The Providence Insurance Co., 6 U.S. 127 (1804)
6 U.S. 127 2 Cranch 127 2 L.Ed. 229 HEAD and AMORY v. The PROVIDENCE INSURANCE COMPANY. February Term, 1804 Syllabus THIS was a writ of error to the circuit court of the first circuit, held at Providence, Rhode Island, under the act of congress of the 13th of February 1801. In that court the […]
Capron v. Noorden, 6 U.S. 126 (1804)
6 U.S. 126 2 Cranch 126 2 L.Ed. 229 CAPRON v. VAN NOORDEN. February Term, 1804 ERROR to the circuit court of North Carolina. The plaintiff, without describing himself as an alien or citizen, instituted an action of trespass in the case against the defendant, said to be ‘late of Pitt county,’ and a verdict […]
Murray v. Betsy, 6 U.S. 64 (1804)
6 U.S. 64 2 Cranch 64 2 L.Ed. 208 ALEXANDER MURRAY v. The Schooner CHARMING BETSY. February Term, 1804 Syllabus APPEAL from the circuit court of Pennsylvania. In the district court of Pennsylvania, a libel was filed by Alexander Murray, esquire, for himself and others, against the schooner Charming Betsy, founded on the act of […]
Pennington v. Coxe, 6 U.S. 33 (1804)
6 U.S. 33 2 Cranch 33 2 L.Ed. 199 PENNINGTON v. COXE. February Term, 1804 Syllabus IN the circuit court of the United States for the Pennsylvania district an action was instituted and a feigned issue formed to try the question whether sugar which had been refined and was in the manufactory previous to the […]
Faw v. Marsteller, 6 U.S. 10 (1804)
6 U.S. 10 2 Cranch 10 2 L.Ed. 191 FAW v. MARSTELLER. February Term, 1804 Syllabus APPEAL by the defendant in the court below, from the circuit court of the county of Washington, in the district of Columbia. In the month of May 1779, the executors of John Alexander, in pursuance of a power contained […]