Category: 1863

68 U.S. 375 68 U.S. 375 17 L.Ed. 686 1 Wall. 375 IASIGI ET AL.v.THE COLLECTOR. December Term, 1863 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. Iasigi & Goddard imported a cargo of wool from the Cape of Good Hope to Boston, which was invoiced, and, on the 16th March, 1860, entered […]

68 U.S. 384 68 U.S. 384 17 L.Ed. 564 1 Wall. 384 MEYERv.THE CITY OF MUSCATINE. December Term, 1863 1 ERROR to the District Court of the United States, for the District of Iowa, the case being thus: 2 The city of Muscatine was incorporated, A.D. 1851, by the legislature of Iowa, and by its […]

68 U.S. 398 68 U.S. 398 17 L.Ed. 543 1 Wall. 398 WOODSv.FREEMAN. December Term, 1863 FREEMAN sued Woods in ejectment, in the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois, to recover possession of the southwest quarter of section three (3) of township eight (8) north of range three (3) west of the fourth […]

68 U.S. 400 68 U.S. 400 17 L.Ed. 633 1 Wall. 400 UNITED STATESv.MORENO. December Term, 1863 ON an appeal from the decree of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California, the record disclosed the following facts: On the 5th of April, 1845, Moreno submitted to Pio Pico, then […]

68 U.S. 340 68 U.S. 340 17 L.Ed. 581 1 Wall. 340 BLOOMERv.MILLINGER. December Term, 1863 BLOOMER, the appellant here, filed a bill in equity in the Circuit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He set forth in it that he was owner of the exclusive right to make and use, and vend to […]

68 U.S. 352 68 U.S. 352 17 L.Ed. 613 1 Wall. 352 UNITED STATESv.AUGUISOLA. December Term, 1863 THIS was an appeal by the United States from a decree of the District Court for the Southern District of California, confirming to one Auguisola a tract of land in California. After the cession of California to the […]

68 U.S. 359 68 U.S. 359 17 L.Ed. 642 1 Wall. 359 SCHUCHARDTv.ALLENS. December Term, 1863 THIS was an action on the case for false warranty, and for deceit in the sale of one hundred casks of Dutch madder; and was brought in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. The declaration […]

68 U.S. 371 68 U.S. 371 17 L.Ed. 502 1 Wall. 371 HARDYv.JOHNSON. December Term, 1863 WRIT of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of California; the action having been ejectment, by Johnson against Hardy and wife, to recover a parcel of land in the city of Oakland, […]

68 U.S. 317 68 U.S. 317 17 L.Ed. 684 1 Wall. 317 GODFREYv.EAMES. December Term, 1863 THE Patent Act of 1836, provides1 that on the filing of an application for a patent, ‘the commissioner shall make or cause to be made an examination of the alleged new invention or discovery, and if on any such […]

68 U.S. 326 68 U.S. 326 17 L.Ed. 597 1 Wall. 326 UNITED STATESv.JOHNSON. December Term, 1863 APPEAL from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of California, the case being thus: Johnson and others, the respondents, claimed title under the Mexican government, through one Chaves, to a tract of land […]

68 U.S. 330 68 U.S. 330 17 L.Ed. 553 1 Wall. 330 JONESv.GREEN ET AL. December Term, 1863 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Nebraska, the case being thus: In February, 1859, C. and J. Green and C. and I. Gill filed a bill in Chancery in the District Court of the […]

68 U.S. 333 68 U.S. 333 17 L.Ed. 563 1 Wall. 333 BAKERv.GEE. December Term, 1863 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri, the case being thus: 2 On the 10th June, 1852, Congress, by statute,1 granted to the State of Missouri, to aid in building railroads from Hannibal to St. […]

68 U.S. 337 68 U.S. 337 17 L.Ed. 557 1 Wall. 337 LEE ET AL.v.WATSON. December Term, 1863 LEE and Leavit brought assumpsit in the Circuit Court for the Kentucky District, against Watson, declaring on a promissory note for $610, with a count for $1000 money due for goods sold; $1000 money had and received; […]

68 U.S. 282 68 U.S. 282 17 L.Ed. 594 1 Wall. 282 MALARINv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1863 THIS was an appeal by Malarin and another, executors of Pacheco, from the decree of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of California; the case being thus: Pacheco claimed a tract of land […]

68 U.S. 291 68 U.S. 291 17 L.Ed. 538 1 Wall. 291 VAN HOSTRUPv.MADISON CITY. December Term, 1863 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Indiana. The suit was brought in the court below against the city of Madison, in Indiana, for moneys due upon coupons attached to certain bonds issued by the […]

68 U.S. 298 68 U.S. 298 17 L.Ed. 540 1 Wall. 298 MILLERv.TIFFANY. December Term, 1863 TIFFANY filed a bill against Miller and wife, in the Circuit Court for the District of Indiana, to foreclose a mortgage which the last-named persons had given to Palmer, a merchant of New York, and Wallace, an attorney at […]

68 U.S. 311 68 U.S. 311 17 L.Ed. 595 1 Wall. 311 UNITED STATESv.D’AGUIRRE. December Term, 1863 APPEAL by the United States from the District Court for the Southern District of California; the case being thus: D’Aguirre, in right of his wife Donna Maria Estudillo, claimed a tract of land in California under a grant […]

68 U.S. 254 68 U.S. 254 17 L.Ed. 584 1 Wall. 254 DUNHAMv.THE CINCINNATI, PERU, &C., RAILWAY COMPANY. December Term, 1863 THIS was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana, made in a case in which Dunham was complainant, and the Cincinnati, Peru, and […]

68 U.S. 269 68 U.S. 269 17 L.Ed. 580 1 Wall. 269 STURGISv.CLOUGH. December Term, 1863 ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, the case being thus: The steamer Mabey had injured the steamer Hector in a collision, and had been libelled for damages. It being […]

68 U.S. 272 68 U.S. 272 17 L.Ed. 553 1 Wall. 272 SEYBERTv.CITY OF PITTSBURG. December Term, 1863 THE legislature of Pennsylvania incorporated a railway company, by act of Assembly, one section of which enacted that any incorporated CITY should have authority to subscribe to the stock ‘as fully as any individual,’ but the act […]