Category: 1863

68 U.S. 274 68 U.S. 274 17 L.Ed. 536 1 Wall. 274 GREGGv.VON PHUL. December Term, 1863 VON PHUL and Gregg entered into articles of agreement on the 6th of December, 1856, by which Von Phul agreed to sell and convey to Gregg certain premises in Peoria, which Gregg agreed to purchase, paying Von Phul […]

68 U.S. 23 68 U.S. 23 17 L.Ed. 500 1 Wall. 23 POMEROY’S LESSEEv.THE STATE BANK OF INDIANA. December Term, 1863 A STATUTE of Indiana passed in 1834, enacted as follows: ‘That there shall be and is hereby created and established a State Bank, to be known and styled the ‘State Bank of Indians,’ and […]

68 U.S. 234 68 U.S. 234 17 L.Ed. 534 1 Wall. 234 BALDWINv.BANK OF NEWBURY. December Term, 1863 THE Bank of Newbury, a corporation, at the time of the suit and now, established in Vermont, brought an action of assumpsit in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Massachusetts district against Baldwin, upon […]

68 U.S. 243 68 U.S. 243 17 L.Ed. 589 1 Wall. 243 EX PARTE VALLANDIGHAM. December Term, 1863 THIS case arose on the petition of Clement L. Vallandigham for a certiorari, to be directed to the Judge Advocate General of the Army of the United States, to send up to this court, for its review, […]

68 U.S. 25 68 U.S. 25 17 L.Ed. 604 1 Wall. 25 CLEARWATERv.MEREDITH ET AL. December Term, 1863 UNDER the provisions of a statute of Indiana, passed May 11, 1852, for the incorporation of railroads, the Cincinnati, Cambridge & Chicago Short Line Railway Company—frequently entitled throughout the case, for brevity, ‘The Short Line Railway’—was created […]

68 U.S. 175 68 U.S. 175 17 L.Ed. 520 1 Wall. 175 GELPCKE ET AL.v.THE CITY OF DUBUQUE. December Term, 1863 THE Constitution of the State of Iowa, adopted in 1846, contains the following provisions, to wit: ‘ART. 1. § 6. All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation.’ ‘ART. 3. § […]

68 U.S. 220 68 U.S. 220 17 L.Ed. 530 1 Wall. 220 Gelpckev.City of Dubuque December Term, 1863 THIS suit differed from 80—the principal one—only in the fact that the bonds of the city, which in this case bore date 1st September, 1855, were issued prior to the passage of the act of 28th January, […]

68 U.S. 223 68 U.S. 223 17 L.Ed. 531 1 Wall. 223 BALDWINv.HALE. December Term, 1863 THIS was a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts; the case, as appearing from an agreed statement of facts, being thus: J. W. Baldwin, a citizen of Massachusetts, made, at Boston, in that […]

68 U.S. 16 68 U.S. 16 17 L.Ed. 555 1 Wall. 16 WRIGHTv.ELLISON. December Term, 1863 IN 1827, the American brig Caspian was illegally captured by the naval forces of Brazil, and condemned in the prize courts of that country. There being nothing else to be done in the circumstances, her master, one Goodrich, instituted […]

68 U.S. 166 68 U.S. 166 17 L.Ed. 681 1 Wall. 166 SWEENY ET AL.v.EASTER. December Term, 1863 EASTER & CO. brought trover, in the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, against Sweeny, Rittenhouse, Fant & Co., bankers of Washington City, to recover the value of certain negotiable notes belonging to them, the first […]

68 U.S. 116 68 U.S. 116 17 L.Ed. 571 1 Wall. 116 THE BRIDGE PROPRIETORSv.THE HOBOKEN COMPANY. December Term, 1863 1 THE Judiciary Act (§ 25) provides, that a final decree in the highest court of equity in a State, ‘where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of . . . any […]

68 U.S. 155 68 U.S. 155 17 L.Ed. 662 1 Wall. 155 JONES ET AL.v.MOREHEAD. December Term, 1863 THIS was a bill filed in the Circuit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, to restrain the infringement of a patent for protecting the manufacture of a certain sort of door-locks, called Janus-faced locks, and for […]

68 U.S. 104 68 U.S. 104 17 L.Ed. 569 1 Wall. 104 UNITED STATESv.SEPULVEDA. December Term, 1863 BY acts of Congress, of March 3d, 1851,1 and of August 31st, 1852,2 the District Courts of the United States for California, were authorized, on appeal from the Board of Land Commissioners, which body was empowered to settle […]

68 U.S. 109 68 U.S. 109 17 L.Ed. 551 1 Wall. 109 THE STATE OF MINNESOTAv.BACHELDER. December Term, 1863 THIS was a writ of error to the supreme Court of the State of Minnesota, and was taken under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, which gives a writ of error here in […]