Category: 1864

69 U.S. 97 69 U.S. 97 17 L.Ed. 855 2 Wall. 97 DAYv.GALLUP. December Term, 1864 THE 25th section of the Judiciary Act provides that a final judgment in the highest court of law of a State, in which is drawn in question the validity of an ‘authority exercised under the United States,’ and the […]

69 U.S. 87 69 U.S. 87 17 L.Ed. 836 2 Wall. 87 BADGERv.BADGER. December Term, 1864 BADGER died in 1818, leaving a widow and ten children, one of whom only was of age at that time; the others being minors, of different ages. One of them came of age in 1824; another in 1828; a […]

69 U.S. 96 69 U.S. 96 17 L.Ed. 905 2 Wall. 96 BROBSTv.BROBST. December Term, 1864 IN this case, in the court below, some questions had been disposed of finally by the Circuit and District Judges, and others were suspended by their inability to agree and a consequent division of opinion. An appeal was taken […]

69 U.S. 728 69 U.S. 728 17 L.Ed. 768 2 Wall. 728 LOWBERv.BANGS. December Term, 1864 BANGS & SON being owners of the ship Mary Bangs, then at sea, on her passage from New York to Melbourne, chartered her at Boston, on the 4th June, 1858, to Lowber, who was there, for a voyage from […]

69 U.S. 759 69 U.S. 759 17 L.Ed. 924 2 Wall. 759 EX PARTE FLEMING. December Term, 1864 THE La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Company, a railroad company of Wisconsin, had mortgaged its road and other property to secure certain negotiable bonds which it had issued. The bonds not being paid, a bill of foreclosure […]

69 U.S. 609 69 U.S. 609 17 L.Ed. 886 2 Wall. 609 MINNESOTA COMPANYv.ST. PAUL COMPANY. December Term, 1864 1 THE La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Company was chartered by the legislature of Wisconsin to build a road across that State from Milwaukie to La Crosse, and began to build at Milwaukie, proceeding westward. The […]

69 U.S. 649 69 U.S. 649 17 L.Ed. 739 2 Wall. 649 THE FOSSAT OR QUICKSILVER MINE CASE. December Term, 1864 ABOUT fifteen miles south from the southern end of the Bay of San Francisco, and separated from it by irregular mountain slopes, lies a vale, called the Ca nada de los Capitancillos, or Valley […]

69 U.S. 70 69 U.S. 70 17 L.Ed. 732 2 Wall. 70 BROOKSv.MARTIN. December Term, 1864 1 MARTIN filed a bill in equity in the Federal Court of Wisconsin to set aside a contract of sale which he had made to Brooks of his interest in a partnership venture, and for an account and division […]

69 U.S. 591 69 U.S. 591 17 L.Ed. 812 2 Wall. 591 READv.BOWMAN. December Term, 1864 READ & WHITAKER were inventors of four improvements in reaping and mowing machines, the principal one being what was called a ‘tubular finger-bar;’ and in 1856 were in partnership, under the name of Lloyd, Whitaker & Co., with two […]

69 U.S. 605 69 U.S. 605 17 L.Ed. 854 2 Wall. 605 HOGANv.PAGE. December Term, 1864 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Missouri; the case being thus: After the cession, in 1803, by France, of Louisiana, to the United States, Congress passed an act1 establishing a board of commissioners at St. Louis, for the purpose […]

69 U.S. 56 69 U.S. 56 17 L.Ed. 782 2 Wall. 56 GREGGv.FORSYTH. December Term, 1864 FORSYTH had brought ejectment against Gregg in the Circuit Court for Illinois, and obtained judgment for the land sued for. On writ of error taken by Gregg, this court reversed that judgment and remitted the case with directions to […]

69 U.S. 561 69 U.S. 561 17 L.Ed. 921 2 Wall. 561 GORDONv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1864 1 GORDON, administrator of Fisher, presented a petition in the Court of Claims of the United States, for damages done to him by troops of our Government, in the war of 1812 with Great Britain. The Court of […]

69 U.S. 562 69 U.S. 562 17 L.Ed. 881 2 Wall. 562 THE SUTTER CASE. December Term, 1864 1 THIS case, which involved immense interests in California, and questions greatly agitated in a particular portion of that State, was an appeal from the decree of the District Court of the United States for the Northern […]

69 U.S. 57 69 U.S. 57 17 L.Ed. 818 2 Wall. 57 BANKSv.OGDEN. December Term, 1864 THIS was an ejectment brought to December Term, 1859, in the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois, to recover a lot of ground, A A, formed by accretion on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The case […]

69 U.S. 587 69 U.S. 587 17 L.Ed. 865 2 Wall. 587 UNITED STATESv.PACHECO. December Term, 1864 APPEAL from the decree of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, confirming the survey and location of a grant made by the Mexican Government of California to Pacheco and another, March […]

69 U.S. 501 69 U.S. 501 17 L.Ed. 851 2 Wall. 501 LEVY COURTv.CORONER. December Term, 1864 THE coroner of the County of Washington, D. C., brought assumpsit in the Circuit Court of the District against what is called the ‘Levy Court’ of Washington, for his fees; fees for ‘viewing the body,’ and fees which […]

69 U.S. 510 69 U.S. 510 17 L.Ed. 900 2 Wall. 510 MILWAUKIE AND MINNESOTA RAILROAD COMPANY ANDFILEMING, APPELLANTS,v.SOUTTER, SURVIVOR. December Term, 1864 BRONSON and Soutter had filed a bill in the Circuit Court for Wisconsin, against the La Crosse and Milwaukie Railroad Company, to foreclose a mortgage given by the said company to them […]

69 U.S. 525 69 U.S. 525 17 L.Ed. 765 2 Wall. 525 UNITED STATESv.STONE. December Term, 1864 THE United States, by treaty with the Delaware Indians, in 1818, agreed to provide for them a country to reside in; and in 1829, by supplementary treaty, agreed that the country in the fork of the Kansas and […]

69 U.S. 538 69 U.S. 538 17 L.Ed. 833 2 Wall. 538 THE ANN CAROLINE. December Term, 1864 THIS was an appeal in admiralty from the decree of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, in a case of collision at sea,—the case being thus: The owner of the schooner J. C. […]

69 U.S. 550 69 U.S. 550 17 L.Ed. 862 2 Wall. 550 THE MORNING LIGHT. December Term, 1864 APPEAL from the decree in admiralty of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. About the 6th of August, 1855, the brigs Jerry Fowler and Morning Light, in a dark […]