Category: 1866

72 U.S. 827 72 U.S. 827 18 L.Ed. 469 5 Wall. 827 HIGUERASv.UNITED STATES.1 December Term, 1866 APPEAL from the District Court for Northern California. Mr. Bradley, for the appellants; Mr. Willes, contra. Mr. Justice CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court of […]

72 U.S. 87 72 U.S. 87 18 L.Ed. 517 5 Wall. 87 WOODWORTHv.INSURANCE COMPANY. December Term, 1866 THIS was a question involving the proper disposition of the surplus proceeds of the sale of the schooner Harriet Ross in the Admiralty Court of the Northern District of Illinois. The schooner had been libelled in that court […]

72 U.S. 90 72 U.S. 90 18 L.Ed. 591 5 Wall. 90 RAILROAD COMPANYv.BARRON. December Term, 1866 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the suit below having been one against a railroad company to recover damages for the death of a passenger killed by its negligence. A statute of […]

72 U.S. 822 72 U.S. 822 18 L.Ed. 564 5 Wall. 822 SEYMOURv.FREER. December Term, 1866 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Northern Illinois. This was a motion to dismiss an appeal because the bond for the prosecution of the appeal was not filed within ten days after the decree. It appeared that the decree […]

72 U.S. 823 72 U.S. 823 18 L.Ed. 491 5 Wall. 823 GARRISONv.CASS COUNTY. December Term, 1866 MOTION to dismiss an appeal from Supreme Court of the Territory of Nebraska. The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The decree in this case was rendered on the 13th June, 1861. No appeal was […]

72 U.S. 824 72 U.S. 824 18 L.Ed. 492 5 Wall. 824 ALVISOv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1866 On motion to dismiss an appeal from the District Court for Northern California, the CHIEF JUSTICE stated the case and gave the opinion of the court. 1 The final decree in the District Court was rendered on the […]

72 U.S. 795 72 U.S. 795 18 L.Ed. 653 5 Wall. 795 DEERYv.CRAY. December Term, 1866 1 THIS was an action of ejectment brought in the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland, by Eliza C. Deery, to recover an undivided third part of a tract of land, called Kent Fort Manor, on Kent Island, […]

72 U.S. 808 72 U.S. 808 18 L.Ed. 472 5 Wall. 808 LEEv.DODGE. December Term, 1866 APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. The appellants were the heirs-at-law of G. W. Lee, and, on the strength of the title which they had inherited from him, and obtained […]

72 U.S. 81 72 U.S. 81 18 L.Ed. 542 5 Wall. 81 PARMELEEv.SIMPSON. December Term, 1866 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Nebraska; the case being thus: Parmelee filed a bill of complaint against Megeath, Bovey, and one Simpson, in the District Court for Douglas County, Nebraska Territory, sitting in chancery, for […]

72 U.S. 819 72 U.S. 819 18 L.Ed. 613 5 Wall. 819 WITHENBURYv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1866 APPEAL from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. Several libels were filed in that court for the condemnation, as prize of war, of large quantities of cotton and other property captured […]

72 U.S. 761 72 U.S. 761 18 L.Ed. 708 5 Wall. 761 THE NEW YORK INDIANS. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the Court of Appeals of New York; the case being thus: In 1786, and before the adoption, therefore, of the Federal Constituktion, the State of Massachusetts, which laid claim to four tracts of land […]

72 U.S. 772 72 U.S. 772 18 L.Ed. 556 5 Wall. 772 SUPERVISORSv.SCHENCK. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case being thus: An Illinois statute, passed in 1849, authorized the ‘county court’ of counties wishing to subscribe to stock in railroads, to make subscriptions and to […]

72 U.S. 785 72 U.S. 785 18 L.Ed. 562 5 Wall. 785 KELLYv.CRAWFORD. December Term, 1866 On error to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case was thus: Crawford & Co., in 1860, were coal dealers in Cleveland, and at the same time Kelly & Maher were coal dealers in Chicago. […]

72 U.S. 791 72 U.S. 791 18 L.Ed. 606 5 Wall. 791 O’NEALv.KIRKPATRICK. December Term, 1866 THIS was an ejectment in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of California, to recover a lot of land situate on the margin of the bay of San Francisco, within five miles of the city, […]

72 U.S. 720 72 U.S. 720 18 L.Ed. 614 5 Wall. 720 CITY OF PHILADELPHIAv.THE COLLECTOR. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the Circuit Court for Eastern Pennsylvania; the case being thus: The Judiciary Act of 1789 limits the jurisdiction of the Federal courts, so far as determined by citizenship, to ‘suits between a citizen of […]

72 U.S. 737 72 U.S. 737 18 L.Ed. 667 5 Wall. 737 THE KANSAS INDIANS. December Term, 1866 1 THESE were three distinct cases involving, however, with certain differences, essentially the same question, argued on the same day and by the same counsel. 2 The specific question was, whether the State of Kansas had a […]

72 U.S. 74 72 U.S. 74 18 L.Ed. 580 5 Wall. 74 WATSONv.SUTHERLAND. December Term, 1866 APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland; the case being this: Watson & Co., appellants in the suit, having issued writs of fieri facias on certain judgments which they had recovered in […]

72 U.S. 663 72 U.S. 663 18 L.Ed. 704 5 Wall. 663 THOMPSONv.RIGGS. December Term, 1866 1 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. 2 Riggs & Co. were bankers in the District of Columbia: Thompson was a business man there, keeping a bank account with them, depositing specie, treasury notes, bank […]

72 U.S. 681 72 U.S. 681 18 L.Ed. 689 5 Wall. 681 WOLCOTTv.DES MOINES COMPANY. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. In August, 1846, Congress granted to the then Territory, and now State, of Iowa—— ‘For the purpose of aiding said Territory to improve the navigation […]

72 U.S. 689 72 U.S. 689 18 L.Ed. 527 5 Wall. 689 NASHv.TOWNE. December Term, 1866 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for Wisconsin; the case being thus: 2 Towne & Washburne, of Boston, Massachusetts, bought of Nash & Chapin, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in February, 1863, a thousand barrels of flour, and paid for them […]