1866 Archives

72 U.S. 183

72 U.S. 183 72 U.S. 183 18 L.Ed. 693 5 Wall. 183 THE JENNY. December Term, 1866 APPEALS from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, decreeing restitution of the schooner Jenny and cargo, and decreeing costs and charges against their claimants; the questions involved being of fact chiefly. […]

72 U.S. 188

72 U.S. 188 72 U.S. 188 18 L.Ed. 676 5 Wall. 188 EX PARTE THE MILWAUKEE RAILROAD COMPANY. December Term, 1866 PETITION for a writ of mandamus. The Circuit Court for the District of Wisconsin having rendered a decree in favor of J. T. Soutter, survivor, &c., against the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company […]

72 U.S. 190

72 U.S. 190 72 U.S. 190 18 L.Ed. 545 5 Wall. 190 BARTONv.FORSYTH. December Term, 1866 IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. Mr. Ballance, for the plaintiff in error; Mr. Gondy, contra. Mr. Justice CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court. 1 Action was ejectment […]

72 U.S. 194

72 U.S. 194 72 U.S. 194 18 L.Ed. 610 5 Wall. 194 CAMPBELLv.CITY OF KENOSHA. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Wisconsin; the case being this: The constitution of Wisconsin ordains: ‘It shall be the duty of the legislature, and they are hereby empowered, to provide for the organization […]

72 U.S. 205

72 U.S. 205 72 U.S. 205 18 L.Ed. 604 5 Wall. 205 MYERSv.FENN. December Term, 1866 MYERS, Kinsly, and Stout, having obtained judgment against Fenn, filed a bill against him and three other persons named respectively, Thompson, Green, and Roberts,—which last-named person had been Fenn’s general assignee, charging a fraudulent transfer of property by him […]

72 U.S. 119

72 U.S. 119 72 U.S. 119 18 L.Ed. 502 5 Wall. 119 STANLEYv.COLT. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, the case being this: From the year 1702 or earlier, and down to the year 1818, and afterwards, with some unimportant alterations, there existed and was in force in […]

72 U.S. 170

72 U.S. 170 72 U.S. 170 18 L.Ed. 622 5 Wall. 170 THE DASHING WAVE. December Term, 1866 DURING the late Rebellion, and while the coast of the Southern States, including that of Texas to the mouth of the Rio Grande, was under blockade by the United States, the Dashing Wave, a British-owned brig, was […]

72 U.S. 178

72 U.S. 178 72 U.S. 178 18 L.Ed. 625 5 Wall. 178 THE SCIENCE. December Term, 1866 The Science had been captured by the American war steamer Virginia, on the same day as the Dashing Wave, and the same decrees were entered in the District Court in respect to vessel and cargo, and similar appeals […]

72 U.S. 179

72 U.S. 179 72 U.S. 179 18 L.Ed. 626 5 Wall. 179 THE VOLANT. December Term, 1866 THE brig Volant had been captured, near the mouth of the Rio Grande, on the 5th of November, 1863, by the United States steamer Granite City, and, with her cargo, was condemned, by the decree of the District […]

72 U.S. 180

72 U.S. 180 72 U.S. 180 18 L.Ed. 627 5 Wall. 180 THE TERESITA. December Term, 1866 APPEAL from the District Court of the United States for the Easterin District of Louisiana. Mr. Ashton, Assistant Attorney-General, for the United States. Mr. Reverdy Johnson, contra, for the claimant. The CHIEF JUSTICE stated the case and delivered […]

72 U.S. 1

72 U.S. 1 72 U.S. 1 18 L.Ed. 480 5 Wall. 1 THE SPRINGBOK. December Term, 1866 1 Page 2 APPEAL from a decree of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, respecting the British bark Springbok and her cargo, which had been captured at sea by the […]

72 U.S. 107

72 U.S. 107 72 U.S. 107 18 L.Ed. 518 5 Wall. 107 HADDENv.THE COLLECTOR. December Term, 1866 On the 14th of July, 1862, Congress passed ‘an act increasing temporarily the duties on imports and for other purposes.’ The 14th section was as follows: ‘And be it further enacted, That from and after the day and […]

72 U.S. 113

72 U.S. 113 72 U.S. 113 18 L.Ed. 544 5 Wall. 113 SHELTONv.THE COLLECTOR. December Term, 1866 THIS case, which was brought up by a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, was submitted to the court below upon an agreed statement of facts, substantially as […]

71 U.S. 680

71 U.S. 680 71 U.S. 680 18 L.Ed. 311 4 Wall. 680 UNITED STATESv.McMASTERS. December Term, 1866 THIS was a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, and involved two questions: one, that of a private boundary to a tract of land, the other a question of the admission […]

71 U.S. 680

71 U.S. 605

71 U.S. 605 71 U.S. 605 18 L.Ed. 447 4 Wall. 605 PEARSONv.DUANE. December Term, 1866 IN the month of June, 1856, the steamship Stevens, a common carrier of passengers, of which Pearson was master, on her regular voyage from Panama to San Francisco, arrived at the intermediate port of Acapulco, where Duane got on […]

71 U.S. 605

71 U.S. 642

71 U.S. 642 71 U.S. 642 18 L.Ed. 309 4 Wall. 642 UNITED STATESv.LE BARON. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Alabama. This was an action of debt brought by the United States against Le Baron, surety of Beers, deputy postmaster at Mobile, on an official bond, dated […]

71 U.S. 650

71 U.S. 650 71 U.S. 650 18 L.Ed. 328 4 Wall. 650 RAILROAD COMPANYv.LINDSAY. December Term, 1866 LINDSAY & Co., ship-brokers, of London, filed their petition in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, in which—alleging a written contract between themselves and the New Orleans, &c., Railroad Company, the company bound itself to […]