1866 Archives

71 U.S. 196

71 U.S. 196 71 U.S. 196 18 L.Ed. 322 4 Wall. 196 CHRISTYv.PRIDGEON. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas; the case being essentially thus: By the Mexican colonization law of August 18th, 1824, and the legislation of Coahuila and Texas authorized by it, […]

71 U.S. 186

71 U.S. 186 71 U.S. 186 18 L.Ed. 321 4 Wall. 186 UNITED STATESv.ALLSBURY. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas. Allsbury had become bound as surety in the official bond of Dashiel, paymaster. Suit having been brought on this bond against Dashiel, and […]

71 U.S. 187

71 U.S. 187 71 U.S. 187 18 L.Ed. 388 4 Wall. 187 LEFTWITCHv.LECANU. December Term, 1866 A STATUTE of Louisiana* enacts ‘that notaries shall keep a book, in which they shall transcribe all the protests by them made, with mention made of the notices which they shall have given to drawers and indorsers, &c.; which […]

71 U.S. 186

71 U.S. 187

71 U.S. 189

71 U.S. 189 71 U.S. 189 18 L.Ed. 416 4 Wall. 189 MAYORv.SHEFFIELD. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. The action below was brought by W. P. Sheffield, against the Mayor, &c., of New York, to recover damages for injuries received by him from stumbling over […]

71 U.S. 189

71 U.S. 172

71 U.S. 172 71 U.S. 172 18 L.Ed. 334 4 Wall. 172 LOCKEv.NEW ORLEANS. December Term, 1866 THE legislature of Louisiana enacted, A. D. 1850—— ‘That each of the municipalities of said city shall be and is hereby empowered to levy a tax on capital on the assessment roll for the year 1848, and a […]

71 U.S. 174

71 U.S. 174 71 U.S. 174 18 L.Ed. 387 4 Wall. 174 STURDYv.JACKAWAY. December Term, 1866 STURDY brought ejectment against Jackaway in one of the State courts of Arkansas to recover a tract of land in that State, the action being brought not in the English fictitious form used still in some States of the […]

71 U.S. 172

71 U.S. 177

71 U.S. 177 71 U.S. 177 18 L.Ed. 381 4 Wall. 177 RAILROAD COMPANYv.ROCK. December Term, 1866 THIS was a motion by Mr. Templin to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Iowa, issued under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act, which gives authority to the Supreme Court of the United […]

71 U.S. 174

71 U.S. 182

71 U.S. 182 71 U.S. 182 18 L.Ed. 319 4 Wall. 182 UNITED STATESv.DASHIEL. December Term, 1866 ERROR to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Texas. The suit was brought on the official bond of Dashiel, a paymaster in the army of the United States, and Paschall, one of […]

71 U.S. 177

71 U.S. 182

71 U.S. 165

71 U.S. 165 71 U.S. 165 18 L.Ed. 384 4 Wall. 165 BROWNv.WILEY. December Term, 1866 A PETITION was filed in the Orphans’ Court of the District of Columbia, by John Wiley and Emily his wife, setting forth that the said Emily was the child of Tillotson Brown, deceased, and his sole heir and distributee; […]

71 U.S. 165

71 U.S. 1

71 U.S. 1 71 U.S. 1 18 L.Ed. 451 4 Wall. 1 STEARNSv.THE UNITED STATES. December Term, 1866 1 THE fourteenth rule of this court declares that no certiorari for diminution of the record shall be awarded unless the motion be made at the first term of the entry of the cause, and ‘unless upon […]

71 U.S. 143

71 U.S. 143 71 U.S. 143 18 L.Ed. 314 4 Wall. 143 McGEEv.MATHIS. December Term, 1866 1 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Arkansas, the case, as stated by the Chief Justice in delivering the opinion of the court, being thus: 2 In 1850, the United States granted, by act of Congress, to the State […]