Category: 1867

73 U.S. 94 73 U.S. 94 18 L.Ed. 752 6 Wall. 94 WICKERv.HOPPOCK. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for Northern Illinois. Caldwell being owner of a distillery, subject to a mortgage to Hoppock, leased it to Chapin & Co. for three years; it being agreed by the lease itself that the rent, […]

73 U.S. 788 73 U.S. 788 18 L.Ed. 740 6 Wall. 788 STRONGv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the District Court for the Northern District of Florida. Messrs. N. Wilson and E. M. Stanton, for the plaintiff in error; Mr. Stanbery, Attorney-General, and Mr. Ashton, special counsel for the United States, contra. Mr. Justice […]

73 U.S. 83 73 U.S. 83 18 L.Ed. 727 6 Wall. 83 WILSONv.WALL. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Alabama. By the fourteenth article of a treaty made in 1830, between the Choctaw Indians and the United States, by which the Choctaws ceded their territories to the United States, it was thus […]

73 U.S. 91 73 U.S. 91 18 L.Ed. 763 6 Wall. 91 THE WATCHFUL. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. In that court the schooner Watchful and cargo had been libelled as prize of war, and a decree rendered dismissing the libel, and restoring the property to […]

73 U.S. 773 73 U.S. 773 18 L.Ed. 813 6 Wall. 773 CAVAZOSv.TREVINO. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas; the case being thus: In 1776, Salvador de la Garza ‘denounced,’ that is to say, made application to the authorities of New Spain for a tract of land […]

73 U.S. 78 73 U.S. 78 18 L.Ed. 750 6 Wall. 78 LUKINSv.AIRD. December Term, 1867 APPEAL (submitted) from the District Court of the United States for Western Arkansas. Aird being indebted, and having subsequently failed, either sold, or conveyed under a pretence of a sale, certain town lots, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, which he […]

73 U.S. 80 73 U.S. 80 18 L.Ed. 725 6 Wall. 80 WOODv.STEELE. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota. Mr. Justice SWAYNE delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The action was brought by the plaintiff in error upon a promissory note, made by Steele and Newson, bearing […]

73 U.S. 766 73 U.S. 766 18 L.Ed. 882 6 Wall. 766 ARMSTRONG’S FOUNDRY. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, the proceeding below being one for condemnation of property as used in aid of the rebellion, and resembling in its general features the case just disposed of. […]

73 U.S. 770 73 U.S. 770 18 L.Ed. 914 6 Wall. 770 UNITED STATESv.HART. December Term, 1867. APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico, the case being thus:An act of Congress of March 3d, 1863,* entitled ‘An act to facilitate the collection of revenue in El Paso County, Texa, ‘ &c., […]

73 U.S. 748 73 U.S. 748 18 L.Ed. 859 6 Wall. 748 RAILROAD COMPANIESv.CHAMBERLAIN. December Term, 1867 THESE were two appeals from the Circuit Court for the District or Wisconsin; one by the Milwaukee and Minnesota Railroad Company against Chamberlain, the other by the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company against both the parties to […]

73 U.S. 750 73 U.S. 750 18 L.Ed. 854 6 Wall. 750 RAILROAD COMPANYv.JAMES. December Term, 1867 THESE were three appeals from the Circuit Court for Wisconsin. The case was this: On the 7th October, 1857, Cleveland recovered judgment for $111,727 against the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company. The legislature of Wisconsin, incorporating the […]

73 U.S. 752 73 U.S. 752 18 L.Ed. 885 6 Wall. 752 JAMES ET AL.v.RAILROAD COMPANY. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wisconsin; James, Brewer, Greenleaf, Justice, and others, being the appellants, and the Milwaukee and Minnesota Railroads appellee. Messrs. Cary and Carlisle, for the appellants; Messrs. Cushing and Stark, contra. Mr. […]

73 U.S. 756 73 U.S. 756 18 L.Ed. 973 6 Wall. 756 SMITHv.COCKRILL. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Kansas. The suit was an action of ejectment by Cockrill against Smith, to recover the possession of several lots of land in the city of Leavenworth. The plaintiff claimed title […]

73 U.S. 759 73 U.S. 759 18 L.Ed. 879 6 Wall. 759 UNION INSURANCE COMPANYv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1867 THIS was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; the case being thus: An act of Congress, of August 6th, 1861, passed during the late rebellion, and […]

73 U.S. 642 73 U.S. 642 18 L.Ed. 950 6 Wall. 642 GAINESv.NEW ORLEANS. December Term, 1867 1 THIS case came here upon appeal from the Circuit Court of the District of Louisiana. 2 It was a bill in equity, filed by Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, December 22d, 1856, against certain defendants, in which she […]

73 U.S. 723 73 U.S. 723 18 L.Ed. 967 6 Wall. 723 WILLIAMSONv.SUYDAM. December Term, 1867 ERROR in ejectment to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. The case was thus: Mary Clarke, who died in 1802, devised certain land, now town lots in New York City, to the Right Rev. Benjamin […]

73 U.S. 739 73 U.S. 739 18 L.Ed. 845 6 Wall. 739 CRAWSHAY ET AL.v.SOUTTER AND KNAPP. December Term, 1867. THESE were two appeals from the Circuit Court for Wisconsin, one by Crawshay and Oddie and one by Vose, to review an order confirming the sale of a railroad under a mortgage. The case was […]

73 U.S. 742 73 U.S. 742 18 L.Ed. 856 6 Wall. 742 MINNESOTA COMPANYv.ST. PAUL COMPANY. December Term, 1867 Two appeals from the Circuit Court for Wisconsin; the parties being in the first case the Milwaukee and Minnesota Railroad Company appellant, against the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company; and in the second, Soutter and […]

73 U.S. 747 73 U.S. 747 18 L.Ed. 847 6 Wall. 747 FLEMINGv.SOUTTER. December Term, 1867 APPEALS in three decretal orders from the Circuit Court for Wisconsin. Messrs. Cushing and Stark, for the appellants; Messrs. Cary and Carlisle, contra. Mr. Justice NELSON stated the facts and delivered the opinion of the court. 1 These are […]

73 U.S. 611 73 U.S. 611 18 L.Ed. 907 6 Wall. 611 PROVIDENT INSTITUTIONv.MASSACHUSETTS. December Term, 1867 1 THIS case, which came here on writ of error to the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, ino lved as a general matter the same question as the case just preceding; to wit, the taxation by State legislatures of […]