Category: 1867

73 U.S. 495 73 U.S. 495 18 L.Ed. 863 6 Wall. 495 CITY OF WASHINGTONv.DENNISON. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. This was a motion for a supersedeas of an execution against the City of Washington, plaintiffs in error, founded upon a writ of error, bond and citation, […]

73 U.S. 497 73 U.S. 497 18 L.Ed. 887 6 Wall. 497 EX PARTE DE GROOT. December Term, 1867 THIS was an application for a mandamus to the judges of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The petition was presented to that court praying for the award of a mandamus to the defendant, […]

73 U.S. 457 73 U.S. 457 18 L.Ed. 721 6 Wall. 457 ALVISOv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1867 THIS was a motion to reinstate on the docket an appeal from the District Court for the Northern District of California, that had been dismissed at the last term.* The decree was rendered in the United States District […]

73 U.S. 458 73 U.S. 458 18 L.Ed. 869 6 Wall. 458 DOE, LESSEE OF POOR,v.CONSIDINE. December Term, 1867 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. 2 The lessors of the plaintiff in error brought an action of ejectment in that court to recover certain real […]

73 U.S. 481 73 U.S. 481 18 L.Ed. 930 6 Wall. 481 WALKLEYv.CITY OF MUSCATINE. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for Iowa. A bill had been filed in that court to compel the authorities of the city of Muscatine to levy a tax upon the […]

73 U.S. 484 73 U.S. 484 18 L.Ed. 920 6 Wall. 484 UNITED STATESv.ECKFORD. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Court of Claims, the case being thus: An act of Congress1 of the 3d of March, 1797, § 3, provides that where a suit is instituted against any person indebted to the United States, the […]

73 U.S. 423 73 U.S. 423 18 L.Ed. 756 6 Wall. 423 MUMFORDv.WARDWELL. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of California. Mumford—plaintiff both below and in error here—brought ejectment against Wardwell for a ‘one hundred-vara lot,’ No. 186 on the official map of San Francisco. Plea, possession as owner […]

73 U.S. 440 73 U.S. 440 18 L.Ed. 828 6 Wall. 440 SILVERv.LADD. December Term, 1867 THIS cause came before the court on a motion by Mr. Lander, to dismiss writ of error to the Supreme Court of Oregon. The CHIEF JUSTICE delivered the opinion. 1 The record shows a suit in equity to quiet […]

73 U.S. 441 73 U.S. 441 18 L.Ed. 790 6 Wall. 441 THE GRACE GIRDLER. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This was a motion made by Mr. Donohue to dismiss an appeal from the Circuit Court of the Northern District of […]

73 U.S. 443 73 U.S. 443 18 L.Ed. 923 6 Wall. 443 WHITEv.CANNON. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Louisiana. Cannon, holding an imperfect claim to a tract of land in that part of Louisiana which, in times when the sovereignty of the region was disputed between Spain and the United States, […]

73 U.S. 451 73 U.S. 451 18 L.Ed. 862 6 Wall. 451 KAIL ET AL.v.WETMORE.SAMEv.DOUGLASS. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois. On motion of Mr. Goudy, opposed by Mr. Peck, to dismiss the writ. Mr. Justice NELSON stated the facts and delivered the opinion of the court. […]

73 U.S. 452 73 U.S. 452 18 L.Ed. 846 6 Wall. 452 VOSEv.BRONSON. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Wisconsin. In December, 1856, the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company, to secure ten millions of dollars in bonds, to be issued by them, executed a mortgage o Bronson, Soutter, and Knapp, as […]

73 U.S. 385 73 U.S. 385 18 L.Ed. 830 6 Wall. 385 UNITED STATESv.HARTWELL. December Term, 1867 ON certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. The defendant was indicted in that court at Boston, for embezzlement. The indictment contained ten counts. The first three were […]

73 U.S. 402 73 U.S. 402 18 L.Ed. 925 6 Wall. 402 STARKv.STARRS. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Oregon. A. and L. Starr, asserting themselves to be owners in possession of certain parcels of land in the city of Portland, Oregon, and derived by title from that city, filed a bill […]

73 U.S. 420 73 U.S. 420 18 L.Ed. 868 6 Wall. 420 TURTONv.DUFIEF. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. Dufief, acting without compensation and merely as a friend of a certain Mrs. Fowler, then a widow, in July, 1851, lent for her $2000 (money belonging to her) to […]

73 U.S. 363 73 U.S. 363 18 L.Ed. 863 6 Wall. 363 GRISARv.MCDOWELL. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for California; the action there having been to recover possession of a tract of land within the by of San Francisco. The plaintiff claimed as seized in fee under title from the city of […]

73 U.S. 337 73 U.S. 337 18 L.Ed. 802 6 Wall. 337 LORINGSv.MARSH. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. The 25th section of chapter 92, of the Revised Statutes of Massachusetts, A. D. 1860,—a re-enactment, essentially of earlier statutes,—thus enacts: ‘When any testator shall omit to provide in […]

73 U.S. 35 73 U.S. 35 18 L.Ed. 745 6 Wall. 35 CRANDALLv.STATE OF NEVADA. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Nevada. In 1865, the legislature of Nevada enacted that ‘there shall be levied and collected a capitation tax of one dollar upon every person leaving the State by any railroad, stage […]

73 U.S. 355 73 U.S. 355 18 L.Ed. 810 6 Wall. 355 MUSSINAv.CAVAZOS. December Term, 1867 MOTION to dismiss a writ of error to the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas; the case being thus: The twenty-second section of the Judiciary Act provides that ‘Judgments and decrees of the District Courts may be […]

73 U.S. 382 73 U.S. 382 18 L.Ed. 848 6 Wall. 382 THE VICTORY. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri. The twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act provides that a final judgment in the highest court of a State where is drawn in question the validity of a […]