Category: 1867

73 U.S. 216 73 U.S. 216 18 L.Ed. 794 6 Wall. 216 THE HYPODAME. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. Chapin libelled the propeller Hypodame for a collision which had occurred on the Hudson River, on a December night, 1862, a little below Dunderberg, between the […]

73 U.S. 225 73 U.S. 225 18 L.Ed. 823 6 Wall. 225 THE VANDERBILT. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. On the morning of May 16th, 1863, the steam-tug Hubbard was slowly descending the west side of the Hudson River, here one thousand or more feet […]

73 U.S. 166 73 U.S. 166 18 L.Ed. 768 6 Wall. 166 RIGGSv.JOHNSON COUNTY. December Term, 1867 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa. The case somewhat fully stated was thus: Statutes of Iowa enact: 2 That the county commissioners of any county may submit to the people of it at […]

73 U.S. 210 73 U.S. 210 18 L.Ed. 781 6 Wall. 210 WEBERv.LEE COUNTY. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. Messrs. Dick and Grant, for the plaintiff in error; Mr. Thomas Ewing, Sr., contra. Mr. Justice CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court; […]

73 U.S. 18 73 U.S. 18 18 L.Ed. 806 6 Wall. 18 THE AMELIE. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. Fitz, of Boston, was owner of goods to the value of $8300, shipped at Surinam on board the Amelie, a Dutch vessel owned in Amsterdam, and to be […]

73 U.S. 142 73 U.S. 142 18 L.Ed. 733 6 Wall. 142 RECTORv.ASHLEY. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Arkansas; the question in the court below being the validity of a title set up by Ashley’s executors on bill to a piece of land in that State, south of the Arkansas River, […]

73 U.S. 15 73 U.S. 15 18 L.Ed. 818 6 Wall. 15 HAIGHTv.RAILROAD COMPANY. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; the case, as derived from the statement of it by the learned judge below (McCandless, J.), who sat for the Circuit Court, having been thus: 1 The […]

73 U.S. 153 73 U.S. 153 18 L.Ed. 762 6 Wall. 153 RUBBER COMPANYv.GOODYEAR. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island. On motions. Two motions were made in this cause. The first by the appellees, to dismiss the appeal, the other by the appellants to reduce the amount […]

73 U.S. 157 73 U.S. 157 18 L.Ed. 822 6 Wall. 157 SAVERYv.SYPHER. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa. Keene having conveyed to Savery a piece of land, Savery gave him a mortgage on the same to secure the purchase-money. Keene died before receiving payment of this money; […]

73 U.S. 160 73 U.S. 160 18 L.Ed. 849 6 Wall. 160 REICHARTv.FELPS. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Illinois; the case, which was one of ejectment, being thus: In 1784, after the War of the Revol tion, the State of Virginia then claiming the Northwest Territory, a part of which makes […]

73 U.S. 116 73 U.S. 116 18 L.Ed. 730 6 Wall. 116 OSTERMANv.BALDWIN. December Term, 1867 APPEAL (submitted) from the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. In 1839, prior to the admission of Texas into our Union, and that country being then an independent republic, Baldwin, a citizen of New York, and an […]

73 U.S. 124 73 U.S. 124 18 L.Ed. 853 6 Wall. 124 WALKERv.VILLAVASO. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Louisiana. This was a motion by Mr. Janin to dismiss the writ of error. The suit,—a suit instituted by Villavaso against Walker, in the District Court of the parish of St. Bernard, Louisiana,—was […]

73 U.S. 129 73 U.S. 129 18 L.Ed. 888 6 Wall. 129 INSURANCE COMPANYv.WEBSTER. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan; the case having been thus: One Webber, on the 25th of September, 1860, was, and for a long time had been, the agent […]

73 U.S. 134 73 U.S. 134 18 L.Ed. 765 6 Wall. 134 THOMPSONv.RAILROAD COMPANIES. December Term, 1867 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The case was this: The code of civil procedure of Ohio provides that every action must be prosecuted ‘in the name of the real party in interest,’ […]

73 U.S. 139 73 U.S. 139 18 L.Ed. 819 6 Wall. 139 WESTv.AURORA CITY. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for Indiana. The twelfth section of the Judiciary Act provides: ‘That if a suit be commenced in any State court against an alien, or by a citizen of the State in which the […]

73 U.S. 1 73 U.S. 1 18 L.Ed. 836 6 Wall. 1 MAURANv.INSURANCE COMPANY. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the Circuit Court for Massachusetts. Mauran brought suit in that court against the Alliance Insurance Company on a policy of insurance upon the ship Marshall for one year from the 29th November, 1860, covering the sum […]

73 U.S. 101 73 U.S. 101 18 L.Ed. 792 6 Wall. 101 UNITED STATESv.ADAMS.SAMEv.JOHNSON.SAMEv.CLARK. December Term, 1867 THESE were three motions: the first two to dismiss appeals from the Court of Claims, one in the case of Adams, and one in the case of Johnson; the third, in the case of Clark, a motion for […]

73 U.S. 112 73 U.S. 112 18 L.Ed. 764 6 Wall. 112 LEAGUEv.ATCHISON. December Term, 1867 ERROR to the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The statute of limitations of Texas, after making ten years a protection to one two enters without title, and five years a protection when the party has entered […]