Category: 1869

77 U.S. 91 77 U.S. 91 19 L.Ed. 850 10 Wall. 91 THE SCHOOLSv.RISLEY. December Term, 1869 1 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri, the case being this: 2 The city of St. Louis, as is known, is situated on the west side of the Mississippi River and faces the stream. […]

77 U.S. 604 77 U.S. 604 19 L.Ed. 1008 10 Wall. 604 MERCHANTS’ BANKv.STATE BANK. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts, in a suit by the Merchants’ National Bank against the State National Bank, upon three checks of Mellen, Ward & Co., on the latter bank, marked ‘good’ […]

77 U.S. 676 77 U.S. 676 19 L.Ed. 1040 10 Wall. 676 MARSHv.FULTON COUNTY. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The case was thus: In 1849 the legislature of the State of Illinois passed an act, which provided that whenever the citizens of any city or county […]

77 U.S. 68 77 U.S. 68 19 L.Ed. 839 10 Wall. 68 TEXASv.HARDENBERG. December Term, 1869 1 THIS case, which, in its principal aspect, has been already reported,1 was now here upon an additional part of it, and under an order made when the main decree was given for further hearing on that additional part, […]

77 U.S. 593 77 U.S. 593 19 L.Ed. 1033 10 Wall. 593 WARDv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1870 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: The Continental Congress, on the 3d day of October, 1776, being in want of five millions of dollars to prosecute the war, resolved to borrow it on what […]

77 U.S. 62 77 U.S. 62 19 L.Ed. 864 10 Wall. 62 MAHONEYv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1869 APPEAL from the Court of Claims, the case being this: An act of Congress, ‘fixing the compensation of public ministers and of consuls residing on the coast of Barbary, and for other purposes,’ passed on the 1st of […]

77 U.S. 577 77 U.S. 577 19 L.Ed. 983 10 Wall. 577 THE COTTON PLANT. December Term, 1870 APPEAL from the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, condemning as prize the steamer Cotton Plant, and her cargo; the case was thus: An act of Congress of July 2, 1864, passed during the late […]

77 U.S. 58 77 U.S. 58 19 L.Ed. 859 10 Wall. 58 BOYLANv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1869 ERROR to the Circuit Court of New York, the case being this: By the 95th section of the act of June 30th, 1864, a tax of five per cent. was imposed on ready-made clothing, and sundry other articles […]

77 U.S. 582 77 U.S. 582 19 L.Ed. 1043 10 Wall. 582 MILLERv.McKENZIE. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi. Pitzer Miller brought suit in the court just named against Larkin McKenzie, James Hamer, Joseph Hamer, and Ezekiel Wall, to recover the value of several bales of cotton. […]

77 U.S. 583 77 U.S. 583 19 L.Ed. 1036 10 Wall. 583 STOVALLv.BANKS. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. This was an action of covenant upon an administration bond, brought by the ordinary of Morgan County, Georgia, for the use of persons claiming to be distributees of […]

77 U.S. 589 77 U.S. 589 19 L.Ed. 1038 10 Wall. 589 STAGGv.INSURANCE COMPANY. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; the case being this: Stagg became the agent of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, in October, 1849, by his acceptance of a circular which contained this language: […]

77 U.S. 543 77 U.S. 543 19 L.Ed. 1043 10 Wall. 543 BALTIMOREv.BALTIMORE RAILROAD. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland; the case being this: In 1854, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company being then unfinished, and needing money to complete its road, the city of Baltimore, which was […]

77 U.S. 553 77 U.S. 553 19 L.Ed. 998 10 Wall. 553 PENNSYLVANIAv.QUICKSILVER COMPANY. December Term, 1870 ON motion to dismiss an original writ: The first clause of the second section of the third article of the Constitution ordains that the judicial power shall extend to certain cases named, and among them ‘to controversies between […]

77 U.S. 557 77 U.S. 557 19 L.Ed. 999 10 Wall. 557 THE DANIEL BALL. December Term, 1870 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Western District of Michigan, the case being thus: The act of July 7th, 1838,1 provides, in its second section, that it shall not be lawful for the owner, master, or […]

77 U.S. 56 77 U.S. 56 19 L.Ed. 858 10 Wall. 56 REILLYv.GOLDING. December Term, 1869 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana. Golding, a citizen of Louisiana, brought suit against Milne & Co., of Mississippi, to recover a certain sum due for machinery furnished to last-named parties. The suit was commenced […]

77 U.S. 566 77 U.S. 566 19 L.Ed. 1029 10 Wall. 566 LIVERPOOL INSURANCE COMPANYv.MASSACHUSETTS. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; the case being this: A statute of the State just named imposes upon ‘each fire, marine, and fire and marine insurance company, incorporated or associated under the laws of […]

77 U.S. 541 77 U.S. 541 19 L.Ed. 981 10 Wall. 541 EX PARTE GRAHAM. December Term, 1870 ON petition for a writ of prohibition to the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. Mr. Durant, for the petitioner; Mr. Cushing, contra. Mr. Justice SWAYNE stated the case and delivered the […]

77 U.S. 516 77 U.S. 516 19 L.Ed. 981 10 Wall. 516 CODDINGTONv.RICHARDSON. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois; the case being thus: By section 4 of the act of March 3d, 1865,1 it is provided that parties may submit the issues of fact in civil cases […]

77 U.S. 497 77 U.S. 497 19 L.Ed. 984 10 Wall. 497 YATESv.MILWAUKEE. December Term, 1870 APPEAL from the Circuit Court, District of Wisconsin. The case was this: In the year 1856, Shepardson, who was the owner of a lot in Milwaukee fronting on the Menomonee and Milwaukee Rivers in the said city, and who […]

77 U.S. 519 77 U.S. 519 19 L.Ed. 1002 10 Wall. 519 BROBSTv.BROCK. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the suit below being an ejectment for an undivided fourth of a tract of land, and the case being this: The tract for a fourth of which the […]