Category: 1869

77 U.S. 537 77 U.S. 537 19 L.Ed. 1007 10 Wall. 537 BETHELLv.DEMARET. December Term, 1870 ON motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Louisiana. The case was this: Bethel brought suit against Demaret and others in a district court of the State, to enforce a mortgage given to secure […]

77 U.S. 482 77 U.S. 482 19 L.Ed. 991 10 Wall. 482 HANNAUERv.WOODRUFF. December Term, 1870 ON a certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The case was thus: Woodruff made and delivered to Hannauer, at Memphis, Tennessee, on the 22d of December, 1861, […]

77 U.S. 483 77 U.S. 483 19 L.Ed. 992 10 Wall. 483 IN RE PASCHAL. December Term, 1870 THESE were two motions on George W. Paschal, an attorney and counsellor of this court, and as such lately representing the State of Texas in suits which it had here. The first motion being in the case […]

77 U.S. 507 77 U.S. 507 19 L.Ed. 1028 10 Wall. 507 MESSENGERv.MASON. December Term, 1870 MOTION to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Iowa. The case was thus: Mason sued Messenger in one of the county courts of Iowa, to recover the possession of certain land in […]

77 U.S. 511 77 U.S. 511 19 L.Ed. 997 10 Wall. 511 RAILROAD COMPANYv.McCLURE. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Iowa; the case in its principal features being thus: The District Court of Washington County, Iowa, on a bill by the county to restrain the collection of taxes for the payment of […]

77 U.S. 436 77 U.S. 436 19 L.Ed. 964 10 Wall. 436 KIMBALLv.THE COLLECTOR. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for Massachusetts; the case being this:The fifth section of an act of March 3, 1857,1 ‘reducing the duties on importations and for other purposes,’ imposes an ad valorem duty of 24 per cent. […]

77 U.S. 454 77 U.S. 454 19 L.Ed. 969 10 Wall. 454 THE CLINTON BRIDGE. December Term, 1870 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa. Gray filed a bill in equity in the court below against the Chicago, Iowa, and Nebraska Railroad Company, to enjoin them from building a railroad bridge across […]

77 U.S. 464 77 U.S. 464 19 L.Ed. 976 10 Wall. 464 CORBETTv.NUTT. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia; the case being thus: The seventh section of the act of June 7th, 1862, for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts, after directing the advertisement and sale of […]

77 U.S. 423 77 U.S. 423 19 L.Ed. 954 10 Wall. 423 UNITED STATESv.VIGIL. December Term, 1870 THIS was a motion to dismiss an appeal taken on the part of the United States from the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. The suit was brought by Vigil and others to recover a parcel […]

77 U.S. 427 77 U.S. 427 19 L.Ed. 974 10 Wall. 427 TAPPANv.BEARDSLEY. December Term, 1870 1 IN error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York; the case being this: 2 John Beardsley and Horace Beardsley, merchants of Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio, brought an action in the court below against Lewis […]

77 U.S. 421 77 U.S. 421 19 L.Ed. 973 10 Wall. 421 CAMPBELLv.WILCOX. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Ohio. A statute of July 13th, 1866,1 enacts, that any person who shall accept, negotiate, or pay, or cause to be accepted, negotiated, or paid, any promissory note, without […]

77 U.S. 395 77 U.S. 395 19 L.Ed. 937 10 Wall. 395 UNITED STATESv.HODSON. December Term, 1870 In error to the Circuit Court of the District of Wisconsin, the case being thus: The Internal Revenue Act of June 30, 1864,1 makes it obligatory on persons meaning to be distillers to take out a license, and […]

77 U.S. 416 77 U.S. 416 19 L.Ed. 953 10 Wall. 416 MASTERSONv.HERNDON. December Term, 1870 1 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Western District of Texas; the case being thus: 2 Howard and others filed in the court below a bill of peace and for conveyance of pretended title to a tract of […]

77 U.S. 419 77 U.S. 419 19 L.Ed. 963 10 Wall. 419 THE MABEY. December Term, 1870 ON motion. Atkins had libelled the steam tug Mabey in the District Court at New York, for injury done by the Mabey to a vessel of his, then in New York harbor. The District Court decreed in his […]

77 U.S. 38 77 U.S. 38 19 L.Ed. 844 10 Wall. 38 PEOPLE’S RAILROADv.MEMPHIS RAILROAD. December Term, 1869 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Tennessee, the case being thus: The city of Memphis being by its charter empowered ‘to regulate the laying of railroad iron and the passage of railroad cars through the city,’ and […]

77 U.S. 383 77 U.S. 383 19 L.Ed. 987 10 Wall. 383 BARNARDv.KELLOGG. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, the case being this: In the summer of 1864, Barnard, a commission merchant residing in Boston, Massachusetts, placed a lot of foreign wool, received from a shipper in Buenos […]

77 U.S. 410 77 U.S. 410 19 L.Ed. 972 10 Wall. 410 DUCATv.CHICAGO. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois; the case being thus: Statutes passed by the legislature of Illinois in 1853 and 1857, ‘to regulate the agencies of insurance companies not incorporated by the State of Illinois,’ […]

77 U.S. 334 77 U.S. 334 19 L.Ed. 946 10 Wall. 334 THE FARRAGUT. December Term, 1870 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois. Clark libelled the steamer Farragut for causing the destruction of the canal-boat Ajax and her cargo on the 8th of March, 1866. The Buckeye Mutual Insurance Company […]

77 U.S. 339 77 U.S. 339 19 L.Ed. 955 10 Wall. 339 MARBLE COMPANYv.RIPLEY. December Term, 1870 [Syllabus from pages 339-341 intentionally omitted] THESE were appeals from the Circuit Court for the District of Vermont, in two decrees, one of them on a bill filed by the Rutland Marble Company against a certain Ripley and […]

77 U.S. 367 77 U.S. 367 19 L.Ed. 948 10 Wall. 367 RAILROAD COMPANYv.TRIMBLE. December Term, 1870 ERROR to the Circuit Court for Maryland, the case being thus:The Patent Act of 18361 thus enacts: ‘Section 11. That every patent shall be assignable in law, either as to the whole interest or any undivided part thereof, […]