Category: 1871

81 U.S. 87 81 U.S. 87 20 L.Ed. 832 14 Wall. 87 TRADERS’ BANKv.CAMPBELL. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois. The bankrupt act of the United States enacts by its 35th section that if any person being insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency, within four months before […]

81 U.S. 9 81 U.S. 9 20 L.Ed. 514 14 Wall. 9 BANK OF WEST TENNESSEEv.CITIZENS’ BANK OF LOUISIANA. December Term, 1871 MOTION by Mr. Edward Janin (Mr. T. J. Durant opposing) to dismiss, for want of jurisdiction, a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, taken under an assumption […]

81 U.S. 98 81 U.S. 98 20 L.Ed. 804 14 Wall. 98 THE THAMES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York; the case being this: In January, 1868, Alfred Bennett, James Van Pelt, and Gilbert Van Pelt, were merchants doing a commission business in New York under […]

81 U.S. 661 81 U.S. 661 20 L.Ed. 757 14 Wall. 661 DELMASv.INSURANCE COMPANY. December Term, 1871 662 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Louisiana; the case being this: J. Menard, of New Orleans, gave to one Delmas an obligation, the consideration of which (as was said) was Confederate money. On this obligation Delmas obtained […]

81 U.S. 670 81 U.S. 670 20 L.Ed. 760 14 Wall. 670 PROPELLER COMPANYv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being this: The New Bedford and New York Propeller Company, by a charter-party dated the 5th of April, 1864, chartered a steamer to the United States at $150 per […]

81 U.S. 676 81 U.S. 676 20 L.Ed. 719 14 Wall. 676 WILLARDv.PRESBURY. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; the case being this: An act of Congress, passed February 23d, 1865, provides: ‘That the corporation of the city of Washington shall have full power and […]

81 U.S. 69 81 U.S. 69 20 L.Ed. 762 14 Wall. 69 CHRISTMASv.RUSSELL. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Mississippi; the case being thus: Richard Christmas, of Kentucky, on 30th November, 1859, sold to one Lyons, of Mississippi, an estate there, and received in consideration therefor his promissory […]

81 U.S. 85 81 U.S. 85 20 L.Ed. 786 14 Wall. 85 HURLEYv.STREET. December Term, 1871 MOTION, by Mr. G. G. Wright, to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Iowa. Hurley sued Street to recover a lot of ground at Council Bluff. The defendant set up that the plaintiff had no […]

81 U.S. 653 81 U.S. 653 20 L.Ed. 896 14 Wall. 653 THE KEY CITY. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; the case being thus: Young shipped a quantity of wheat on the steamboat Key City, a vessel owned by a corporation called the Northwestern Packet Company, […]

81 U.S. 579 81 U.S. 579 20 L.Ed. 779 14 Wall. 579 THE DELAWARE. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of California; the case being thus: The Oregon Iron Company, on the 8th of May, 1868, shipped on board the bark Delaware, then at Portland, Oregon, 76 tons of pig-iron, […]

81 U.S. 607 81 U.S. 607 20 L.Ed. 756 14 Wall. 607 LEARYv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims. On the 19th of November, 1862, one Leary, owner of the steamer Mattano, chartered her to the United States, for the purpose of plying in the harbor of Port Royal, South Carolina, […]

81 U.S. 613 81 U.S. 613 20 L.Ed. 745 14 Wall. 613 ERSKINE, COLLECTOR,v.HOHNBACH. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; the case being thus: The 19th section of the act of July 13th, 1886,1 enacts: ‘That no suit shall be maintained in any court for the recovery […]

81 U.S. 535 81 U.S. 535 20 L.Ed. 753 14 Wall. 535 UNITED STATESv.JUSTICE. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case, as found by it, being thus: On the 12th of August, 1861, Philip S. Justice, by a letter to Lieutenant Treadwell, first lieutenant of ordnance, proposed to supply the Ordnance […]

81 U.S. 553 81 U.S. 553 20 L.Ed. 724 14 Wall. 553 TURNERv.SMITH. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Virginia; the case being this: Hannon being owner in fee simple and free from lien of a house and lot in Alexandria, granted out of it by an old-fashioned formal ground-rent deed, with […]

81 U.S. 564 81 U.S. 564 20 L.Ed. 740 14 Wall. 564 GREGGv.MOSS. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case, as assumed by the court from a bill of exceptions covering thirty 8vo. pages, in long primer type, without any assignment of errors, having been thus: […]

81 U.S. 570 81 U.S. 570 20 L.Ed. 743 14 Wall. 570 PHILPOTv.GRUNINGER. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case being this: On the 19th of October, 1864, Gruninger, by articles of agreement, sold, or agreed to sell, to B. Philpot and H. Picket, residing at […]

81 U.S. 504 81 U.S. 504 20 L.Ed. 729 14 Wall. 504 PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANYv.HAMILTON. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio; the case being thus: Hamilton and Cook were partners in the grain commission business, at Toledo, Ohio, and kept their consignments of grain in store in […]

81 U.S. 511 81 U.S. 511 20 L.Ed. 731 14 Wall. 511 GORHAM COMPANYv.WHITE. December Term, 1871 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York; the case being thus: 2 The Patent Act of August 29th, 1842,1 enacts: 3 ‘That any citizen or citizens, &c., who by his, her, or […]

81 U.S. 531 81 U.S. 531 20 L.Ed. 738 14 Wall. 531 MORGANv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: Morgan let, on the 1st of March, 1865, a vessel to the United States by a charter-party, by whose terms the owners were to keep the vessel tight, […]

81 U.S. 550 81 U.S. 550 20 L.Ed. 739 14 Wall. 550 UNITED STATESv.HUNT. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: The third section of the act of March 3d, 1865,* enacts: ‘That from and after the first day of March, 1865, and during the continuance of the present […]