Category: 1871

81 U.S. 484 81 U.S. 484 20 L.Ed. 722 14 Wall. 484 DIRSTv.MORRIS. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case being this: Russell being the owner of a large number of lots of land in different counties in Illinois, conveyed one in May, 1837, to Josiah […]

81 U.S. 491 81 U.S. 491 20 L.Ed. 723 14 Wall. 491 COLLINSv.RIGGS. December Term, 1871 IN this case, Riggs had brought ejectment in the court below against Collins to recover a lot, one of the several ones mentioned in the preceding case as having been mortgaged by Russell to the United States, and bought […]

81 U.S. 493 81 U.S. 493 20 L.Ed. 726 14 Wall. 493 UNITED STATESv.POWELL. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Middle District of Tennessee; the case being this: A statute of July 20th, 1868,1 requires that every person intending to engage in the business of a distiller shall give a bond […]

81 U.S. 5 81 U.S. 5 20 L.Ed. 875 14 Wall. 5 COCKROFTv.VOSE. December Term, 1871 MOTION by Mr. E. C. Benedict, to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of New York, taken under the assumption that the case was within the 25th section of the Judiciary Act; a section abundantly known […]

81 U.S. 452 81 U.S. 452 20 L.Ed. 777 14 Wall. 452 NICOLSON PAVEMENT COMPANYv.JENKINS. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of California; the case being thus: On the 8th of August, 1854, Samuel Nicolson obtanied letters-patent for an improvement on wooden pavements. On the 1st of December, 1863, he […]

81 U.S. 457 81 U.S. 457 20 L.Ed. 845 14 Wall. 457 UNITED STATESv.BALLARD ET AL. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Ohio; the case being thus: A statute of August 30th, 1852,1 requiring annual licenses for steamboats, after preliminary inspections, examinations, and certificates, enacts by the 31st […]

81 U.S. 463 81 U.S. 463 20 L.Ed. 849 14 Wall. 463 BLACKv.CURRAN. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Illinois; the case being thus: The statutes of Illinois1 relating to homesteads enact: ‘SECTION 1. . . . There shall be exempt from levy and forced sale, under any process […]

81 U.S. 472 81 U.S. 472 20 L.Ed. 830 14 Wall. 472 DOLTONv.CAIN. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois; the case being this: Certain statutes of limitation in Illinois,1 declare in substance that whoever has resided on a tract of land for a term of seven successive […]

81 U.S. 479 81 U.S. 479 20 L.Ed. 721 14 Wall. 479 CROSSv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being this: Daniel Saffarans, in 1851, according to the forms of law, leased to the United States for a term of ten years, at a certain monthly rent, a warehouse […]

81 U.S. 434 81 U.S. 434 20 L.Ed. 858 14 Wall. 434 MOWRYv.WHITNEY. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; the case being thus: Asa Whitney, of Philadelphia, had obtained, on the 25th April, 1848, a patent for fourteen years for an improvement in annealing and cooling cast-iron […]

81 U.S. 44 81 U.S. 44 20 L.Ed. 815 14 Wall. 44 HENDERSON’S DISTILLED SPIRITS. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Missouri; the case being thus: On the 13th July, 1866, Congress passed an act to provide internal revenue,1 laying and levying taxes on many hundred products of […]

81 U.S. 442 81 U.S. 442 20 L.Ed. 867 14 Wall. 442 IMPROVEMENT COMPANYv.MUNSON. December Term, 1871 IN error to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; in which court, Munson and others brought ejectment agaisnt The Schuylkill and Dauphin Improvement Company and two other like companies, all corporations of Pennsylvania, to recover […]

81 U.S. 402 81 U.S. 402 20 L.Ed. 857 14 Wall. 402 O’DOWDv.RUSSELL. December Term, 1871 ON motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. Walker, Jones, and O’Dowd were sued in the Superior Court of Richmond County, Georgia, upon a bond given by Walker, as principal, […]

81 U.S. 406 81 U.S. 406 20 L.Ed. 774 14 Wall. 406 THE STEAMER WEBB. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York; the case, as assumed by the court on a considerable body of evidence, which it examined and recapitulated, having been essentially thus: In March, 1859, […]

81 U.S. 419 81 U.S. 419 20 L.Ed. 748 14 Wall. 419 SMITHv.MASON, ASSIGNEE. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; the case being this: The Bankrupt Act1 enacts: ‘SECTION 1. That the several District Courts of the United States be courts of bankruptcy, and they shall have original […]

81 U.S. 345 81 U.S. 345 20 L.Ed. 801 14 Wall. 345 THE CONTINENTAL. December Term, 1871 AN act of Congress—that of July 25th, 18661—prescribes that all coasting steamers and those navigating bays, lakes, or other inland waters, shall carry a green light on the starboard side, a red light on the port side, and […]

81 U.S. 361 81 U.S. 361 20 L.Ed. 789 14 Wall. 361 PUGHv.McCORMICK. December Term, 1871 ON the 12th of April, 1863, R. C. Martin, at Assumption, Louisiana, drew his promissory note at one year for $7000, in favor of W. W. Pugh, which note after being indorsed there by Pugh came into the hands […]

81 U.S. 375 81 U.S. 375 20 L.Ed. 894 14 Wall. 375 INSURANCE COMPANIESv.WEIDES. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota; the case being this: C. & J. R. Weide insured in four different companies a stock of goods which they had; all the policies being alike, and each […]

81 U.S. 383 81 U.S. 383 20 L.Ed. 840 14 Wall. 383 BANK OF BETHELv.PAHQUIOQUE BANK. December Term, 1871 IN error to the Supreme Court of Connecticut; the case being thus: On the 3d of June, 1864, Congress passed its well-known ‘act to provide a National currency, secured by a pledge of United States bonds;’1 […]

81 U.S. 336 81 U.S. 336 20 L.Ed. 813 14 Wall. 336 THE LAURA. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: The high-pressure steamer Savory and the steamer Laura, a low-pressure steamer of a rival line, were in the habit, in the year 1866, of […]