Category: 1871

81 U.S. 15 81 U.S. 15 20 L.Ed. 846 14 Wall. 15 STEINGSv.FRANKLIN COUNTY. December Term, 1871 MOTION by Mr. F. A. Dick (Messrs. Crews and Letcher opposing) to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Missouri; taken on an assumption that the case came within the 25th section of the Judiciary […]

81 U.S. 113 81 U.S. 113 20 L.Ed. 785 14 Wall. 113 FOULKEv.ZIMMERMAN. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana. These were two suits in the court below, in the nature of actions of ejectment to recover certain lots in New Orleans, and also rents and profits. That court […]

81 U.S. 116 81 U.S. 116 20 L.Ed. 787 14 Wall. 116 THE BRIDGEPORT. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of New York. On a September night of 1865, the ship Margaret Evans, having a night watchman on board, but no light on deck, lay at a wharf at […]

81 U.S. 12 81 U.S. 12 20 L.Ed. 827 14 Wall. 12 SEVIERv.HASKELL. December Term, 1871 MOTION by Mr. S. W. Williams to dismiss, for want of jurisdiction, a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Arkansas, taken under an assumption that the case fell within the 25th section of the Judiciary Act, quoted […]

81 U.S. 109 81 U.S. 109 20 L.Ed. 764 14 Wall. 109 MAHANv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 THIS was a motion in a suit which had come here on appeal from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: Some years ago, by act of Congress, appeals were allowed from the Court of Claims to […]

81 U.S. 1 81 U.S. 1 20 L.Ed. 821 14 Wall. 1 UNITED STATESv.CRUSELL. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: The ‘Abandoned and Captured Property Act’* authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint special agents to receive and collect all abandoned or captured property in any State […]

81 U.S. 10 81 U.S. 10 20 L.Ed. 826 14 Wall. 10 PALMERv.MARSTON. December Term, 1871 MOTION by Mr. W. S. Holman (Mr. E. T. Merrick opposing) to dismiss a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana, taken on the assumption that the case fell within the 25th section of […]

80 U.S. 679 80 U.S. 679 20 L.Ed. 666 13 Wall. 679 WATSONv.JONES. December Term, 1871 1 APPEAL from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Kentucky, made May 11th, 1869. 2 This was a litigation which grew out of certain disturbances in what is known as the ‘Third or Walnut Street […]

80 U.S. 72 80 U.S. 72 20 L.Ed. 485 13 Wall. 72 JOHNSONv.TOWSLEY. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Nebraska; the case being this: By an act of Congress, approved September 4th, 1841,1 and entitled ‘An act to appropriate the proceeds of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights,’ it was […]

80 U.S. 92 80 U.S. 92 20 L.Ed. 534 13 Wall. 92 GIBSONv.CHOUTEAU. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri. Gibson brought ejectment in the St. Louis Land Court against Chouteau, to recover sixty-four acres of land in the county of St. Louis, Missouri. By consent of parties the […]

80 U.S. 68 80 U.S. 68 20 L.Ed. 513 13 Wall. 68 CURTISv.WHITNEY. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin; the case being thus: Mary Curtis brought suit under a statute of Wisconsin to have her title to a certain piece of land, which she claimed under a deed made on a […]

80 U.S. 738 80 U.S. 738 20 L.Ed. 473 13 Wall. 738 THE MABEY. December Term, 1871 ON motion. The owners of the Chapman had libelled in the District Court at New York, the steamtug Mabey and the sailing vessel Cooper, which the tug had been towing out to sea, for injuries caused to the […]

80 U.S. 91 80 U.S. 91 20 L.Ed. 489 13 Wall. 91 SAMSONv.SMILEY. December Term, 1871 1 IN this case the controversy had been between one Samson and a certain Smiley, and the register and receiver had decided in favor of Smiley. Samson accordingly brought the case here. The case differed, as this court considered, […]

80 U.S. 646 80 U.S. 646 20 L.Ed. 685 13 Wall. 646 WHITEv.HART. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. Mr. P. Phillips and Mr. Edwin N. Broyles argued the case fully and ably for the plaintiff in error. No counsel appeared on the other side; the reliance of […]

80 U.S. 654 80 U.S. 654 20 L.Ed. 689 13 Wall. 654 OSBORNv.NICHOLSON ET AL. December Term, 1871 In error to the Circuit Court for the District of Arkansas. Mr. P. Phillips and Mr. A. H. Garland, for the plaintiff in error; Messrs. Watkins and Rose, contra. The case was argued on both sides interestingly, […]

80 U.S. 66 80 U.S. 66 20 L.Ed. 484 13 Wall. 66 RICEv.HOUSTON, ADMINISTRATOR. December Term, 1871 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Middle District of Tennessee; the case being thus: A. W. Vanleer, a citizen of Tennessee, having died at Nashville, letters of administration were granted by the proper authority there to one […]

80 U.S. 664 80 U.S. 664 20 L.Ed. 632 13 Wall. 664 EX PARTE RUSSELL. December Term, 1871 MOTION, by Mr. William Penn Clarke, for a writ of mandamus; the case being thus: The second section of an act of June 25th, 1868, relating to the Court of Claims, thus enacts: ‘That the said Court […]

80 U.S. 672 80 U.S. 672 20 L.Ed. 607 13 Wall. 672 INSURANCE COMPANYv.THWING. December Term, 1871 IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was an action of assumpsit for money had and received, brought by The Great Western Insurance Company, of New York, against W. […]

80 U.S. 63 80 U.S. 63 20 L.Ed. 533 13 Wall. 63 HALLIBURTON, MARSHALL,v.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 THIS case, like the former, came here on error to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The action was debt upon a marshal’s bond, conditioned for faithful performance of all the duties of the […]

80 U.S. 633 80 U.S. 633 20 L.Ed. 711 13 Wall. 633 PUGHv.UNITED STATES. December Term, 1871 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: By the act of Congress of 1855, constituting the Court of Claims, jurisdiction is given to it to hear and determine all claims against the United States founded […]