Category: 1872

84 U.S. 570 84 U.S. 570 21 L.Ed. 657 17 Wall. 570 HORNv.LOCKHART ET AL. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Alabama; the case being thus: In March, 1858, one John Horn, of Marengo County, Alabama, died leaving a considerable estate, including a homestead plantation of 720 acres, […]

84 U.S. 582 84 U.S. 582 21 L.Ed. 682 17 Wall. 582 THE MERRITT. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; the case being thus: By a statute of 1792,1 it is enacted that no ships but those which have been registered in the manner therein prescribed, shall […]

84 U.S. 586 84 U.S. 586 21 L.Ed. 670 17 Wall. 586 KNODEv.WILLIAMSON. October Term, 1873 1 ERROR to the District Court for the District of West Virginia. 2 Knode sued Williamson in the court below in trespass. 3 In the course of the trial the plaintiff offered in evidence the deposition of J. A. […]

84 U.S. 590 84 U.S. 590 21 L.Ed. 692 17 Wall. 590 HARRELLv.BEALL, ASSIGNEE. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Beall brought a suit in chancery in the court below, in his character of assignee in bankruptcy of one Jarrell, against a certain Harrell and one Echols, […]

84 U.S. 592 84 U.S. 592 21 L.Ed. 715 17 Wall. 592 MANUFACTURING COMPANYv.UNITED STATES. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Court of Claims. The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company brought suit in the Court of Claims against the United States on a contract, by which the company had agreed to make and deliver, and the United […]

84 U.S. 560 84 U.S. 560 21 L.Ed. 710 17 Wall. 560 RAILROAD COMPANYv.FULLER. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa; the case being thus: A statute of Iowa ‘in relation to the duties of railroad companies,’ passed in 1862,1 thus enacts: ‘In the month of September, annually, each […]

84 U.S. 545 84 U.S. 545 21 L.Ed. 685 17 Wall. 545 ELDREDv.BANK. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; the case being thus: A statute of Michigan known as the Joint Debtor Act1 thus enacts: ‘1. In actions against two or more persons, jointly indebted upon any […]

84 U.S. 515 84 U.S. 515 21 L.Ed. 669 17 Wall. 515 GOODWINv.UNITED STATES. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Court of Claims, in which court one Goodwin, who had chartered a schooner to the United States, at a fixed per diem, sought to recover the per diem during one hundred and forty-four days in […]

84 U.S. 517 84 U.S. 517 21 L.Ed. 656 17 Wall. 517 CUTNERv.UNITED STATES. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case as found by that court was thus: Cutner, a loyal citizen of the United States, resident at Savannah, Georgia, one of the States which went into rebellion, was, on the […]

84 U.S. 521 84 U.S. 521 21 L.Ed. 687 17 Wall. 521 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKSv.COLUMBIA COLLEGE ET AL. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. This was a suit in equity to reach property belonging to the estate of a deceased debtor, and have it applied to the […]

84 U.S. 532 84 U.S. 532 21 L.Ed. 707 17 Wall. 532 REAv.MISSOURI. October Term, 1873 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; the case being thus: 2 The First National Bank of Washington, D. C., in 1869, having a judgment against one Perry Fuller, who had been a large dealer […]

84 U.S. 553 84 U.S. 553 21 L.Ed. 739 17 Wall. 553 RAILROAD COMPANYv.FORT. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska. Fort brought a suit in the court below to recover damages for an injury to his son, aged sixteen years, resulting in the loss of an arm, while […]

84 U.S. 453 84 U.S. 453 21 L.Ed. 700 17 Wall. 453 ADAMSv.BURKE. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts; the case being thus: On the 26th day of May, 1863, letters-patent were granted to Merrill & Horner, for a certain improvement in coffinlids, giving to them the exclusive […]

84 U.S. 473 84 U.S. 473 21 L.Ed. 723 17 Wall. 473 WILSONv.CITY BANK. October Term, 1873 ON certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota; the case being thus: The Bankrupt Act of 18671 provides in the earlier part of it, that if any persons […]

84 U.S. 489 84 U.S. 489 21 L.Ed. 680 17 Wall. 489 CARPENTERv.UNITED STATES. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case as found by that court having been thus: In July, 1863, Major Hunt, of the corps of engineers, entered into negotiations with one Carpenter, owner of an island in Narragansett […]

84 U.S. 496 84 U.S. 496 21 L.Ed. 728 17 Wall. 496 UNITED STATESv.ISHAM. October Term, 1873 ON certificate of division in opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; the case being thus: The act of June 30th, 1864, ‘to provide internal revenue to support the government,’ &c.,1 […]

84 U.S. 508 84 U.S. 508 21 L.Ed. 705 17 Wall. 508 PACKET COMPANYv.McCUE. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The case was thus: Patrick McCue was a common laboring man, living in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and employed in the railroad warehouse in that place. On […]

84 U.S. 460 84 U.S. 460 21 L.Ed. 679 17 Wall. 460 PHILP ET AL.v.NOCK. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Nock brought an action in the court below against Philp and others to recover damages for the infringement of a patent granted to him by the United […]

84 U.S. 463 84 U.S. 463 21 L.Ed. 517 17 Wall. 463 CARLTONv.BOKEE. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland. William Carlton et al., as assignees of Christian Reichmann, filed their bill in equity in the court below to restrain Howard Bokee from infringing a patent for an improvement […]

84 U.S. 439 84 U.S. 439 21 L.Ed. 696 17 Wall. 439 EX PARTE ATOCHA. October Term, 1873 PETITION and motion for mandamus: the case being thus: By the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, made on the 2d of February, 1848, between the United States and Mexico, the United States exonerated Mexico from all demands of […]