Category: 1873

87 U.S. 72 87 U.S. 72 22 L.Ed. 295 20 Wall. 72 NATIONAL BANK OF WASHINGTONv.TEXAS. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; the case being thus: The United States, on the 1st of January, 1851, issued to the State of Texas for the sale of a portion of […]

87 U.S. 8 87 U.S. 8 22 L.Ed. 309 20 Wall. 8 CREIGHTONv.KERR. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Colorado; the case being thus: The statutes of Colorado relating to attachments enact: ‘SECTION 54. Whenever a plaintiff in any civil action pending in any court of record in this […]

87 U.S. 92 87 U.S. 92 22 L.Ed. 320 20 Wall. 92 THE CONFISCATION CASES.SLIDELL’S LAND. October Term, 1873 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: 2 On the 17th of July, 1862, Congress passed an act entitled ‘An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and […]

87 U.S. 653 87 U.S. 653 22 L.Ed. 410 20 Wall. 653 PARCELSv.JOHNSON. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Missouri. Mrs. Johnson brought suit against one Parcels, in one of the Circuit Courts of Adair County, Missouri, to have an assignment of dower in a certain one hundred and twenty acres of […]

87 U.S. 655 87 U.S. 655 22 L.Ed. 455 20 Wall. 655 LOAN ASSOCIATIONv.TOPEKA. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Kansas. The Citizens’ Savings and Loan Association of Cleveland brought their action in the court below, against the city of Topeka, on coupons for interest attached to bonds of […]

87 U.S. 670 87 U.S. 670 22 L.Ed. 452 20 Wall. 670 BASEY ET AL.v.GALLAGHER. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. The case was thus: The organic act of the Territory just named recognizes the distinction between the jursidictions of law and equity, but requires that proceedings in […]

87 U.S. 652 87 U.S. 652 22 L.Ed. 449 20 Wall. 652 TREATv.JEMISON. October Term, 1874 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of California. 2 Rule twenty-one of this court provides that the brief of the counsel for the plaintiff in error shall contain, ‘in the order here stated,’—— 3 1. A […]

87 U.S. 590 87 U.S. 590 22 L.Ed. 429 20 Wall. 590 MURDOCKv.CITY OF MEMPHIS. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Tennessee; the case being thus: The Constitution of the United States after vesting the judicial power of the United States ‘in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the […]

87 U.S. 643 87 U.S. 643 22 L.Ed. 446 20 Wall. 643 THE RAILROAD COMPANYv.MARYLAND.ON MOTION. October Term, 1874 ON motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Court of Appeals of Maryland. The case was thus: The State of Maryland sued the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company in the Supreme Court of Baltimore, […]

87 U.S. 646 87 U.S. 646 22 L.Ed. 448 20 Wall. 646 MATHEWSv.McSTEA. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of New York. On motion to dismiss the writ for want of jurisdiction. The case was thus: On the 15th of April and 19th of April, 1861, the President, by his proclamation, […]

87 U.S. 650 87 U.S. 650 22 L.Ed. 448 20 Wall. 650 CADLEv.BAKER. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the District Court for the Middle District of Alabama; the case being thus: The forty-sixth and forty-seventh sections of the National Currency Act* provide that if any of the banks which it authorizes fail to redeem their […]

87 U.S. 577 87 U.S. 577 22 L.Ed. 417 20 Wall. 577 CANNONv.NEW ORLEANS. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Louisiana; the case being thus: The Constitution of the United States ordains as follows:1 “Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, and with the […]

87 U.S. 583 87 U.S. 583 22 L.Ed. 427 20 Wall. 583 CLARKv.IOWA CITY. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Iowa. The case was thus: On the 1st of March, 1856, Iowa City issued a number of bonds, dated on the day just named, promising in each to pay […]

87 U.S. 64 87 U.S. 64 22 L.Ed. 315 20 Wall. 64 OREGON STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANYv.WINSOR. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Washington. The Oregon Steam Navigation Company sued Winsor et al. in one of the courts of the Territory of Washington, to recover $75,000 as stipulated damages for […]

87 U.S. 528 87 U.S. 528 22 L.Ed. 406 20 Wall. 528 PACKET COMPANYv.CLOUGH. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. In January, 1870, Carlos Clough and Sarah, his wife, in right of the wife, sued the Union Packet Company, in an action on the case to recover […]

87 U.S. 546 87 U.S. 546 22 L.Ed. 403 20 Wall. 546 AMBLERv.WHIPPLE. October Term, 1874 1 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. 2 Ambler filed a bill in the court just named against one Whipple and a certain Dickerson. A cross-bill and a supplemental bill, made additional pleadings. 3 The […]

87 U.S. 560 87 U.S. 560 22 L.Ed. 423 20 Wall. 560 INSURANCE COMPANYv.COLT. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut; in which court Colt sued the Franklin Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, on a policy of insurance which he alleged had been executed by the company; an allegation on […]

87 U.S. 571 87 U.S. 571 22 L.Ed. 387 20 Wall. 571 GILLETTEv.BULLARD. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. Bullard, assignee of Marden, sued Gillette upon an appeal bond. The action was commenced on the 30th of January, 1872. The complaint alleged that on the 15th June, 1868, […]

87 U.S. 575 87 U.S. 575 22 L.Ed. 451 20 Wall. 575 LONGSTRETHv.PENNOCK. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court of Pennsylvania; the case being thus: A Pennsylvania statute of June 16th, 1836,* enacts as follows: ‘The goods and chattels being in or upon any messuage, lands, or tenements, which are or shall be […]

87 U.S. 517 87 U.S. 517 22 L.Ed. 421 20 Wall. 517 UNITED STATESv.GILL. October Term, 1874 1 APPEAL from the Court of Claims; the case as found by that court being thus: 2 I. In November, 1864, A. J. Gill was owner of five hundred and thirty-six tons of hay, at Point of Rocks, […]