85 U.S. 206 85 U.S. 206 21 L.Ed. 888 18 Wall. 206 THE DELAWARE RAILROAD TAX.MINOTv.THE PHILADELPHIA, WILINGTON AND BALTIMRE RAILROADCOMPANY AND OTHERS. October Term, 1873 1 By an act of the legislature of Maryland, passed in 1831, and its supplement, a corporation called the Delaware and Maryland Railroad Company was created, with authority to […]
Category: 1873
85 U.S. 233
85 U.S. 233 85 U.S. 233 21 L.Ed. 902 18 Wall. 233 RAILWAY COMPANYv.ALLERTON. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case being thus: The Chicago City Railway Company was a corporation owning a street railroad in Chicago. The directors of the company, without consulting the stockholders […]
85 U.S. 151
85 U.S. 151 85 U.S. 151 21 L.Ed. 775 18 Wall. 151 BATESVILLE INSTITUTEv.KAUFFMAN. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas; the case being thus: Womach and Welsh, builders, having a mechanics’ lien against an edifice and the grounds on which it stood at Batesville, Arkansas, owned by […]
85 U.S. 156
85 U.S. 156 85 U.S. 156 21 L.Ed. 860 18 Wall. 156 DAYv.MICOU. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Louisiana. An act of Congress, Commonly called the Confiscation Act, passed July 17th, 1862,1 during the rebellion, and entitled ‘An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to […]
85 U.S. 129
85 U.S. 129 85 U.S. 129 21 L.Ed. 929 18 Wall. 129 BARTEMEYERv.IOWA. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Iowa; the case being thus: Bartemeyer, the plaintiff in error, was tried before a justice of the peace on the charge of selling intoxicating liquors, on the 8th of March, 1870, to one […]
85 U.S. 141
85 U.S. 141 85 U.S. 141 21 L.Ed. 824 18 Wall. 141 SYKESv.CHADWICK. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the case being thus: James Sykes and H. A. Chadwick (the latter a married man, his wife being Eleanor Chadwick), owning a piece of real estate in the city […]
85 U.S. 112
85 U.S. 112 85 U.S. 112 21 L.Ed. 805 18 Wall. 112 BESTv.POLK. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi; the case being thus: By virtue of a treaty made October the 20th, 1832,1 the Chickasaw Nation of Indians, in the belief that it was better to seek […]
85 U.S. 120
85 U.S. 120 85 U.S. 120 21 L.Ed. 821 18 Wall. 120 COFFINv.OGDEN. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, in which court Coffin filed a bill against Ogden et al. to enjoin them from making door locks of a certain kind, the exclusive right to make […]
85 U.S. 125
85 U.S. 125 85 U.S. 125 21 L.Ed. 812 18 Wall. 125 UNITED STATESv.BUZZO. October Term, 1873 ON certificate of division of opinion between the judges of the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Michigan; the case being thus: An Internal Revenue Act1 of 1866 enacts ‘That any person who shall make . . […]
85 U.S. 1
85 U.S. 1 85 U.S. 1 21 L.Ed. 854 18 Wall. 1 ALLEN & CO.v.FERGUSON. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. P. H. Allen & Co. sued A. H. Ferguson upon a promissory note, dated March 20th, 1867, payable one day after date, with interest. Ferguson appeared […]
85 U.S. 106
85 U.S. 106 85 U.S. 106 21 L.Ed. 818 18 Wall. 106 UNIVERSITYv.FINCH. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Missouri; the case being thus: Daily and Chambers purchased of Elliott, in March, 1860, certain real estate in St. Louis, Missouri. For the principal part of the purchase-money they gave […]