Category: 1873

87 U.S. 520 87 U.S. 520 22 L.Ed. 376 20 Wall. 520 POLLARDv.BAILEY. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. By an act passed in 1854, the legislature of Alabama chartered a bank to be called the Central Bank of Alabama. The capital was $900,000, divided into shares […]

87 U.S. 543 87 U.S. 543 22 L.Ed. 422 20 Wall. 543 EXPRESS COMPANYv.WARE. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska; the case being thus: The Code of Nebraska bars actions upon contract in five years. The defendant’s absence from the State is not, however, to be computed. But […]

87 U.S. 498 87 U.S. 498 22 L.Ed. 410 20 Wall. 498 RUBBER-TIP PENCIL COMPANYv.HOWARD. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York; the case being thus: On the 23d of July, 1867, J. B. Blair, an artist, alleging himself to be the original and first inventor of […]

87 U.S. 507 87 U.S. 507 22 L.Ed. 414 20 Wall. 507 ATCHISONv.PETERSON. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. Atchison and others filed a bill in the District Court of the Territory just named, for an injunction to restrain Peterson and others from carrying on certain mining operations […]

87 U.S. 494 87 U.S. 494 22 L.Ed. 398 20 Wall. 494 EQUITABLE INSURANCE COMPANYv.HEARNE. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. The controversy in this case grew out of a contract of insurance upon the same charter-party as in the preceding case, though here the insurance was by […]

87 U.S. 459 87 U.S. 459 22 L.Ed. 371 20 Wall. 459 SPROTTv.UNITED STATES. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Court of Claims. The act known as the Captured and Abandoned Property Act, passed March 12th, 1863,1 providing for ‘the collection of abandoned property, &c., in the insurrectionary districts within the United States,’ enacts that […]

87 U.S. 46 87 U.S. 46 22 L.Ed. 287 20 Wall. 46 NORTH MISSOURI RAILROAD COMPANYv.MAGUIRE. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Missouri, the case being thus: The North Missouri Railroad Company was incorporated by act of the legislature of Missouri, March 3d, 1851. By an act of January 7th, 1853, its […]

87 U.S. 475 87 U.S. 475 22 L.Ed. 400 20 Wall. 475 TITUSv.UNITED STATES. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia. The case was thus: On the 2d December, 1862, the executors of the will of C. J. McDonald, being fully authorized, sold and conveyed to the Confederate […]

87 U.S. 486 87 U.S. 486 22 L.Ed. 375 20 Wall. 486 BOLEYv.GRISWOLD. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Montana. The Civil Practice Act of the Territory of Montana thus enacts: ‘In an action to recover possession of personal property, judgment for the plaintiff may be for the possession […]

87 U.S. 488 87 U.S. 488 22 L.Ed. 395 20 Wall. 488 HEARNEv.MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. October Term, 1874 APPEAL in equity from the decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts. Hearne filed a bill in the court below against the New England Mutual Marine Insurance Company to reform a contract of insurance, […]

87 U.S. 421 87 U.S. 421 22 L.Ed. 362 20 Wall. 421 BELLE OF THE SEA. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; the case being thus: The American ship ‘Belle of the Sea,’ owned by one Kimball, being in the port of New York, a certain Hammond, […]

87 U.S. 430 87 U.S. 430 22 L.Ed. 391 20 Wall. 430 THE MONTELLO. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. In the southern part of the State of Wisconsin, about a mile and a half east of Portage City, and at a point about equidistant from the […]

87 U.S. 445 87 U.S. 445 22 L.Ed. 365 20 Wall. 445 INSURANCE COMPANYv.MORSE. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Wisconsin; the case being thus: A statute of Wisconsin, passed in 1870,1 enacts as follows: ‘It shall not be lawful for any fire insurance company, association, or partnership, incorporated by or organized […]

87 U.S. 375 87 U.S. 375 22 L.Ed. 383 20 Wall. 375 FERRISv.HIGLEY. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah. The case, which involved a question as to the jurisdiction of the Probate Courts of Utah, was thus: In 1850 Congress passed an act ‘to establish a Territorial government […]

87 U.S. 387 87 U.S. 387 22 L.Ed. 354 20 Wall. 387 NEW ORLEANSv.THE STEAMSHIP COMPANY. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: On the 1st of May, 1862, the army of the United States captured the city of New Orleans. It was held by […]

87 U.S. 403 87 U.S. 403 22 L.Ed. 361 20 Wall. 403 LYONv.POLLARD. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Mrs. E. A. Pollard sued J. E. Lyon in the court below, and declared on a written contract, by which Lyon agreed to furnish the means of carrying on […]

87 U.S. 407 87 U.S. 407 22 L.Ed. 385 20 Wall. 407 AVERYv.HACKLEY. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Michigan. Avery, assignee of Blake, a bankrupt, brought trover in the court below against Hackley & Co. to recover the value of certain saw-logs, alleging that they had been […]

87 U.S. 414 87 U.S. 414 22 L.Ed. 389 20 Wall. 414 MAYSv.FRITTON. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; the case being thus: In the year 1862, one Born executed a mortgage to Doll and others, on real estate which he then owned. Some years afterwards, that is to say, on […]

87 U.S. 36 87 U.S. 36 22 L.Ed. 282 20 Wall. 36 PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANYv.MAGUIRE. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Missouri, the question involved having been the right of a tax-collector of the State of Missouri to levy a tax authorized by an ordinance of the State named, on the property […]

87 U.S. 385 87 U.S. 385 22 L.Ed. 385 20 Wall. 385 THE S. B. WHEELER. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts; the case being thus: About one o’clock at night, on the 18th of July, 1871, a collision occurred in the Vineyard Sound, between the schooners C. […]