Category: 1873

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. […]

87 U.S. 31 87 U.S. 31 22 L.Ed. 313 20 Wall. 31 KEHRv.SMITH. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Smith, assignee of Martin Meyer, a bankrupt, brought a bill in equity in the District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, to set aside as fraudulent a […]

87 U.S. 323 87 U.S. 323 22 L.Ed. 348 20 Wall. 323 STOCKDALEv.THE INSURANCE COMPANIES. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: The 116th section of the act of June 30th, 1864, as amended by the 13th section of the act of March 2d, 1867,1 […]

87 U.S. 342 87 U.S. 342 22 L.Ed. 303 20 Wall. 342 WASHING-MACHINE COMPANYv.TOOL COMPANY. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island. The Washing-Machine Company, assignee of Sylvanus Walker, this last being assignee of one Sergeant, filed a bill in the court below against the Providence Tool Company, […]

87 U.S. 264 87 U.S. 264 22 L.Ed. 344 20 Wall. 264 McPHAULv.LAPSLEY. October Term, 1873 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Texas; the case being thus:The State of Texas has made a succession of statutes, on the subject of recording instruments, relating to the titles of real estate. They […]

87 U.S. 251 87 U.S. 251 22 L.Ed. 275 20 Wall. 251 UNITED STATESv.HERRON. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: The Bankrupt Act of 1867—which in its general outlines, as in many of its details, follows (as did prior Bankrupt Acts of the United […]

87 U.S. 289 87 U.S. 289 22 L.Ed. 264 20 Wall. 289 CITY OF MEMPHISv.BROWN. October Term, 1873 1 [Syllabus from pages 289-291 intentionally omitted] 2 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Western District of Tennessee; the case, as appeared from a master’s report, and otherwise, having been thus: 3 By a general incorporation […]

87 U.S. 201 87 U.S. 201 22 L.Ed. 259 20 Wall. 201 THE LOTTAWANNA. October Term, 1873 1 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case—divested of irrelative incidents, with a great number of which, as seen in the record, it had come here confused and perplexed—was thus:In the year 1819 […]

87 U.S. 226 87 U.S. 226 22 L.Ed. 254 20 Wall. 226 CORNETTv.WILLIAMS. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Western District of Texas, in which court Henry Williams brought trespass to try title against one Cornett, to settle the question of ownership of a certain league of land in Bastrop County, […]

87 U.S. 171 87 U.S. 171 22 L.Ed. 273 20 Wall. 171 BANKv.COOPER. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York; the case being thus: On the 4th of February, 1870, the Troy Woolen Company was adjudged a bankrupt by the District Court for the Northern District of […]

87 U.S. 179 87 U.S. 179 22 L.Ed. 339 20 Wall. 179 TWENTY PER CENT. CASES. October Term, 1873 APPEALS in fourteen cases from the Court of Claims; the case being thus: On the 28th of February, 1867, Congress passed this joint resolution:1 ‘That there shall be allowed and paid . . . to the […]

87 U.S. 189 87 U.S. 189 22 L.Ed. 342 20 Wall. 189 PAHLMANv.THE COLLECTOR. October Term, 1873 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois. 2 Pahlman & Co., distillers in the district of Illinois just named, sued Raster, a collector of internal revenue in the same district, to recover of […]

87 U.S. 20 87 U.S. 20 22 L.Ed. 279 20 Wall. 20 HUMASTONv.TELEGRAPH COMPANY. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York; the case being thus: Humaston having invented certain instruments for expediting the transmission and reception of messages by telegraph, and especially for perforating paper for the […]

87 U.S. 152 87 U.S. 152 22 L.Ed. 338 20 Wall. 152 SIMPSONv.GREELEY. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Kansas. Carlos Greeley sued William A. Simpson and eight other persons in one of the county courts of Kansas, to recover certain lands, together with damages for the detention of them; and for […]

87 U.S. 159 87 U.S. 159 22 L.Ed. 250 20 Wall. 159 INSURANCE COMPANYv.BARING. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; in which court Baring Brothers & Co. sued the Merchants’ Mutual Insurance Company, of New Orleans, for advances made by them, as the declaration in the case alleged, […]

87 U.S. 165 87 U.S. 165 22 L.Ed. 252 20 Wall. 165 ROACHv.SUMMERS. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Summers & Co. filed a bill in the court below against Eugene and Naylor Roach (the last a representative of I. W. Roach, deceased), and R. B. and […]

87 U.S. 125 87 U.S. 125 22 L.Ed. 299 20 Wall. 125 BURTONv.DRIGGS. October Term, 1873 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Vermont; the case being thus: 2 A certain O. A. Burton, of Vermont, in April, 1859, meeting in New York with one William Driggs, of Michigan, offered to sell […]

87 U.S. 137 87 U.S. 137 22 L.Ed. 331 20 Wall. 137 TIOGA RAILROADv.BLOSSBURG AND CORNING RAILROAD. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York. The Tioga Railroad Company was a corporation duly organized under the laws of Pennsylvania, and was the proprietor of a railroad extending from […]

87 U.S. 14 87 U.S. 14 22 L.Ed. 311 20 Wall. 14 MCQUIDDYv.WARE. October Term, 1873 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Missouri; the case being thus: At the beginning of the late rebellion, which broke out in 1861, McQuiddy, a resident of Nodaway County, missouri, and owning a farm there, […]

87 U.S. 117 87 U.S. 117 22 L.Ed. 328 20 Wall. 117 KNAPPv.RAILROAD COMPANY. October Term, 1873 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Vermont; the only question in the case being whether the suit originally brought in a State court (the County Court for the County of Bennington), had been rightly removed […]