Category: 1874

90 U.S. 85 90 U.S. 85 23 L.Ed. 152 23 Wall. 85 INSURANCE COMPANYv.YOUNG’S ADMINISTRATOR. October Term, 1874 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of California, in which court the administrator of McPherson Young, of San Francisco, sued the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York (a company incorporated by the State […]

90 U.S. 566 90 U.S. 566 23 L.Ed. 31 23 Wall. 566 THE WOOD-PAPER PATENT.1THE AMERICAN WOOD-PAPER CO.v.THE FIBRE DISINTEGRATING CO.THE FIBRE DISINTEGRATING CO.v.THE AMERICAN WOOD-PAPER CO. October Term, 1874 1 CROSS APPEALS from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of New York. 2 The preceding case has treated somewhat of the manufacture of […]

90 U.S. 530 90 U.S. 530 23 L.Ed. 128 23 Wall. 530 COLLAR COMPANYv.VAN DUSEN. October Term, 1874 1 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, in which court the Union Paper-collar Company filed a bill against Van Dusen, to enjoin him from making shirt-collars out of a certain sort […]

90 U.S. 69 90 U.S. 69 23 L.Ed. 84 23 Wall. 69 THE DEXTER. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Maryland, affirming a decree of the District Court dismissing a libel filed by the owners of the schooner Julia against another schooner, the Dexter, in a cause of collision […]

90 U.S. 77 90 U.S. 77 23 L.Ed. 44 23 Wall. 77 THE TEUTONIA. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; the case being thus: On the night of December 30th, 1868, the iron steamship Teutonia, an ocean vessel of twenty-five hundred tons burden, then arriving by sea from […]

90 U.S. 504 90 U.S. 504 23 L.Ed. 160 23 Wall. 504 EX PARTE MEDWAY. October Term, 1874 ON petition for mandamus. The case was thus: Medway had filed a petition in the Court of Claims for the recovery, under the Abandoned and Captured Property Acts, of the proceeds of ninety-four bales of cotton, of […]

90 U.S. 507 90 U.S. 507 23 L.Ed. 103 23 Wall. 507 RAILROAD COMPANYv.WISWALL. October Term, 1874 ON motion to dismiss a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois. The case was this: Wiswall, a citizen of Illinois, sued, in one of the inferior State courts of the State […]

90 U.S. 508 90 U.S. 508 23 L.Ed. 78 23 Wall. 508 UNITED STATESv.SHREWSBURY. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Court of Claims. The case § found by the Court of Claims was thus: On the 27th of March, 1865, W. S. Shrewsbury entered into a contract with the United States to transport army stores […]

90 U.S. 518 90 U.S. 518 23 L.Ed. 97 23 Wall. 518 THE TREMOLO PATENT.TREMAINEv.HITCHCOCK & CO.HITCHCOCK & CO.v.TREMAINE. October Term, 1874 1 ON cross appeals from the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York. 2 Hitchcock & Co., owners by assignment of a patent to one Carpenter, which had been twice reissued […]

90 U.S. 471 90 U.S. 471 23 L.Ed. 71 23 Wall. 471 GRAND TOWER COMPANYv.PHILLIPS ET AL. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois; in which court Phillips & St. John, partners, sued the Grand Tower Company—a mining, manufacturing, and transportation corporation of Illinois—to recover damages for breach […]

90 U.S. 480 90 U.S. 480 23 L.Ed. 112 23 Wall. 480 HEPBURNv.THE SCHOOL DIRECTORS. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The case was thus: An act of Congress of February 10th, 1868, relating to the taxation by States of shares in the National banks, thus enacts:1 ‘The leg slature of […]

90 U.S. 486 90 U.S. 486 23 L.Ed. 75 23 Wall. 486 GREENv.GREEN. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The case was thus: Thomas Green, by deed dated January 15th, 1867, conveyed certain real estate in Georgetown, D. C., to James Green, in fee in trust. The trust […]

90 U.S. 492 90 U.S. 492 23 L.Ed. 121 23 Wall. 492 MORAN ET AL.v.PRATHER. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana; in which court J. G. Prather filed a petition against Moran & Noble, setting forth in substance a case thus: That he, the said Prather, with one […]

90 U.S. 466 90 U.S. 466 23 L.Ed. 70 23 Wall. 466 LEWISv.COCKS. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Louisiana. In March, 1863, Anderson, alleging himself to be a creditor to the extent of $8840 of one Cocks, filed a petition in the ‘Provisional Court of New Orleans’—a court established by proclamation […]

90 U.S. 420 90 U.S. 420 23 L.Ed. 138 23 Wall. 420 CROSBYv.BUCHANAN. October Term, 1874 1 [Syllabus from pages 420-422 intentionally omitted] 2 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for the Western District of Virginia. The case was thus: 3 William King, of Abingdon, a village of Washington County, in the southwest courner of Virginia—a […]

90 U.S. 458 90 U.S. 458 23 L.Ed. 158 23 Wall. 458 THE RIO GRANDE. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Circuit Court for Louisiana; the case being thus: In October, 1866, one Williams, a steamboat captain, purchased in New Orleans, a steamboat called the Rio Grande, and took her to Mobile, Alabama. He there […]

90 U.S. 46 90 U.S. 46 23 L.Ed. 59 23 Wall. 46 COUNTY OF ST. CLAIRv.LOVINGSTON. October Term, 1874 1 ERROR to the Supreme Court of Illinois. 2 The county of St. Clair, Illinois, brought ejectment against Lovingston, for a piece of land within its own boundaries, situated on the east bank of the river […]

90 U.S. 383 90 U.S. 383 23 L.Ed. 104 23 Wall. 383 DONOVANv.UNITED STATES. October Term, 1874 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Donovan was surveyor of the port of St. Louis, ‘performing the duties of collector,’ from January, 1860, to May, 1861. In the settlement of his accounts with […]

90 U.S. 405 90 U.S. 405 23 L.Ed. 136 23 Wall. 405 RAILROAD COMPANYv.SWASEY. October Term, 1874 On motion to dismiss, for want of jurisdiction, as not ‘final,’ an appeal from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. The case was thus: The State of North Carolina by acts of her legislature […]

90 U.S. 411 90 U.S. 411 23 L.Ed. 89 23 Wall. 411 UNITED STATESv.WILLIAMSON. October Term, 1874 APPEAL from the Court of Claims. The case was thus: An act of March 3d, 1863,1 relating to the government of the army, enacts—— ‘That any officer absent from duty with leave, except for sickness or wounds, shall, […]