Category: 1896

161 U.S. 500 16 S.Ct. 640 40 L.Ed. 786 MATTHEWSv.UNITED STATES. No. 778. March 16, 1896. W. J. Townsend and Charles A. Hess, for plaintiff in error. Asst. Atty. Gen. Whitney, for defendant in error. Mr. Justice PECKHAM, after ? ating the above facts, delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The only point suggested […]

161 U.S. 446 16 S.Ct. 562 40 L.Ed. 765 SWEARINGENv.UNITED STATES. No. 567. March 9, 1896. [Syllabus from pages 446-448 intentionally omitted] J. D. McCleverty, for plaintiff in error. Asst. Atty. Gen. Whitney, for the United States. Mr. Justice SHIRAS, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court. 1 […]

161 U.S. 451 16 S.Ct. 618 40 L.Ed. 766 UNION PAC. RY. CO.v.O’BRIEN. No. 119. March 9, 1896. This was an action brought by Nora O’Brien against the Union Pacific Railway Company, in the circuit court for the district of Colorado, to recover damages for the death of her husband, John O’Brien, who was in […]

161 U.S. 459 16 S.Ct. 516 40 L.Ed. 771 THE DELAWARE Nos. 555 and 570. March 2, 1896. This was a suit in admiralty, instituted by Charles H. Winnett, the owner and master, and the crew of the tug Talisman against the steamship Delaware, to recover damages for a collision between these vessels, which occurred […]

161 U.S. 475 16 S.Ct. 641 40 L.Ed. 777 UNITED STATESv.ZUCKER et al. No. 794. March 2, 1896. Mr. Whitney, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the United States. Abram J. Rose, for defendant in error. Mr. Justice HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court. 1 By the act of June 10, 1890 (chapter 407), known as […]

161 U.S. 375 16 S.Ct. 592 40 L.Ed. 738 SPALDING et al.v.MASON. No. 55. March 2, 1896. Bill by George Mason against Harvey Spalding and others. From a decree of the general term against defendant Spalding and the sureties on his bond for appeal from the special term they appeal. Mason filed his bill in […]

161 U.S. 397 16 S.Ct. 571 40 L.Ed. 746 HANSENv.BOYD et al. No. 113. March 2, 1896. The action below was instituted by defendants in error to recover from plaintiff in error the amount of payments alleged to have been made for account of defendant between the 24th day of August, 1888, and the 8th […]

161 U.S. 412 16 S.Ct. 576 40 L.Ed. 751 UNITED STATESv.STANFORD. No. 783. March 2, 1896. Sol. Gen. Conrad and Asst. Atty. Gen. Dickinson, for the United states. Joseph H. Choate, for appellee. Mr. Justice HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The United States seeks by this suit to establish a claim against […]

161 U.S. 434 16 S.Ct. 613 40 L.Ed. 760 CITY OF EVANSVILLEv.DENNETT. No. 509. March 2, 1896. Geo. A. Cunningham, for plaintiff in error. George A. Sanders and A. W. Hatch, for defendant in error. Mr. Justice HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This case is here upon a certificate by the judges […]

161 U.S. 355 16 S.Ct. 490` 40 L.Ed. 731 SMITH et al.v.McKAY. No. 83. March 2, 1896. In the circuit court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, Gordon McKay, as trustee for the McKay Sewing Machine Association, and a citizen of the state of Rhode Island, filed a bill of complaint against […]

161 U.S. 359 16 S.Ct. 526 40 L.Ed. 732 GRAVES et al.v.SALINE COUNTY. No. 510. March 2, 1896. This case came into the circuit court of appeals for the Seventh circuit at October term, 1894, on an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of the United States for the Southern district of Illinois. […]

161 U.S. 350 16 S.Ct. 454 40 L.Ed. 729 COCHRANv.BLOUT et al. No. 116. March 2, 1896. On July 21, 1890, George W. Cocharan filed in the supreme court of the District of Columbia a bill of complaint against Isaac L. Blout, trustee, James P. Ryon, and Julius Lansburgh, whereby he sought a decree, in […]

161 U.S. 316 16 S.Ct. 564 40 L.Ed. 712 MASHINGTON GASLIGHT CO.v.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. No. 40. March 2, 1896. In July, 1879, Marietta M. Parker sued the District of Columbia to recover damages for an injury to her person, alleged to have been suffered from stepping into a certain ‘deep and dangerous hole’ in the […]

161 U.S. 334 16 S.Ct. 512 40 L.Ed. 721 SCHROEDER et al.v.YOUNG. No. 458. March 2, 1896. This was a complaint in the nature of a bill in equity, originally filed in the Third judicial district court of the territory of Utah, by John M. Young against Frank B. Stephens and wife and Albert T. […]

161 U.S. 346 16 S.Ct. 485 40 L.Ed. 727 DOUGLASv.WALLACE et al. No. 611. March 2, 1896. Action by Isaac Wallace and others against Robert M. Douglas. A judgment for plaintiff was affirmed by the state supreme court, and defendant brings error. On motion to dismiss. This was a motion to dismiss a writ of […]

161 U.S. 291 16 S.Ct. 495 40 L.Ed. 703 LEIGHTONv.UNITED STATES et al. No. 413. March 2, 1896. This case is before us on appeal from a judgment of the court of claims dismissing the claimant’s petition. The amended petition on which the case was tried, after stating the facts of the depredation, the citizenship […]

161 U.S. 297 16 S.Ct. 476 40 L.Ed. 706 MARKS et al.v.UNITED STATES et al. No. 352. March 2, 1896. C. A. Keigwin and A. H. Garland, for appellants. On July 8, 1891, appellants, as claimants, filed their petition in the court of claims, under the act of March 3, 1891 (26 Stat. 851),1 to […]

161 U.S. 306 16 S.Ct. 508 40 L.Ed. 709 DURLANDv.UNITED STATES. Nos. 528 and 529. March 2, 1896. Indictment against John H. Durland for using the mails to promote a scheme to defraud. Defendant was convicted in each case, and brings error. Affirmed. These cases have so much in common that they may be considered […]

161 U.S. 256 16 S.Ct. 585 40 L.Ed. 691 HAMILTON et al.v.BROWN et al. No. 241. March 2, 1896. This was an action brought, April 12, 1890, in the circuit court of the United States for the Western district of Texas, by Joseph F. Hamilton, a citizen of Missouri, Lewis Hamilton, and Mary A. Post, […]

161 U.S. 275 16 S.Ct. 502 40 L.Ed. 700 DAVISv.ELMIRA SAV. BANK. No. 415. March 2, 1896. Action by the Elmira Savings Bank against Charles Davis, receiver of the Elmira National Bank. A judgment for plaintiff was affirmed by the New York court of appeals (142 N. Y. 590, 37 N. E. 646), and said […]