Category: 1896

160 U.S. 438 16 S.Ct. 338 40 L.Ed. 485 SOUTHERN PAC. CO.v.POOL. No. 21. January 6, 1896. Maxwell Evarts, for plaintiff in error. Samuel Shellabarger, for defendant in error. Mr. Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The action was brought below to recover damages from the defendant (plaintiff in error here), upon […]

160 U.S. 452 16 S.Ct. 345 40 L.Ed. 490 ELDRIDGEv.TREZEVANT et al. No. 62 January 6, 1896. William B. Eldridge, a citizen of the state of Mississippi, filed in the circuit court of the United States for the Western district of Louisiana a bill of complaint against Henry B. Richardson, chief of the board of […]

160 U.S. 379 16 S.Ct. 349 40 L.Ed. 463 KIRBY et al.v.TALLMADGE. No. 96. January 6, 1896. This was a bill in equity filed by Maria E. Tallmadge against the appellants to set aside and remove, as a cloud upon her title, a deed made by the appellants Richard H. Miller, Elizabeth Houchens, and Ella […]

160 U.S. 389 16 S.Ct. 344 40 L.Ed. 467 IOWA CENT. RY. CO.v.STATE OF IOWA. No. 128. January 6, 1896. In 1880 the Central Iowa Railway Company, which had become the owner, through foreclosure proceedings, of the railroad of the Central Railway Company of Iowa, leased to the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Company, about […]

160 U.S. 394 16 S.Ct. 360 40 L.Ed. 469 SPALDINGv.CHANDLER. No. 86. January 6, 1896. J. C. Donnelly and A. C. Raymond, for plaintiff in error. John H. Goff, for defendant in error. Mr. Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the court. 1 Plaintiff in error, by a bill in equity filed in the circuit […]

160 U.S. 408 16 S.Ct. 327 40 L.Ed. 474 HICKORYv.UNITED STATES. No. 491. January 6, 1896. Asst. Atty. Gen. Whitney, for the United States. Mr. Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the court. 1 Sam Downing, alias Sam Hickory, and Thomas Shade were indicted, in October, 1891, for the murder in the Indian Territory of […]

160 U.S. 357 16 S.Ct. 334 40 L.Ed. 455 BARTLETT et al.v.LOCKWOOD et al. No. 95. January 6, 1896. This was a motion to dismiss a writ of error sued out by the firm of E. B. Bartlett & Co., defendants in the court below, to review a judgment obtained against them in the supreme […]

160 U.S. 369 16 S.Ct. 370 40 L.Ed. 460 VAN WAGENEN et al.v.SEWALL. No. 140. January 6, 1896. This was a petition by Sarah Van Wagenen and others for the review and reversal of certain proceedings in the case of John M. Hanson v. The United States, and of a decree rendered therein, ordering a […]

160 U.S. 374 16 S.Ct. 318 40 L.Ed. 461 UNION MUT. LIFE INS. CO.v.KIRCHOFF. No. 132. January 6, 1896. This was a bill in equity, originally filed by Elizabeth Kirchoff, June 12, 1882, in the circuit court of Cook county, Ill., against the appellant, to enforce the specific performance of a certain agreement for the […]

160 U.S. 327 16 S.Ct. 307 40 L.Ed. 444 LEHIGH NIN. & MANUF’G CO.v.KELLY et al. No. 617. December 16, 1895. Action by the Lehigh Mining & Manufacturing Company against J. J. Kelly, Jr., James C. Hubbard, Le Roy Day, and others. The action was dismissed by the circuit court (64 Fed. 401), and plaintiff, […]

160 U.S. 355 16 S.Ct. 321 40 L.Ed. 454 PIERCE et al.v.UNITED STATES. No. 648. January 6, 1896. George Pierce and John Pierce were convicted of murder, and they bring error. Affirmed. The plaintiffs in error were indicted for the murder on January 15, 1895, in the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian country, of one […]

160 U.S. 303 16 S.Ct. 282 40 L.Ed. 436 HAWS et al.v.VICTORIA COPPER MIN. CO. No. 66. December 23, 1895. F. D. McKenney, for appellants. C. H. Armes and A. A. Birney, for appellee. Mr. Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The Victoria Copper Mining Company, a corporation created under the laws […]

160 U.S. 319 16 S.Ct. 288 40 L.Ed. 441 MARKHAMv.UNITED STATES. No. 544. December 16, 1895. The plaintiff in error was indicted in the district court of the United States for the district of Kentucky for the crime of perjury, as defined in section 5392 of the Revised Statutes. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The […]

160 U.S. 288 16 S.Ct. 276 40 L.Ed. 430 JERSEY CITY & B. R. CO.v.MORGAN. No. 97. December 23, 1895. This was an action of trespass brought by James E. Morgan against the Jersey City & Bergen Railroad Company in the circuit court of Hudson county, N. J., to recover damages for his ejection from […]

160 U.S. 293 16 S.Ct. 304 40 L.Ed. 432 KOHLv.LEHLBACK, Sheriff. No. 650. December 23, 1895. This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court of the United States for the district of New Jersey, entered May 16, 1895, denying a writ of habeas corpus on the petition of Henry Kohl thereor. Petitioner […]

160 U.S. 231 16 S.Ct. 297 40 L.Ed. 406 WHITTENv.TOMLINSON, Sheriff. No. 619. December 16, 1895. This was a petition, filed March 26, 1895, in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Connecticut, and addressed to the Honorable William K. Townsend, the district judge, as a judge of the circuit court, […]

160 U.S. 247 16 S.Ct. 291 40 L.Ed. 414 In re SANFORD FORK & TOOL CO. et al. No. 8. December 23, 1895. This was a petition for a writ of mandamus to the Honorable William A. Woods, as judge of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Indiana, to command […]

160 U.S. 259 16 S.Ct. 269 40 L.Ed. 418 CENTRAL R. CO. OF NEW JERSEYv.KEEGAN. No. 373. December 23, 1895. The action below was brought by keegan to recover damages for personal injuries sustained while acting as brakeman in the employ of the railroad company. Judgment having been rendered upon the verdict of a jury […]

160 U.S. 268 16 S.Ct. 294 40 L.Ed. 422 MOOREv.UNITED STATES. No. 719. December 23, 1895. Plaintiff in error, late assistant postmaster of the city of Mobile, was indicted and convicted of embezzling certain moneys of the United States, to the amount of $1,652.59. There were four counts in the indictment, to one of which […]

160 U.S. 276 16 S.Ct. 278 40 L.Ed. 426 KEANEv.BRYGGER et al. No. 94. December 23, 1895. 1 This is an action for the possession of certain parcels of land in Washington territory, brought in its Third judicial district. The land constitutes the S. W. 1/4 of the N. W. 1/4 of section 11 in […]