Category: 1896

160 U.S. 203 16 S.Ct. 252 40 L.Ed. 395 ALLISONv.UNITED STATES. No. 693. December 16, 1895. John Allison, some 20 years old, was indicted for the murder of his father, William Allison, on the 5th day of January, 1895, at the Cherokee Nation in the Indian country, in the Western district of Arkansas, found guilty […]

160 U.S. 217 16 S.Ct. 272 40 L.Ed. 401 INTERIOR CONST. & IMP. CO.v.GIBNEY et al. No. 99. December 16, 1895. This was an action at law, brought June 9, 1890, in the circuit court of the United States for the district of Indiana, by the Interior Construction & Improvement Company against John C. Gibney […]

160 U.S. 221 16 S.Ct. 273 40 L.Ed. 402 In re KEASBEY & MATTISON CO. No. 6, Original. December 16, 1895. This was a petition for a writ of mandamus to the judges of the circuit court of the United States for the Southern district of New York, to command them to take jurisdiction and […]

160 U.S. 149 16 S.Ct. 225 40 L.Ed. 374 BAMBERGER et al.v.SCHOOLFIELD et al. No. 48. December 9, 1895. The controversy below was what is known, in the jurisprudence of Alabama, as a ‘statutory claim suit,’ and grew out of an attachment proceeding instituted by plaintiffs in error against one Henry Warten. Under the writ, […]

160 U.S. 171 16 S.Ct. 258 40 L.Ed. 383 TOWNSENDv.VANDERWERKER. No. 73. December 16, 1895. This was a bill in equity to recover one-half the value of a certain piece of real estate in Washington, with the house thereon standing, of which one Julia R. Marvin died seised, together with a like proportion of the […]

160 U.S. 187 16 S.Ct. 263 40 L.Ed. 388 BALLEWv.UNITED STATES. No. 547. December 16, 1895. At the October term, 1893, of the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of Georgia, an indictment was found against the plaintiff in error, embracing two counts; the first charging him with wrongfully withholding from […]

160 U.S. 128 16 S.Ct. 244 40 L.Ed. 365 STREEPv.UNITED STATES. No. 623. December 2, 1895. This was an indictment in the circuit court of the United States for the Southern district of New York, on section 5480 of the Revised Statutes, as amended by the act of March 2, 1890, c. 393, and copied […]

160 U.S. 136 16 S.Ct. 247 40 L.Ed. 369 UNITED STATESv.HEALEY. No. 378. December 2, 1895. Asst. Atty. Gen. Dodge, for the United States. Harvey Spalding, for appellee. Mr. Justice HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court. 1 On the 5th day of February, 1889, the appellant, Benjamin Healey, filed in the local land office […]

160 U.S. 170 16 S.Ct. 321 40 L.Ed. 382 BOARD OF FLOUR INSPECTORS FOR PORT OF NEW ORLEANS et al.v.GLOVER et al. No. 88. December 9, 1895. 1 J. R. Beckwith, for appellants. 2 W. W. Howe, for appellees. 3 THE CHIEF JUSTICE. The decree below enjoined appellants from enforcing against appellees Act No. 71 […]

160 U.S. 103 16 S.Ct. 219 40 L.Ed. 346 WASHINGTON & I. R. CO.v.OSBORN. No. 5. December 2, 1895. The Washington & Idaho Railroad Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Washington territory, on September 18, 1888, filed a bill of complaint in the district court of the First judicial district of the territory […]

160 U.S. 110 16 S.Ct. 240 40 L.Ed. 358 McCARTY et al.v.LEHIGH VAL. R. CO. No. 9. December 2, 1895. This was a bill in equity for the infringement of two letters patent issued to McCarty for improvements in car trucks, viz. patent No. 314,459, dated March 24, 1885, and patent No. 339,913, dated April […]

160 U.S. 121 16 S.Ct. 222 40 L.Ed. 363 FOLSOMv.UNITED STATES. No. 550. December 2, 1895. This was a certificate from the United States circuit court of appeals for the Eighth circuit, which, omitting the formal parts, reads as follows: ‘First. At a regular term of the district court of the Second judicial district of […]

160 U.S. 1 16 S.Ct. 190 40 L.Ed. 319 UNITED STATESv.UNION PAC. RY. CO. et al. No. 334. November 18, 1895. [Syllabus from pages 1-3 intentionally omitted] Laurence Maxwell, Jr., Sol. Gen., for the United States. Rush Taggart and John F. Dillon, for appellees. Mr. Justice HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This […]