Category: 1896

163 U.S. 244 16 S.Ct. 993 41 L.Ed. 145 UNITED STATESv.WINCHESTER & P. R. CO. No. 195. May 18, 1896. This appeal brings up for review a judgment in favor of the Winchester & Potomac Railroad Company, for the sum of $30,340, the value of certain iron rails removed in 1862 from the track of […]

163 U.S. 258 16 S.Ct. 998 41 L.Ed. 151 UNITED STATESv.LAWS. No. 248. May 18, 1896. Sol. Gen. Conrad, for the United States. Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., for defendant in error. Mr. Justice PECKHAM delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This case comes here upon a certificate from the United States circuit court of appeals […]

163 U.S. 269 16 S.Ct. 967 41 L.Ed. 155 EDWARDSv.BATES COUNTY. No. 259. May 18, 1896. Action by James C. Edwards against Bates county, impleaded in behalf of Mt. Pleasant township. A judgment sustaining a plea to the jurisdiction was affirmed, and plaintiff brings error. Reversed. On October 5, 1891, plaintiff in error filed his […]

163 U.S. 169 16 S.Ct. 1002 41 L.Ed. 118 SINGER MANUF’G CO.v.JUNE MANUF’G CO. No. 6. May 18, 1896. The Singer Manufacturing Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of New Jersey, filed its bill in equity in the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of Illinois against […]

163 U.S. 155 16 S.Ct. 961 41 L.Ed. 111 WEBSTER et al.v.DALY. No. 265. May 18, 1896. A. J. Dittenhoefer, for appellants. Stephen H. Olin, for appellee. Mr. Chief Justice FULLER delivered the opinion of the court. 1 Daly filed his bill in the circuit court of the United States against George P. Webster and […]

163 U.S. 160 16 S.Ct. 971 41 L.Ed. 113 PEREGOv.DODGE et al. No. 273. May 18, 1896. Action by William Perego against W. H. Dodge, E. P. Ferry, A. B. Richardson, J. N. Jacobson, Martin McGrath, and Mrs. Martin McGrath. From a judgment of the territorial supreme court affirming a judgment for defendants (33 Pac. […]

163 U.S. 205 16 S.Ct. 1016 41 L.Ed. 131 SINGER MANUF’G CO.v.BENT. No. 7. May 18, 1896. Lawrence Maxwell, Jr., and Charles K. Offield, for appellant. Wallace Heckman, for appellee. Mr. Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The pleadings here are substantially similar to those in the case of the Singer Manufacturing […]

163 U.S. 118 16 S.Ct. 1042 41 L.Ed. 93 BARNITZv.BEVERLY. No. 863. May 18, 1896. On November 1, 1885, George A. Kirtland executed to Martha Barnitz several promissory notes, covering a principal debt of $1,500 and interest, payable semiannually for five years, at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum, and after maturity at […]

163 U.S. 132 16 S.Ct. 983 41 L.Ed. 101 UNITED STATESv.RIDER et al. No. 197. May 18, 1896. On the 23d day of November, A. D. 1891, the United States district att rney for the Southern district of Ohio filed a criminal information in the circuit court of the United States for that district, against […]

163 U.S. 140 16 S.Ct. 961 41 L.Ed. 104 HARRISONv.UNITED STATES. No. 294. May 18, 1896. Richard B. Kelly, for plaintiff in error. Asst. Atty. Gen. Dickinson, for the United States. Mr. Chief Justice FULLER delivered the opinion of the court. 1 As stated by counsel for the United States, plaintiff in error was convicted […]

163 U.S. 142 16 S.Ct. 1096 41 L.Ed. 107 ILLINOIS CENT. R. CO.v.STATE OF ILLINOIS ex rel. BUTLER. No. 217. May 18, 1896. Petition by the state of Illinois, on the relation of W. N. Butler, against the Illinois Central Railroad Company for a writ of mandamus. A decree for petitioner was affirmed by the […]

163 U.S. 109 16 S.Ct. 1036 41 L.Ed. 90 SALINA STOCK CO. et al.v.SALINA CREEK IRRIGATION CO. No. 191. May 18, 1896. The Salina Creek Irrigation Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the territory of Utah for the purpose of controlling and regulating the waters of Salina creek, in that territory, and of […]

163 U.S. 1 16 S.Ct. 1054 41 L.Ed. 49 WESTERN UNION TEL. CO.v.TAGGART, Auditor, et al. No. 662. May 18, 1896. Page 2 This was a bill in equity, filed December 19, 1893, in the circuit court of the county of Marion, and state of Indiana, by the Western Union Telegraph Company against Thomas Taggart, […]

163 U.S. 100 16 S.Ct. 1017 41 L.Ed. 87 TELFENERv.RUSS. No. 462. May 18, 1896. Mr. Justice FIELD delivered the opinion of the court. 1 It is firmly established that the state of Texas cannot, in opposition to its wishes, be compelled to accept an office survey constructed by merely copying and adopting the field […]

163 U.S. 101 16 S.Ct. 990 41 L.Ed. 87 MURRAYv.STATE OF LOUISIANA. No. 718. May 18, 1896. In October, 1894, in the criminal district court for the parish of Orleans, state of Louisiana an indictment for murder was found against one Jim Murray, alias Greasy Jim. On December 13, 1894, the accused was arraigned, pleaded […]

162 U.S. 91 16 S.Ct. 766 40 L.Ed. 903 CENTRAL PAC. R. CO.v.PEOPLE OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA. No. 559. March 16, 1896. 1 This was an action brought in the name of the people of the state of California against the Central Pacific Railroad Company in the superior court of the city and county of […]

162 U.S. 664 16 S.Ct. 943 40 L.Ed. 1109 COFFINv.UNITED STATES. No. 801. May 4, 1896. W. H. H. Miller and F. Winter, for plaintiff in error. Sol. Gen. Conrad, for the United States. Mr. Justice WHITE, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court. 1 Fifty-two requests for instructions were submitted on […]

162 U.S. 687 16 S.Ct. 923 40 L.Ed. 1118 PUTNAMv.UNITED STATES. Nos. 573, 574. May 4, 1896. Frank S. Streeter, for plaintiff in error. Sol. Gen. Conrad, for the United States. Mr. Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This is a writ of error to obtain a reversal, of a judgment of […]

162 U.S. 613 16 S.Ct. 895 40 L.Ed. 1090 WILSONv.UNITED STATES. No. 884. April 27, 1896. Wilson was convicted of the murder of one Thatch, both being white men and not Indians, on May 15, 1895, at the Creek Nation in the Indian country, and sentenced to be hanged. There was evidence tending to show […]

162 U.S. 625 16 S.Ct. 952 40 L.Ed. 1097 CRAINv.UNITED STATES. No. 557. April 20, 1896. This writ of error brings up for review a judgment in the district court of the United States for the Western district of Arkansas, by which the plaintiff in error was sentenced to imprisonment in the house of correction […]