Category: 1896

162 U.S. 650 16 S.Ct. 934 40 L.Ed. 1105 WESTERN UNION TEL. CO.v.JAMES. No. 206. May 4, 1896. John F. Dillon, for plaintiff in error. Mr. Justice PECKHAM delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This action was brought by the defendant in error against the telegraph company to recover the amount of a penalty […]

162 U.S. 592 16 S.Ct. 900 40 L.Ed. 1082 SMITHv.STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. No. 710. April 13, 1896. The plaintiff in error, Charley Smith, was charged by indictment in the circuit court of Bolivar county, Miss., with having on the 14th day of May, 1894, in that county, willfully, feloniously, and of malice aforethought, killed and […]

162 U.S. 602 16 S.Ct. 875 40 L.Ed. 1086 FEEv.BROWN. No. 165. April 27, 1896. This was an action of ejectment, originally brought in the district court of Arapahoe county, Colo., by Jane C. Brown against the plaintiff in error, Fee, to recover a tract of land in Pueblo county, to which plaintiff claimed title […]

162 U.S. 512 16 S.Ct. 885 40 L.Ed. 1057 CENTRAL PAC. R. CO.v.STATE OF NEVADA. Nos. 170 and 171. April 20, 1896. This (No. 170) was an action originally begun in the district court of Lander county by the state of Nevada against the Central Pacific Railroad Company and its property within such county, as […]

162 U.S. 547 16 S.Ct. 890 40 L.Ed. 1069 HARWOODv.WENTWORTH. No. 756. April 13, 1896. This is a contest as to the right to exercise the functions of the office of county recorder of Cochise county, territory of Arizona. The defendant in error filed in the district court of the First judicial district of that […]

162 U.S. 565 16 S.Ct. 904 40 L.Ed. 1075 GIBSONv.STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. No. 711. April 13, 1896. [Syllabus from pages 565-567 intentionally omitted] The plaintiff in error was indicted in the circuit court of Washington county, Miss., for the crime of having, in that county, and on the 12th day of December, 1892, killed and […]

162 U.S. 499 16 S.Ct. 864 40 L.Ed. 1051 ALBERTYv.UNITED STATES. No. 853. April 20, 1896. Defendant, a Cherokee negro, who was known both by his father’s name of Burns, and that of his former master, Alberty, was convicted of the murder of one Phil Duncan, at the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory. The […]

162 U.S. 529 16 S.Ct. 879 40 L.Ed. 1062 GIRARD LIFE INSURANCE, ANNUITY & TRUST CO. et al.v.COOPER et al. No. 164. April 20, 1896. This was a petition by the firm of W. H. Cooper & Son, originally filed in the United States court for the Indian Territory, against Edwin D. Chadick and Francis […]

162 U.S. 439 16 S.Ct. 853 40 L.Ed. 1032 BLAGGE et al.v.BALCH. BROOKS et al. v. CODMAN et al. FOOTE et al. v. WOMEN’S BOARD OF MISSIONS et al. Nos. 177, 284, and 207. April 13, 1896. These are writs of error to review judgments of the supreme judicial court of Massachusetts in Nos. 177 […]

162 U.S. 466 16 S.Ct. 859 40 L.Ed. 1039 WALLACEv.UNITED STATES. No. 731. April 20, 1896. Jerry Wallace was convicted at the May term, 1895, of the district court of the United States for the district of Kansas, of the murder of Alexander Zane on March 7, 1895, at the Wyandotte Indian reservation, and sentenced […]

162 U.S. 478 16 S.Ct. 871 40 L.Ed. 1044 CAMPBELLv.PORTER et al. No. 137. April 20, 1896. This was a petition by the executors of the will of the late Admiral David D. Porter, who died February 13, 1891, to the special term of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, sitting as an […]

162 U.S. 490 16 S.Ct. 869 40 L.Ed. 1048 OREGON SHORT LINE & U. N. RY. CO.v.SKOTTOWE. No. 147. April 20, 1896. This was an action brought in the circuit court of the state of Oregon for Wasco county, by Jane Skottowe, against the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern Railway Company, for personal injuries […]

162 U.S. 425 16 S.Ct. 805 40 L.Ed. 1025 DASHIELLv.GROSVENOR et al. No. 569. April 13, 1896. This was a bill in equity by the appellees against Dashiell for the infringement of letters patent No. 425,584, issued April 15, 1890, to Samuel Seabury, a lieutenant in the United States navy, for an improvement in breech-loading […]

162 U.S. 435 16 S.Ct. 799 40 L.Ed. 1030 GRAVERv.FAUROT. No. 779. April 13, 1896. This case coming on to be heard on appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the Northern district of Illinois, in the United States circuit court of appeals for the Seventh circuit, that court ordered that a […]

162 U.S. 415 16 S.Ct. 803 40 L.Ed. 1022 BRYANv.BRASIUS et al. No. 200. April 13, 1896. In his lifetime on Jonathan M. Bryan, who was the owner of the 160 acres of land in controversy in this action, being the N. E. 1/4 of section 5, township 1 N., range 3 E., Gila and […]

162 U.S. 419 16 S.Ct. 804 40 L.Ed. 1023 BRYANv.PINNEY et al. No. 199. April 13, 1896. Wm. A. McKenney, for appellant. D. H. Pinney, for appellees. Mr. Justice SHIRAS delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This was an action of ejectment brought by T. J. Bryan in the district court of the Second […]

162 U.S. 420 16 S.Ct. 798 40 L.Ed. 1023 ANDREWSv.UNITED STATES. No. 532. April 13, 1896. This case is here upon a writ of error sued out of the district court of the United States for the Southern district of California, wherein the plaintiff in error was indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced for violation of […]

162 U.S. 411 16 S.Ct. 802 40 L.Ed. 1020 BRYANv.KALES. No. 198. April 13, 1896. This was an action of ejectment brought August 12, 1887, in the district court of the Second judicial district of the territory of Arizona, county of Maricopa, by T. J. Bryan against M. W. Kales, to recover possession of a […]

162 U.S. 366 16 S.Ct. 831 40 L.Ed. 1002 NORTHERN PAC. R. CO.v.LEWIS et al. No. 166. April 13, 1896. This action was brought by the defendants in error against the railroad company to recover damages for the destruction of some 10,000 cords of wood by fire communicated to the wood by sparks from the […]

162 U.S. 383 16 S.Ct. 814 40 L.Ed. 1009 McINTIREv.McINTIRE et al. No. 142. April 13, 1896. Wm. G. Johnson and Calderon Carlisle, for plaintiff in error. Enoch Totten, for defendants in error. Mr. Justice WHITE delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The question for our determination is whether the supreme court of the […]