Category: 1896

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 […]

162 U.S. 399 16 S.Ct. 837 40 L.Ed. 1015 PALMER et al.v.BARRETT. No. 194. April 13, 1896. This is a writ of error to the city court of Brooklyn, an inferior court of the state of New York. The action was brought to recover damages for an alleged unlawful ouster of the plaintiff from the […]

162 U.S. 404 16 S.Ct. 808 40 L.Ed. 1017 KELSEY et al.v.CROWTHER et al. No. 74. April 13, 1896. Lewis P. Kelsey and James K. Gillespie filed their second amended complaint in this case in the district court of the Third district of the territory of Utah, December 13, 1888, against William J. Crowther, John […]

162 U.S. 339 16 S.Ct. 850 40 L.Ed. 991 GREAT WESTERN TEL. CO.v.BURNHAM et al. No. 159. April 13, 1896. This was an action similar to that of Telegraph Co. v. Purdy, 16 Sup. Ct. 810, and was brought October 8, 1888, in the circuit court of Milwaukee county, in the state of Wisconsin, by […]

162 U.S. 346 16 S.Ct. 843 40 L.Ed. 994 NORTHERN PAC. R. CO.v.PETERSON. No. 153. April 13, 1896. This action was commenced by the plaintiff below (defendant in error) in the United States circuit court for the district of Minnesota, Fourth division, to recover damages against the defendant alleged to have been sustained on account […]

162 U.S. 359 16 S.Ct. 848 40 L.Ed. 999 NORTHERN PAC. R. CO.v.CHARLESS. No. 184. April 13, 1896. C. W. Bunn, for plaintiff in error. Reese H. Voorhees, for defendant in error. Mr. Justice PECKHAM delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The plaintiff below was an ordinary day laborer, employed, under a section boss […]

162 U.S. 313 16 S.Ct. 839 40 L.Ed. 980 STEVENSONv.UNITED STATES. No. 681. April 13, 1896. Fred Beall, for plaintiff in error. Asst. Atty. Gen. Dickinson, for the United States. Mr. Justice PECKHAM delivered the opinion of the court. 1 The plaintiff in error was indicted in the United States circuit court for the Eastern […]

162 U.S. 324 16 S.Ct. 801 40 L.Ed. 984 UNITED STATESv.JULIAN. No. 925. April 13, 1896. This was a petition for fees as commissioner of the circuit court for the Middle district of Tennessee. The claim included a large number of items, but the only point in controversy before this court is whether petitioner was […]

162 U.S. 326 16 S.Ct. 795 40 L.Ed. 985 HOLLANDER et al.v.FECHHEIMER et al. No. 146. April 13, 1896. This was a bill in equity, filed by the firm of Fechheimer, Goodkind & Co., against Justus Hollander, a judgment debtor, Samuel Bieber, his assignee, and a number of preferred creditors under such assignment, alleging that […]

162 U.S. 329 16 S.Ct. 810 40 L.Ed. 986 GREAT WESTERN TEL. CO.v.PURDY. No. 105. April 13, 1896. This was an action brought August 30, 1888, in the district court of Des Moines county, in the state of Iowa, by the Great Western Telegraph Company, a corporation of Illinois, by its receiver, Elias R. Bowen, […]

162 U.S. 291 16 S.Ct. 820 40 L.Ed. 973 WOODRUFF et al.v.STATE OF MISSISSIPPI et al. No. 13. April 13, 1896. Plaintiffs filed their bill in the chancery court of Hinds county, Miss., to enforce a trust and lien upon certain lands created in their favor as holders of bonds of the levee board of […]

162 U.S. 197 16 S.Ct. 666 40 L.Ed. 940 TEXAS & P. RY. CO.v.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. No. 321. March 30, 1896. [Syllabus from pages 197-199 intentionally omitted] This is an appeal from a decree of the United States circuit court of appeals for the Second circuit (6 C. C. A. 653, 57 Fed. 948), affirming […]

162 U.S. 255 16 S.Ct. 754 40 L.Ed. 960 STANLEY et al.v.SCHWALBY et al. No. 653. March 23, 1896. [Syllabus from pages 255-257 intentionally omitted] This was an action of trespass to try title, brought in the district court of Bexar county, in the state of Texas, by Mary U. Schwalby, joining her husband, J. […]

162 U.S. 283 16 S.Ct. 828 40 L.Ed. 970 SENECA NATION OF INDIANSv.CHRISTY. No. 180. April 13, 1896. James C. Strong, for plaintiff in error. Morris Morey, for defendant in error. Mr. Chief Justice FULLER delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This was an action of ejectment brought by the Seneca Nation of Indians […]

162 U.S. 290 16 S.Ct. 796 40 L.Ed. 972 DAVIS et al.v.GEISSLER et al. No. 185. April 13, 1896. D. P. Stubbs, for plaintiffs in error. E. A. McMath, for defendants in error. Mr. Chief Justice FULLER delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This was an action brought by plaintiffs in error, citizens of […]

162 U.S. 1 16 S.Ct. 725 40 L.Ed. 867 UNITED STATESv.STATE OF TEXAS. No. 3, Original. March 16, 1896. [Syllabus from pages 1-3 intentionally omitted] Attorney General Harmon, Sol. Gen. Conrad, and Edgar Allan, for complainant. George Clark, M. M. Crane, and A. H. Garland, for defendant. [Argument of Counsel from pages 3-20 intentionally omitted] […]

162 U.S. 167 16 S.Ct. 794 40 L.Ed. 929 SOUTHERN PAC. R. CO.v.PEOPLE OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA. No. 560. March 16, 1896. J. Hubley Ashton, for plaintiff in error. J. P. Langhorne and J. H. Miller, for the People of State of California. Mr. Chief Justice FULLER delivered the opinion of the court. 1 This […]

162 U.S. 170 16 S.Ct. 695 40 L.Ed. 930 TELFENERv.RUSS.1 No. 462. March 30, 1896. This case comes up on a writ of certiorari, issued to the United States circuit court of appeals for the Fifth circuit. The action was brought for damages for an alleged breach of a contract for the sale, by the […]

162 U.S. 184 16 S.Ct. 700 40 L.Ed. 935 CINCINNATI, N. O. & T. P. RY. CO. et al.v.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION v. CINCINNATI. N. O. & T. P. RY. CO. et al. Nos. 394 and 473. March 30, 1896. On October 18, 1889, the James & Mayer Buggy Company, a corporation of […]

161 U.S. 96 16 S.Ct. 506 40 L.Ed. 630 FISHBACK et al.v.WESTERN UNION TEL. CO. No. 341. March 2, 1896. This was a bill filed by the Western Union Telegraph Company January 2, 1894, in the circuit court of the United States for the Eastern district of Arkansas, against William M. Fishback, Henry B. Armistead, […]