11 U.S. 271 (1812) 7 Cranch 271 HEZEKIAH WOOD v. JOHN DAVIS AND OTHERS. Supreme Court of United States. March 9, 1812. March 10, 1812. Present ... . All the Judges. F.S. KEY, for the Plaintiff in error. C. LEE, contra. All the Judges being present. *273 MARSHALL, Ch. J. Stated that the opinion of the Court to be, that the verdict and judgment in the case of Susan Davis against Swann, were not conclusive evidence in the present case. There was no privity between Swann and Wood; they were to be...
11 U.S. 276 (1812) 7 Cranch 276 WISE & LYNN v. THE COLUMBIAN TURNPIKE COMPANY. Supreme Court of United States. March 9, 1812. March 14, 1812. Present ... . All the Judges. Upon the return of the rule, it appearing that the sum awarded was only 45 dollars, the COURT, all the Judges being present, decided that they had no jurisdiction, although the sum claimed by Wise & Lynn, before the commissioners of the road, was more than 100 dollars. Writ of error dismissed.
11 U.S. 202 7 Cranch 202 3 L. Ed. 315 WILSON v. KOONTZ. March 6, 1812 1 Present. All the Judges . 2 THIS was an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia, which dismissed the Complainant's bill in equity. 3 Wilson filed a bill in equity, in the nature of an attachment in chancery, against Koontz, surviving partner of Koontz and Ober, as principal debtor, and Thomas Irvine and Joseph Mandeville as garnishees. It stated that Koontz, a resident of Virginia, as...
11 U.S. 112 7 Cranch 112 3 L. Ed. 286 WHELAN v. THE UNITED STATES. February 20, 1812 1 THIS cause standing so late on the docket that it was not likely to be called for trial at this term, DALLAS, for the United States, suggested the propriety of assigning a particular day for the hearing, as it was a case of importance, and involved a question of jurisdiction, viz: whether a seizure of a vessel, on waters navigable from the sea for vessels of ten and more tons burthen, for breach of a law of...
11 U.S. 152 7 Cranch 152 3 L. Ed. 299 WELCH v. MANDEVILLE. March 2, 1812 1 Present. All the judges . 2 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia, sitting at Alexandria. 3 An action of covenant was brought in that Court, in the name of James Welsh, the Plaintiff, but really for the use and by the sole orders of Allen Prior, against Mandeville and Jameson, upon a contract for the sale of land to them by Welch. At the second term after an office judgment had been entered against...
11 U.S. 159 7 Cranch 159 3 L. Ed. 301 WELCH v. LINDO. March 2, 1812 1 Present. All the Judges . 2 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, sitting at Alexandria. 3 Welch brought an action of assumpsit against Lindo, upon his indorsement of a promisory note. The declaration contained two counts. The 1st count stated, that one John Kercheval , on the 25th of August, 1796, made and delivered a promisory note to Lindo, payable to his order on demand, for 246 dollars, for valued...
11 U.S. 278 (1812) 7 Cranch 278 WALLEN v. WILLIAMS. Supreme Court of United States. March 13, 1812. Present ... . All the Judges. JONES, for the Plaintiff in error. P.B. KEY, contra. *279 TODD, J. The attachment to compel a performance of the decree was unavailing; and upon the return of it, the habere facias was issued in conformity with the practice in that state, as admitted by the counsel on both sides in the Court below. It was ordered as a matter of course, and no objection was made. If...
11 U.S. 285 (1812) 7 Cranch 285 UNITED STATES v. JOHN TYLER. Supreme Court of United States. LIVINGSTON, J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: The Defendant was indicted under the act to enforce the embargo laws passed the 9th January, 1809, for loading on carriages, within the district of Vermont, nineteen barrels of pearl-ashes, with intent to transport the same without the United States: to wit, into the province of Canada. On a plea of not guilty, the jury returned the following...
11 U.S. 108 (1812) 7 Cranch 108 THE UNITED STATES v. JOHN GOODWIN. Supreme Court of United States. *109 WASHINGTON, J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: This case stands upon a writ of error to the Circuit Court, for the District of Pennsylvania. By the record, it appears, that an action of debt was brought, in the name of the United States, against the Defendant in error, in the District Court of Pennsylvania; in which judgment was rendered for the United States. On a writ of...
11 U.S. 115 (1812) 7 Cranch 115 THE UNITED STATES v. JONAH CROSBY. Supreme Court of United States. February 24, 1812. STORY, Justice, on the 24th of February, all the judges being present. A writ of intrusion was brought by the United States against the Defendant in error to recover possession of an undivided part of certain land lying within the district of Maine. Upon the trial of the cause in the district Court of that district, a special verdict was found by the jury, upon which the same...
11 U.S. 113 7 Cranch 113 3 L. Ed. 286 THE UNITED STATES v. THE BRIG ELIZA. February 22, 1812 1 Present. all the judges . 2 THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court for the district of Delaware, which affirmed that of the district Court which dismissed the libel, and ordered the vessel to be restored. She had been seized by the collector of the district of Delaware, for having pro- 'ceeded to a foreign port or place,' (viz: to Havanna) contrary to the 3 d section of the act of...
11 U.S. 32 7 Cranch 32 3 L. Ed. 259 THE UNITED STATES v. HUDSON AND GOODWIN February 13, 1812 Absent. Washington, justice . THIS was a case certified from the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut , in which, upon argument of a general demurrer to an indictment for a libel on the President and Congress of the United States, contained in the Connecticut Currant , of the 7th of May, 1806, charging them with having in secret voted two millions of dollars as a present to Bonaparte for leave...
11 U.S. 100 (1812) 7 Cranch 100 THE SLOOP ACTIVE v. THE UNITED STATES. Supreme Court of United States. February 19, 1812. February 26, 1812. Present ... . . All the judges. *101 PITKIN and DANA, for the Appellants. DALLAS, Attorney of the United States for the District of Pennsylvania, and PINKNEY, Attorney General of the United States for Appellees. *105 MARSHALL, Chief Justice, delivered the opinion of the court as follows: [*] The sloop Active, a vessel licensed for the fishing trade, was...
11 U.S. 34 (1812) 7 Cranch 34 ALEXANDER SHIRRAS, JOHN BLACK, WILLIAM MILLIGAN, WILLIAM BLACKLOCK, & JOSEPH VERREES, v. JOHN CAIG & ROBERT MITCHEL. Supreme Court of United States. February 13, 1812. February 17, 1812. Absent ... . Washington, justice. *42 C. LEE, for Plaintiffs in error. [*] HARPER Contra. All the Judges (except Washington, J. [*] ) being present. *46 MARSHALL, Ch. J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: This is an appeal from a decree rendered by the Circuit Court for...
11 U.S. 208 7 Cranch 208 3 L. Ed. 317 SHEEHY v. MANDEVILLE. March 6, 1812 1 Present. All the Judges . 2 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia sitting at Alexandria. 3 This cause having been sent back to the Circuit Court, by the mandate of this Court, at February term 1810, commanding that Court to render judgment for the Plaintiff on his first count and to award a writ of enquiry of damages, upon executing that writ of enquiry the Plaintiff produced the following note. 4 '...
11 U.S. 52 (1812) 7 Cranch 52 SCHOONER PAULINA'S CARGO v. THE UNITED STATES. Supreme Court of United States. February 15, 1812. February 21, 1812. Absent ... . Washington, justice. *55 PITKIN, for the Plaintiff in Error. DALLAS, Attorney of the United States for the District of Pennsylvania, contra. All the judges being present. *60 MARSHALL, CHIEF JUSTICE, delivered the opinion of the court as follows: The libel in this case, as amended in the Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island,...
11 U.S. 116 (1812) 7 Cranch 116 THE SCHOONER EXCHANGE v. M`FADDON & OTHERS. Supreme Court of United States . February 24, 1812. March 3, 1812. Present ... . . All the judges. *120 DALLAS, Attorney of the United States, for the district of Pennsylvania. HARPER, for the Appellees. HARE, contra. All the Judges being present. *135 MARSHALL, Ch. J. Delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: This case involves the very delicate and important inquiry, whether an American citizen can assert, in an...
11 U.S. 99 (1812) 7 Cranch 99 SCHOONER CATHERINE v. THE U. STATES. Supreme Court of United States. February 13, 1812. Absent ... . Washington, justice. THIS case was dismissed because the counsel for the Appellant had not furnished the Court with a statement of the points of the case, agreeably to the general rule on that subject. It was afterwards reinstated by consent of parties.
11 U.S. 69 (1812) 7 Cranch 69 NATHANIEL RUSSELL v. JOHN I. CLARK'S EXECUTORS, AND OTHERS. Supreme Court of United States. February 17, 1812. March 5, 1812. Absent ... . Washington, justice. *77 DEXTER, for the Plaintiff in Error. *81 C. LEE, contra. All the judges being present. *89 MARSHALL, ch. justice, delivered the following opinion. This is a suit in Chancery instituted for the purpose of obtaining from the Defendants, payment of certain bills of exchange drawn by Jonathan Russell, an...
11 U.S. 206 (1812) 7 Cranch 206 RIDDLE v. MOSS. Supreme Court of United States. March 6, 1812. March 10, 1812. Present ... . All the Judges. E.I. LEE and JONES, for the Plaintiff in error. C. LEE, contra. All the Judges being present. *207 MARSHALL, Ch. J. delivered the opinion of the Court to the following effect. The Court is of opinion that Welch, the co-obligor, was interested, and was therefore an incompetent witness. *208 It was a consideration of some importance that he had given Moss a...
