11 U.S. 548 7 Cranch 548 3 L. Ed. 435 YOUNG v. CRUNDY. March 13, 1813 THIS was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, sitting in Alexandria, as a Court of Equity. Young brought a bill in equity against Grundy to be relieved from a judgment at law, obtained by Grundy against him on a promissory note given by him in Virginia, to one William Chambers from whom it passed, by several intermediate indorsements, to Grundy. It was given in 1795 for part of the...
11 U.S. 565 (1813) 7 Cranch 565 YOUNG AND AL v. BLACK. Supreme Court of United States. March 12, 1813. March 16, 1813. *566 E.I. LEE, for the Plaintiffs in error. SWANN, contra. STORY, J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: The present action was brought by the Plaintiffs in error as joint owners of the brig Active and cargo to compel the Defendant who was master of the said brig to account for the proceeds of said cargo, which was sold during a voyage to the West Indies. Young owned...
11 U.S. 423 7 Cranch 423 3 L. Ed. 392 WILLIAM WILLIAMS AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS, v. GEORGE ARMROYD AND OTHERS, APPELLEES. February 25, 1813 1 Absent , TODD, J. 2 THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court for the district of Pennsylvania, which dismissed the libel with costs. 3 The libel stated, that the schooner Fortitude , owned by Williams and others, citizens of the United States, having taken in a cargo of molasses at Martinico, sailed on the 20th of August, 1809, for New...
11 U.S. 399 (1813) 7 Cranch 399 WEBSTER AND FORD v. HOBAN. Supreme Court of United States. February 24, 1813. March 3, 1813. Present ... . All the Judges except TODD, J. *400 JONES, for the Plaintiffs in error. *401 LIVINGSTON, J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: If there ever existed a valid agreement between these parties in relation to the house in question, on which the Court gives no opinion, the terms of it must be sought for in the articles exhibited by the auctioneer, at...
11 U.S. 602 7 Cranch 602 3 L. Ed. 452 WALLEN v. WILLIAMS. March 17, 1813 1 Absent LIVINGSTON, TODD, and STORY, J. 2 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of East Tennessee, in a suit in equity, in which Joseph Williams on the 15th of November, 1799, brought his hill of complaint against Elisha Wallen and John Williams, whereby he stated that the Defendants and others in the year 1779 entered into a co-partnership in the entering of lands in the land office for the sale of lands in that...
11 U.S. 572 (1813) 7 Cranch 572 THE UNITED STATES v. JANUARY AND PATTERSON. Supreme Court of United States. March 16, 1813. Absent ... . TODD, J. DUVALL, J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: In this cause the opinion of the Court is required on a single point. The facts are these: The supervisor of the revenue, for the district of Ohio, in due form of law appointed John Arthur collector *573 of the revenue for the first division of the first survey of the said district. Arthur, on...
11 U.S. 596 (1813) 7 Cranch 596 THORNTON v. CARSON Supreme Court of United States. February 23, 1813. Absent ... . TODD, J. *598 The case was submitted without argument, MORSELL, *599 for the Defendant in error. WASHINGTON, J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: This is a writ of error to a judgment of the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia. Under a rule which was served upon the Plaintiff in error to show cause, during the term at which the rule was made, why judgment should...
11 U.S. 575 7 Cranch 575 3 L. Ed. 444 THE UNITED STATES v. PATTERSON. March 16, 1813 Absent . TODD, J. THIS was also a writ of error to the Circuit Court, for the district of Kentucky. The case was submitted without argument, and DUVALL, J. delivered the opinion of the Court, as follows: This case has been considered in connexion with that against January & Patterson. 1 A suit was instituted on the bond dated 23d March, 1799, against Arthur & Patterson; and pending the suit Arthur died. The...
11 U.S. 287 7 Cranch 287 3 L. Ed. 347 THE UNITED STATES v. GORDON AND OTHERS. February 10, 1813 Absent . LIVINGSTON, J. and TODD, J. THIS was an action of debt brought in the District Court of the United States for the district of Virginia, upon an embargo-bond , dated the 2d of November, 1808, conditioned to reland the cargo of the Essex, in some port of the United States, the danger of the seas only excepted. The Defendants, among other things, pleaded the following plea, viz.; 'And the said...
11 U.S. 363 7 Cranch 363 3 L. Ed. 372 THE SCHOONER JANE v. THE UNITED STATES. February 17, 1813 Present. All the Judges except TODD, J. 1 THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland, reversing that of the District Court, which condemned the schooner Jane for violation of the non-intercourse act. 2 NICHOLSON, for Appellant , 3 Contended that there ought to have been positive proof of the identity of the vessel. 4 PINKNEY, Attorney General . 5 If these...
11 U.S. 349 7 Cranch 349 3 L. Ed. 367 THE SCHOONER GOOD CATHARINE v. THE UNITED STATES. February 19, 1813 1 Absent . LIVINGSTON, J. and TODD, J. 2 THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland, which condemned the schooner Good Catharine as a foreign vessel for a violation of the 5th section of the act of January 9th, 1808, supplementary to the embargo act, vol. 9, p. 13, which declares 'that if any foreign ship or vessel shall take on board any specie,...
11 U.S. 396 7 Cranch 396 3 L. Ed. 383 THE MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY v. KORN AND WISEMILLER. February 16, 1813 Absent . WASHINGTON, J. ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Columbia, sitting at Alexandria. The Mutual Assurance Society against free, &c. was incorporated by an act of the legislature of Virginia in 1795. According to the original plan of the institution the houses in the towns and country were blended together in one general mass, and were mutually pledged to each other, to...
11 U.S. 402 7 Cranch 402 3 L. Ed. 385 THE MARYLAND INSURANCE COMPANY. v. WOOD. March 3, 1813 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland, in an action of covenant on a policy upon the schooner William and Mary 'at and from Baltimore to Laguira, with liberty of one other neighboring port, and at and from them or either of them back to Baltimore'—'Warranted by the assured to be an American bottom, proof of which to be required in the United States only.' The former judgment of the...
11 U.S. 382 7 Cranch 382 3 L. Ed. 378 THE CARGO OF THE BRIG AURORA, BURN SIDE, CLAIMANT, v. THE UNITED STATES. February 23, 1813 Present. All the Judges except TODD, J. 1 THIS was an appeal from the sentence of the district Court for the district of Orleans, condemning the cargo of the brig Aurora, for having been imported from Great Britain, in violation of the 4th and 5th sections of the non-intercourse act of March 1 st , 1809, vol. 9, p. 243, which it was contended were in force against...
11 U.S. 420 7 Cranch 420 3 L. Ed. 391 STARK v. THE CHESAPEAKE INSURANCE COMPANY. March 8, 1813 Absent . WASHINGTON, J. TODD, J. & DUVALL, J. 1 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland, in an action of covenant upon a policy of assurance, in which the goods insured were warranted to be American property , 'proof of which to be required in 'the United States only.' A loss by capture having taken place, the Plaintiff offered an abandonment which was refused, wherefore he brought...
11 U.S. 434 (1813) 7 Cranch 434 SMITH AND BUCHANAN v. THE DELAWARE INSURANCE COMPANY. Supreme Court of United States. March 9, 1813. Absent ... . WASHINGTON, J. and TODD, J. *435 PINKNEY, Attorney General, for Plaintiffs in error. HARPER, contra. MARSHALL, Ch. J. The case is too plain for argument. The jury did not intend to find a general verdict; but to submit the points of law to the Court. If the law had been for the Plaintiffs the Court could only have awarded a venire de novo. The facts...
11 U.S. 434 7 Cranch 434 3 L. Ed. 396 SMITH AND BUCHANAN v. THE DELAWARE INSURANCE COMPANY. March 9, 1813 1 Absent . WASHINGTON, J. and TODD, J. 2 ERROR to the Circuit Court for the district of Maryland, in an action of covenant on a policy of insurance. 3 The jury found a verdict ' for the Defendants, subject to the opinion of the Court on the points reserved .' And judgment was thereupon rendered ' for the Defendants accordingly .' 4 The Plaintiffs, by their counsel, moved the Court below...
11 U.S. 389 (1813) 7 Cranch 389 THE SCHOONER HOPPET AND CARGO v. THE UNITED STATES. Supreme Court of United States. February 19, 1813. February 27, 1813. Absent ... . LIVINGSTON, J. and TODD, J. *390 HARPER, for the Appellants. *391 PINKNEY, Attorney General, and LAW, contra. MARSHALL, Ch. J. delivered the opinion of the Court as follows: This is an appeal from a sentence of the Court for the district of Orleans condemning the schooner Hoppet and her cargo, as forfeited to the United States for...
11 U.S. 570 (1813) 7 Cranch 570 THE SCHOCNER ANNE v. THE UNITED STATES. Supreme Court of United States. March 11, 1813. March 16, 1813. Absent ... . TODD, J. C. LEE, for the Appellant. JONES, Contra. *572 MARSHALL, Ch. J. The sentence of the Circuit Court, in this case must be reversed for the defects in the libel, for the reasons stated in the case of the Hoppet. Sentence reversed, and the cause remanded with leave to amend the libel.
11 U.S. 500 (1813) 7 Cranch 500 RIGGS v. LINDSAY. Supreme Court of United States. March 9, 1813. Absent ... . TODD, J. The case was now argued by JONES and HARPER, for the Plaintiff in error; and by F.S. KEY and MORSELL, for the Defendant. *501 The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the Court, which was delivered as follows, by LIVINGSTON, J. This was an action brought by the Defendant in error, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Columbia, against William...
