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Lessee of Lanning vs. Moses Dolph, Samuel Ferris, and John Ferris

Case Year
1826
Court Case Term
State
Court Case Type

“This ejectment was to recover four hundred and thirty acres of land in Luzerne county, surveyed in the name of David Brown. It is one of the sixteen surveys mentioned in the case of Lanning vs. London, &.c. ante, 159; and the same, or nearly the same evidence was given in both cases . . . Upon the trial of this case, the plaintiff' offered in evidence the sheriff’s deed of the 6th of May 1802, for one third of Eddy’s interest in the land conveyed by Thomas to Eddy and Hollenback, to Samuel W.

Benjamin and Halsted Haight vs. The Proprietors of the Morris Aqueduct

Case Year
1826
Court Case Term
State
Court Case Type

“The bill-states the plaintiffs to have been, since the 10th of April 1821, owners of a grist mill, situated on a branch of the Speedwell river, in Morris county, New Jersey, which, with the pond, the waters flowing into it, and all other appurtenances, they purchased on that day, at a sale thereof made by the administrator of Ural Tuttle, under an order of the orphan’s court, and received a regular conveyance therefor.

United States vs. Samuel Hoar, Jr. Administrator, in Error

Case Year
1821
Court Case Term
Court Case Type

“This was a writ of error from the judgment of the District Court. The original action was assumpsit for money bad and received, brought by the United States against the defendant in error, as administrator of the estate of Col. John L. Tuttle, deceased. The defendant pleaded, 1. The general statute of limitations of Massachusetts, (substantially like the statute of 21 Jac. ch. 16, § 3,) to personal actions; 2. the statute of Massachusetts, limiting suits against executors and administrators to four years after the acceptance of the trust; 3.

The Schooner Fame, B. Adams et al. Claimants

Case Year
1822
Court Case Term
State
Court Case Type

“Libel on information of seizure for a violation of the Coasting Act of 1793, ch. 8, and the Revenue Act of 1799, ch. 128. At the trial at October Term, 1821, the acts of illicit trade being proved to be in Passamaquoddy Bay, the principal question was, whether they were done within the territorial limits of the United States, or within the British waters.

Martin vs. Bank of the United States

Case Year
1821
Court Case Term
State
Court Case Type

“Case agreed. On the 11th of December 1820, the plaintiff owned and possessed sundry promissory notes called bank notes, drawn and signed in due form by and on behalf of the defendants, whereby they promised to pay to different persons, or bearer, on demand, the several sums mentioned in the said notes, which were of the description following : one note, letter A, No. 583, for $100, payable to Benjamin Morgan or bearer; fifteen notes for $20 each, payable in like manner, and of the following letters and numbers, viz. H, 1492, G, 1489, &c.

Trask and Davis vs. Duvall

Case Year
1821
Court Case Term
State
Court Case Type

“This was an action to recover the freight due for the carriage of a parcel of hides, from Maldonado to Philadelphia, shipped at that port, and deliverable as per bills of lading to A. Curcier of Philadelphia, or to his assigns, he or they paying freight. The declaration contains two sets of counts. One upon a special promise made by the defendant to Mr Von Lengerke, the agent of the plaintiffs, in the following terms: ‘as soon as you shall have adjusted the freight with A. Curcier, I will pay you, if he does not.’ 2.

Isaacs vs. Cooper et al.

Case Year
1821
Court Case Term
State
Court Case Type

“This case comes before the court upon a motion for an injunction. The plaintiff, by his bill, claims to be the proprietor of ‘an improvement on the horizontal circular plane or wheel, invented by him, for the purpose of gaining power by, applying animal weight to the propelling of boats on water, or to machinery on land;’ which, the bill charges, was secured to him by a patent dated the 17th of November 1819, and that the specification was filed in the patent office on the 13th of April 1818.

Read vs. Consequa, October Term, 1822

Case Year
1822
Court Case Term
State
Court Case Type

“This case came on upon cross motions to take the bill for confessed for want of an answer, and to dissolve the injunction. The defendant grounded his motion upon an answer sworn to by the defendant at Canton, in April last. It was objected to as an answer properly verified by oath, the only evidence of that fact being the certificate of three persons, witnesses to the signature of the defendant, who swore that they saw the defendant sign the same, and that he swore to the answer according to the laws of China.”

Den ex Dem. Jacob Ridgeway vs. Jacob G. Underwood

Case Year
1821
Court Case Term
State
Court Case Type

“This was an ejectment brought to recover a tract of land called the lower or Griffith farm, containing one hundred and seventy-seven acres; and the cause came before the court for judgment, upon a case agreed, with liberty to either party to turn it into a special verdict.

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