“This case comes by appeal from the district court, where a pro forma decree, dismissing the libel, was given. The libel states that on the 24th of January last, the libellants, whilst in their oyster boats in the mouth of Back creek, in Delaware bay, saw the brig Dodge Healy drifting down the bay in a solid cake of ice, of about four acres in extent, from Cohanzey cove, about ten miles higher up the bay.

“The only question in the case is, whether Mary Dickenson took an estate in fee, or only a life estate in the land which is the subject of this suit? If the former, judgment must be given for the defendant; if the latter, then for the plaintiff.

“The defendant was tried by the same jury upon two indictments. One was for an assault committed at sea by defendant, master of the ship, on his mate, with intent to kill. The other for maliciously, and without justifiable cause, forcing the mate of his ship on shore at Batavia, a foreign port; and leaving him there.”

“This is a bill in equity brought by some of the next of kin of Oliver Barnet, according to the statute of distributions of the state of New Jersey, against the administrator of Elizabeth Barnes, the executrix of the said Oliver Barnet, appointed by the orphan’s court of this state, pending a controversy in that court concerning the validity of the asserted will of the said Elizabeth, and the rest of the next of kin of Oliver, the testator.

“This is a bill brought by a citizen of New Jersey against certain individuals, citizens of this state, and an incorporated society under the name of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company, praying a discovery and relief against each. To this bill, the defendants put in a joint and several plea to the jurisdiction of the court, alleging that four persons, naming them, members and corporators of the said company, were, at the time of filing the bill, and of issuing the subpoena, and now are, citizens of the state of New Jersey, and residing therein.

“This is an action of replevin for seventy-three casks of Teneriffe wine, of the value of $2168. 10 cents. The jury found a verdict(a) for the plaintiff, subject to the opinion of the court, upon the following case: On the 1st of June 1825, Beylle &. Co. merchants of Philadelphia, addressed a letter to the plaintiff, a merchant of Boston, requesting him to purchase for them in that city, seventy casks of Teneriffe wine, at one dollar and fifteen cents per gallon, or less, if he could do so, at six months, payable, if possible, in Philadelphia; to which place it was to be shipped.

“This is a bill to be relieved against a bond and mortgage given by the plaintiff to Putnam Catlin, to secure the purchase money for a tract of land sold and conveyed by the latter to the former. The bill states that on the 17th of April 1815, the plaintiff was in possession of eighty acres of land under an improvement right; on which he had resided for several years, and made many valuable improvements. That about the time above mentioned, Putnam Catlin alleged that he had purchased the large tract which included the above eighty acres of land, of John B.

“Action to recover the balance of an account of sales rendered by the defendant to plaintiff. The case was, the plaintiff, a merchant of New York, entered into a contract with defendant, then residing in Philadelphia, in the year 1818, to furnish him with a large assortment of jewellery, which he was to take from place to place in the United States to sell for the plaintiff, upon a commission of five per cent, on the invoice prices, and one half of what he might sell them for beyond those prices, the same to be in lieu of expenses and all other charges.

Case agreed. “The plaintiffs being bona fide, and for a valuable consideration, possessed of certain notes issued by this Bank, and having occasion to remit money to Baltimore, cut them in halves, and in February 1806, enclosed'-the half parts of said notes to their correspondent in Baltimore, which were 

“The bill states that the plaintiff and defendant entered into a written agreement for a purchase, by the former, from the latter, of a certain tract of land, for which he was to receive a good title, and was to pay a certain sum by instalments. That the plaintiff was put into possession, but the defendant having refused to convey the land according to his contract, and having brought an ejectment against the plaintiff to recover the land, which was removed from the state court to this, he prays for a specific performance, and for an injunction.