TitleCitationYearSummaryMost RelevantTypeStatus
Tuggle v. Barclay 6 Ala. 407, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) 1844 WRIT of error to the Circuit Court of Talladega.   Cases  
Tunstall v. Walker 2 Smedes & M. 638, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1844) 1844 Where the indorser of a promissory note has not, at the date of the maturity and protest of the note, any known place of residence or business, no notice is necessary to fix his liability upon the note. In such a case it is not necessary to prove the exercise of due diligence, to ascertain the residence of the indorser, he, in point of fact, having...   Cases  
Tupper v. Scott 7 Rob. (LA) 323, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J.   Cases  
Turner v. Grainger 24 Tenn. 347, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1844) 1844 The complainant is a judgment creditor of William Roney the defendant, and caused an execution to be issued, to obtain satisfaction of said judgment, upon which there was a return of nulla bona. It seems that in the year 1836 the defendant Roney intermarried with the daughter of defendant Grainger; and, some time after the intermarriage, the...   Cases  
Turnipseed v. State 6 Ala. 664, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1844) 1844 WRIT of error to the Circuit Court of Pickens.   Cases  
U.S. v. Gassaway 1 Hay. & Haz. 174, Circuit Court, District of Columbia (March 30, 1844) 1844 This was an indictment against Samuel Gassaway for house-breaking. This is an indictment, for breaking into a storehouse and stealing goods, under the act of Maryland of July, 1729, c. 4, ยง 3, and is as follows: The jurors of the United States, for the county aforesaid, on their oath present that Samuel Gassaway, late of the county aforesaid, a...   Cases  
Verdun v. Splane 6 Rob. (LA) 530, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the District Court of Terrebonne, Deblieux, J.   Cases  
Vidal v. Verdier 17 S.C.Eq. 402, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (January 01, 1844) 1844 1. Testator devised and bequeathed as follows: I give, devise, and bequeath, unto my beloved wife, S. B. the use of all and singular my estate, both real and personal, whatsoever, and wheresoever, during her natural life; and after the death of my beloved wife, S. B. I leave to my nephew, J. F. V. the whole of my estate, both real and personal;...   Cases  
Villere v. Graeter 7 Rob. (LA) 203, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the Parish Court of Plaquemines, Leonard, J.   Cases  
Wafer v. Hemken 9 Rob. (LA) 203, Supreme Court of Louisiana (October 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the District Court of Claiborne, King, J.   Cases  
Waggaman v. Zacharie 8 Rob. (LA) 181, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the Court of Probates of Jefferson, Smith, J.   Cases  
Ward v. Hatch 4 Ired. 282, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1844) 1844 It is argued here for the plaintiff, that the evidence of Mrs. Burke was admissible, to prove an act done by the plaintiff, relative to the bond, variant from what Mainor, the defendant's witness, proved that the plaintiff had admitted to him, had been done with the said bond. The evidence was offered and received, say the plaintiff's counsel, to...   Cases  
Washington v. Cole 6 Ala. 212, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) 1844 WRIT of Error to the Circuit Court of Tuskaloosa.   Cases  
White v. Guyot 6 Rob. (LA) 443, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the District Court of Lafourche Interior, Deblieux, J.   Cases  
White v. State 1 Morr.St.Cas. 209, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1844) 1844 An affidavit made before a justice of the peace, for the purpose of procuring a writ of habeas corpus from a circuit judge, will be, if false in a material matter, sufficient to uphold a conviction for perjury. J. W. being in custody, made affidavit, for the purpose of obtaining a writ of habeas corpus, that he was forced into a trial late...   Cases  
Whiting v. Rust 1 Gratt. 483, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (September 01, 1844) 1844 In an antenuptial marriage settlement conveying and settling the property of the feme, it was recited that it had been agreed that J. B. A. (the husband) should, after the intended marriage had, receive and enjoy, during the joint lives of them the said J. B. A. and A. B. C. (the feme,) the interest and occupation of the said real and...   Cases  
Wickliffe v. Bailey's Adm'r 5 B.Mon. 253, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 26, 1844) 1844 Writs of error. Parties. Possession. Vendor and vendee. APPEAL AND WRIT OF ERROR TO THE FAYETTE CIRCUIT. Case stated. IN 1814, Mary O. Russell executed a deed to Lewis Sanders, conveying to him in fee simple, and for the acknowledged consideration of $1,000, a lot in the town of Lexington, described by metes and bounds. In 1817 Lewis Sanders...   Cases  
Wilcox v. Henderson 7 Rob. (LA) 338, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the District Court of East Baton Rouge, Johnson, J.   Cases  
Williams v. Bank of Louisiana 7 Rob. (LA) 316, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J.   Cases  
Williams v. Charles 7 Ala. 202, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1844) 1844 Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Macon.   Cases  
Williams v. President, etc., of Bank of Illinois 1 Gilman 667, Supreme Court of Illinois (December 01, 1844) 1844 This is an action brought by the Bank of Illinois against the defendants below, upon a note given to the bank for money loaned in the ordinary course of business. Judgment was rendered by the court below against the defendants, from which judgment they have appealed, and rely upon three grounds for its reversal: First, That the act of 1835, by...   Cases  
Williams v. Vanmeter 8 Mo. 339, Supreme Court of Missouri (January 01, 1844) 1844 This was an action for a malicious prosecution, instituted by Vanmeter against Williams, in which Vanmeter had a verdict and judgment. It is deemed unnecessary to set out the various counts in the declaration, as the point made by the defendant below (Williams), in relation to the refusal of the court to strike out the second count, was abandoned...   Cases  
Williamson v. Williamson 3 Smedes & M. 715, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (November 01, 1844) 1844 C. died possessed of real estate; in 1821, the legislature passed an act authorizing C.'s administrator to sell the land upon terms and conditions prescribed, and to invest the proceeds as in his discretion would be most judicious for the widow and heir; the administrator sold the land; and in 1838, C.'s heirs filed a bill to set the sale aside;...   Cases  
Willis v. Willis 7 Rob. (LA) 87, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the District Court of East Baton Rouge, Johnson, J.   Cases  
Wilson v. Craighead 6 Rob. (LA) 429, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the Court of Probates of Iberville, Dutton, J.   Cases  
Wilson v. McElroy 2 Smedes & M. 241, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1844) 1844 A legal right in the plaintiff to the matter in dispute, is the necessary foundation of every action at law. An assignee of a chose in action, at common law, could not maintain an action in his own name; the act of 1822, authorizing assignees, in certain cases, to sue, removes the common law inhibition only to the cases enumerated in the statute;...   Cases  
Winston v. Metcalf 6 Ala. 756, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1844) 1844 WRIT of error to the County Court of Sumter.   Cases  
Winter v. Zacharie 6 Rob. (LA) 466, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1844) 1844 Appeal from the District Court of Ascension, Deblieux, J.   Cases  
Wiswall v. Ticknor 6 Ala. 178, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1844) 1844 APPEAL from the Chancery Court at Mobile.   Cases  
Womble v. Battle 3 Ired.Eq. 182, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1844) 1844 On the 5th of September, 1839, the plaintiff sold and conveyed to the defendant Battle the lot of ground mentioned in the bill, at the price of $700, payable on the 1st of January, 1840, for which Battle gave him his bond without any surety. Battle, by deed bearing date the 3d of August, 1841, conveyed the same lot of ground to Bennet T. Blake, the...   Cases  
Wood v. Robinson 3 Smedes & M. 271, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1844) 1844 A sheriff has no authority whatever to receive payments for a plaintiff, or take property, without an operative execution in his hands. The authority he receives by an execution ceases at the return term. Payments made to a sheriff in a depreciated currency, do not amount to a satisfaction of the execution, and are not binding on the plaintiff;...   Cases  
Worten v. Howard 2 Smedes & M. 527, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1844) 1844 A sale by an executor or administrator of property of his intestate, unless in the mode prescribed by the statute passes no title, and is void. The return of an administrator to the orphan's court of sales of his intestate's property made by him, not showing upon its face that the sales were made according to the statute, may be attacked, and it...   Cases  
Adair v. Smith 5 B.Mon. 426, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 05, 1845) 1845 Deeds of gift. Remainders. ERROR TO THE BUTLER CIRCUIT. WE are satisfied that the deed of gift from Abraham Reese, Sr., to Abraham Reese, Jr., and Robert Reese, was duly and properly recorded, and upon proper acknowledgment, in the Circuit Court office. At the time when the deed in question was acknowledged, 1803, all deeds were properly recordable...   Cases  
Adams v. Avery 9 Rob. (LA) 431, Supreme Court of Louisiana (January 01, 1845) 1845 Appeal from the Commercial Court of New Orleans, Watts, J.   Cases  
Alexander v. Alexander 8 Ala. 796, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1845) 1845 Error to the Chancery Court at Montgomery.   Cases  
Alexander v. Cunningham 5 Ired. 430, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1845) 1845 A. devised as follows: I will to my son M. W. A. all my estate, real and personal, for his use and benefit; and then to be divided off and distributed among his children, as he may think proper. That is to say, my land to be used by him, and the profits thereof to be to him; but the lands to be by him divided and distributed among his...   Cases  
Alexander v. Fisher 7 Ala. 514, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1845) 1845 Writ of error to the Court of Chancery for the 12th district of the Southern Division.   Cases  
Alford v. Colson 8 Ala. 550, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1845) 1845 Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Monroe.   Cases  
Allen v. Crosland 2 Rich.Eq. 68, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (December 01, 1845) 1845 Testator bequeathed as follows. I give to my daughter Mary, at her marriage, or when she attains the full age of twenty-one years, two-thirds of my personal estate. But should she die before she marries, or attains the full age of twenty-one years, then, and in that case, I give the same to my wife, &c. Held that, as long as Mary remained...   Cases  
Alston v. Coleman 7 Ala. 795, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1845) 1845 Writ of error to the County Court of Marengo.   Cases  
Andat v. Gilly 12 Rob. (LA) 323, Supreme Court of Louisiana (December 01, 1845) 1845 Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J.   Cases  
Anderson v. Dickson 8 Ala. 733, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1845) 1845 Error to the County Court of Marengo.   Cases  
Andrews v. Chapman 10 Rob. (LA) 188, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1845) 1845 Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J.   Cases  
Ansley v. Pearson 8 Ala. 431, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1845) 1845 Appeal from the Court of Chancery sitting at Tuskegee.   Cases  
Arnett v. Wanett 6 Ired. 41, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1845) 1845 A voluntary deed is not void as to creditors, when the donor retains sufficient property to pay his debts, and out of which the claims of the creditors may be satisfied. The Act of Assembly of 1840, ch. 28, sec. 3 and 4, applies to voluntary deeds made before the passage of that Act, as well as to those made subsequently. The cases of O'Daniel v....   Cases  
Arrington v. Gee 5 Ired. 590, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1845) 1845 The Court is of opinion, that there was no error in refusing the instructions prayed by the defendant's counsel, or in those which his Honor gave to the jury. The contract of sale, from which the bond sued on had its origin, was made and completed in Alabama; and the money, which the purchaser engaged to pay to the seller, would, if not paid when...   Cases  
Atchison's Heirs v. Lindsey 6 B.Mon. 86, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 01, 1845) 1845 Case stated in the bill THIS bill was filed by the infant heirs and administrator of the domicil of John Atchison, deceased, a citizen of Kentucky, and domiciled here at the time of his death, against James Lindsey, who administered on the estate of the decedent, in South Carolina, but is himself a resident and citizen of Kentucky. The bill alleges...   Cases  
Athey v. Knotts 6 B.Mon. 24, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (September 20, 1845) 1845 Femes covert. Maintenance. Equitable interest, &c. ERROR TO THE LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. Case stated. KNOTTS having obtained two judgments at law, one against Elisha Athey and John W. Athey, and the other against Elisha Athey alone, upon which executions had been returned, no property found, exhibited this bill in Chancery against said Atheys,...   Cases  
Avery v. Allain 11 Rob. (LA) 436, Supreme Court of Louisiana (July 01, 1845) 1845 Appeal from the District Court of Iberville. Deblieux, J.   Cases  
Bailey v. Starke 6 Ark. 191, Supreme Court of Arkansas (July 01, 1845) 1845 As a general rule one partner cannot sue another, at law, in an action in form ex contractu, but must proceed by action of account, or by bill in equity. One partner cannot, at law, recover a sum of money received by the other on account of the flrm, unless, on a balance struck, that sum is found to be due him. But if one partner expressly covenant...   Cases  
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