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Aikin v. Bloodgood 12 Ala. 221, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) 1847 Error to the Circuit Court of Mobile.   Cases  
Alexander v. Ghiselin 5 Gill 138, Court of Appeals of Maryland (December 01, 1847) 1847 Under the act of 1805, ch. 110, and its supplements, the trustee of an insolvent is not restricted in his sales to what he has in actual possession. Property in the hands of a tenant, a bailee, or a trespasser, or mortgagee of more value than the debt, may be sold. The design of the 7th section of that act was to allow full force and effect to an...   Cases  
American Colonization Soc. v. Wade 8 Smedes & M. 610, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1847) 1847 Courts of probate in this state have no power to grant injunctions. The superior court of chancery of this state, in a cause pending before it, appointed a receiver to take possession of certain property then in the hands of W. as one of the executors of I. R., deceased; the probate court of Jefferson county, upon the petition of W., issued an...   Cases  
Amis v. Amis 5 Ired.Eq. 12, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1847) 1847 The bill is filed, to procure a construction of the will of Joseph Amis deceased. By his will, the testator devised as follows--I direct that my children remain with my wife, to be raised and educated out of my estate: and as one child may become of age, or marry, to have allotted off to such child, as much of my estate as I have given to my...   Cases  
Amonett v. Fisk 2 La.Ann. 263, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the District Court of Madison, Curry, J.   Cases  
Anderson v. Brooks 11 Ala. 953, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) 1847 Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Macon.   Cases  
Andrews v. Burns 11 Ala. 691, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) 1847 Error to the Orphans' Court of Dallas.   Cases  
Appeal of Grayson 5 Pa. 395, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (May 01, 1847) 1847 The appeals in this case were heard together. The sum in the hands of the sequestrator for distribution was $269. The account was referred to an auditor, and exceptions filed to his report. The assignees of John Moore and George Ege claimed the whole sum; John W. Helfenstein's assignees claimed a pro rata dividend with the assignees of Moore and...   Cases  
Arkansas v. Ball Hempst. 541, Circuit Court, D Arkansas (May 01, 1847) 1847 At law. Action of debt on administration bond by the governor of the state of Arkansas against Bennett B. Ball, John S. Blair, and Benjamin F. Howard. Defendants demur. Demurrer sustained.   Cases  
Arsene v. Pigneguy 2 La.Ann. 620, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the First District Court of New Orleans, McHenry, J.   Cases  
Ashe v. Hale 5 Ired.Eq. 55, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1847) 1847 To support a bill of injunction by the purchaser of land against the vendor to restrain the collection of the purchase money, upon the ground that there were prior liens upon the land (as, for instance, for taxes due,) the plaintiff must set forth in his bill, as nearly as he can, the amount of such liens; and where he alleges he gave more for the...   Cases  
Attorney General v. Wallace's Devisees 7 B.Mon. 611, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 01, 1847) 1847 Wills. Devises. Charities. Jurisdiction. Survivorship. ERROR TO THE MASON CIRCUIT. THE will of Thomas Wallace, who died in the county of Fleming, in 1840, having a large estate, contains the following provisions: I do hereby will and bequeath all my estate, real and personal, of every description and kind whatever, except the sums hereafter...   Cases  
Aycock v. Buffington 2 Kelly 268, Supreme Court of Georgia (March 01, 1847) 1847 [1.] The commissions of Sheriffs on money raised by levy and sale, are regulated according to the amount of the executions. On executions not exceeding in amount sixty-four dollars and twenty-eight cents, they are entitled to 6 1/4 per cent. On executions which do not exceed four hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-six cents, 3 1/8 per cent....   Cases  
Bach v. Barrett 2 La.Ann. 955, Supreme Court of Louisiana (November 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the Parish Court of New Orleans, Maurian, J.   Cases  
Baldwin v. Green 10 Mo. 410, Supreme Court of Missouri (January 01, 1847) 1847 Green brought his action before a justice of the peace, against Baldwin for a failure to work on the road, over which the former was overseer. The case went to the Circuit Court, where Green having obtained judgment, Baldwin appealed to this court. The only question presented for the decison of this court, is whether the act incorporating the town...   Cases  
Baldwin v. Merrill 27 Tenn. 132, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1847) 1847 On the 8th day of February, 1839, the plaintiffs recovered judgment against the defendant and John W. Clark, as partners for $198.64. Upon this judgment execution issued on the 31st July, 1839, and was levied on the property of Clark. Before sale, Clark agreed with J. B. White, the attorney of plaintiffs, to execute his note with security for the...   Cases  
Bank of Charleston v. Hagan 2 La.Ann. 999, Supreme Court of Louisiana (December 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the First District Court of New Orleans, McHenry, J. The facts of this case are stated in the opinion of the court infrâ.   Cases  
Barker v. Esty 19 Vt. 131, Supreme Court of Vermont (January 01, 1847) 1847 The first question to be determined in this case is, whether, under the Revised Statutes, the trustee can be held liable. That will depend upon the extension we give to the terms of the statute,--Every person, having any goods, effects, or credits, of the principal defendant intrusted or deposited in his hands, or possession, or which shall...   Cases  
Barnawell v. Threadgill 5 Ired.Eq. 86, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1847) 1847 The Court thinks the demurrer ought not to have been sustained. The bill, it is true, is very badly drawn, stuffed with epithets not pertinent, and irrelevant matter, and wanting in directness and precision in the material allegations. The vagueness of the charges, not stating specifically the grounds on which each of the defendants is to be...   Cases  
Barraque v. Manuel 7 Ark. 516, Supreme Court of Arkansas (January 01, 1847) 1847 Upon a bill, by B. & M. to foreclose a mortgage for a joint debt due them, the court cannot make a decree for a separate debt due to B, if the same be not alleged in the bill to be secured by the mortgage; although that fact may appear from the subsequent proceedings in the cause, for no relief can be granted for matters not charged in the bill. If...   Cases  
Barrow v. Bank of Louisiana 2 La.Ann. 453, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the District Court of West Feliciana, Boyle, J.   Cases  
Barth v. State 18 Conn. 432, Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut (June 01, 1847) 1847 The statute, for a violation of which the plaintiff in error was convicted, prohibits any person or persons, except taverners, from keeping any house, store, shop, or other place for the purpose of selling any wine or spiritous liquor, to be drank thereat. Stat. of 1846. p. 46. The information charged, that he, on &c., at &c.,...   Cases  
Baxter v. Bailey 8 B.Mon. 336, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (January 20, 1847) 1847 The question involved. WE are inclined to the opinion that the deed of gift to Amanda Baxter, was not executed on the Thursday immediately preceding the death of Wm. Baxter, but in the preceding week. We do not, however, regard this as the turning point of the case, and some of the minute circumstances bearing upon it may not have been fully...   Cases  
Beaulieu v. Furst 2 La.Ann. 46, Supreme Court of Louisiana (January 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. A verdict and judgment having been rendered in this case in favor of the defendant, for $6,559 87, with interest at five per cent a year, from the 13th October, 1838, till paid, the plaintiffs appealed;   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Behrnes v. Coxe 2 La.Ann. 472, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the District Court of East Baton Rouge, Burk, J.   Cases  
Bell v. Murphy 2 La.Ann. 765, Supreme Court of Louisiana (August 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the District Court of St. Mary, Voorhies, J.   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Beltzhoover v. Costen 7 Pa. 13, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (September 01, 1847) 1847 The plaintiffs in error, who were plaintiffs below, insist that Braddock's-field, the land in controversy, is included in the first clause of the devise; that an estate in fee-simple is vested in George Wallace, defeasible by his dying without issue; that this event having taken place, the limitation over took effect, and they, as heirs of Arabella...   Cases  
Bemiss v. Hawkins 2 La.Ann. 500, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the District Court of Madison, Curry, J.   Cases  
Bender v. Reynolds 12 Ala. 446, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) 1847 Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lowndes.   Cases  
Bennett v. Williamson 8 Ired. 121, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1847) 1847 If there was no assent of the executors, the plaintiffs, of course, have no title at law. To maintain their action, then, an assent at some time must be supposed; and it is admitted on the part of the plaintiffs, that the action is barred, if the assent be not shewn or presumed to have been given after the death of Mrs. Bennett in 1845. Now,...   Cases  
Berry v. Hardman 12 Ala. 604, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) 1847 Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Barbour.   Cases  
Betton v. Willis 1 Fla. 226, Supreme Court of Florida (January 01, 1847) 1847 WHEN a claim to property has been interposed under the 9th and 10th sections of an act concerning executions, approved 17th February, 1833, it is the duty of the officer to return the affidavit and bond of claimant, and the execution levied, to the next term of the Court whence the execution issued. But it is not necessary that the...   Cases  
Beverley v. Brooke 4 Gratt. 187, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (October 01, 1847) 1847 (Absent Brooke, J.) 1. Where there are conflicting claimants of a trust fund, who are prosecuting separate suits in the same Court, to subject it, the appointment of a receiver in one of the suits, on the motion of the plaintiff in that suit, will enure to the benefit of the plaintiff in the other suit, upon the establishment of his superior right...   Cases  
Billingsley v. Harrell 11 Ala. 775, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) 1847 Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Perry.   Cases  
Blake v. Irwin 3 Kelly 345, Supreme Court of Georgia (August 01, 1847) 1847 [1.] By the marriage settlement, the property of the intended wife was vested in trustees, to be held in trust for the use of the husband during his life; he was to have the entire possession, and to exercise reasonable ownership over the same, and to alter and change the same by and with the consent of the trustees, and provided, it was for the...   Cases  
Blakemore v. Byrnside 7 Ark. 505, Supreme Court of Arkansas (January 01, 1847) 1847 Where the grantor is as much, or more interested in the execution and preservation of a deed than the grantee, the fact of its being found in his possession does not create any presumption against the idea that delivery was intended at the time of its execution. In chancery, a deed, absolute upon its face, may be shown by parol evidence to have...   Cases  
Blanchard v. Taylor's Heirs 7 B.Mon. 645, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (October 04, 1847) 1847 Conveyances. Champerty. Executions. Trust estates. APPEAL FROM THE MASON CIRCUIT. Case stated. IN 1786, a grant issued from the Commonwealth of Virginia to Anthony Thornton for thirty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty acres of land, lying in the present counties of Mason, Nicholas and Bracken. In 1793, Thornton conveyed 11,775 acres of this...   Cases  
Bloodworth v. Jacobs 2 La.Ann. 24, Supreme Court of Louisiana (January 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the Parish Court of New Orleans, Maurian, J.   Cases  
Bond v. Jones 8 Smedes & M. 368, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1847) 1847 Money paid upon an usurious contract may be recovered back at law; and also in equity where there are circumstances to give the court jurisdiction; where therefore after a judgment at law upon a note to which the defence of usury had been successfully made and the amount of the judgment reduced thereby, the defendant voluntarily paid the plaintiff...   Cases  
Bonin v. Durand 2 La.Ann. 776, Supreme Court of Louisiana (August 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal, by the parties cited in warranty, from a judgment of the District Court of St. Martin, Overton, J. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion infrâ.   Cases  
Bookout v. Anderson 2 La.Ann. 246, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the District Court of Madison, Curry, J.   Cases  
Bowen v. Snell 11 Ala. 379, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) 1847 Writ of Error to the County Court of Butler.   Cases  
Branch Bank v. Hodges 12 Ala. 118, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1847) 1847 Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Barbour.   Cases  
Brewer v. Strong 10 Ala. 961, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) 1847 Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Fayette.   Cases  
Brewer v. West 2 Tex. 376, Supreme Court of Texas (December 01, 1847) 1847 The answer not only contains a great deal of impertinent and irrelevant matter, but is further objectionable as not presenting any defense in law, admitting it to be all true, to the action. Unless the defendant was injured or likely to be injured by the fraud of which he complains, he could claim no defense from it, either in law or equity. He...   Cases  
Brinegar v. Griffin 2 La.Ann. 154, Supreme Court of Louisiana (February 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the District Court of Iberville, Burk, J.   Cases  
Broussard v. Broussard 2 La.Ann. 769, Supreme Court of Louisiana (August 01, 1847) 1847 Appeal from the District Court of Lafayette, Boyce, J.   Cases  
Brown v. Brown 20 S.C.Eq. 363, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (December 01, 1847) 1847 A trustee who purchased land for the benefit and at the request of his cestui que trust, but took the titles in his individual name, and afterwards sold off portions of it and made titles and took the securities for the payment of the purchase money, also in his individual name, and who had admitted the fiduciary nature of the transaction in an...   Cases  
Brown v. Isbell 11 Ala. 1009, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1847) 1847 Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Talladega.   Cases  
Brown v. Riggins' Executors 3 Kelly 405, Supreme Court of Georgia (August 01, 1847) 1847 This bill was filed by Brown, a surety for White, Head, Kilpatrick, and Griffin, against Riggins, the creditor, for relief; alleging that he was discharged by the acts of the creditor. In this case the debt was reduced to judgment against the principals and the surety. The bill charges that Riggins, the creditor, after judgment, and the execution...   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
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