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Carter v. Balfour's Adm'r 19 Ala. 814, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Chancery Court of Talladega. Tried before the Hon. D. G. Ligon.   Cases  
Carter v. Reynolds 6 Tex. 561, Supreme Court of Texas (January 01, 1851) 1851 A distinct cause of action cannot be introduced by way of amendment to the petition. Where the plaintiff instituted suit upon two judgments for the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars each, alleged to have been recovered by him against the defendant on two promissory notes for the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars each, in the State of...   Cases  
Carter v. Williams 8 Ired.Eq. 177, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1851) 1851 A term for years does not exclude the actual seisin of the husband and wife, whether they receive rent or not, since the possession of the term is that of the reversioner; and, therefore, in such a case the husband is entitled to curtesy. A devised that his plantation, called Eagle falls, remain in possesion of his wife during her widowhood,...   Cases  
Chamberlin v. Milbank 6 La.Ann. 383, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the Fourth District Court of New Orleans, Strawbridge, J.   Cases  
Childers v. Johnson 6 La.Ann. 634, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the District Court of Carroll, Snyder, J.   Cases  
Chretien v. Richardson 6 La.Ann. 2, Supreme Court of Louisiana (January 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the District Court of the Parish of St. Mary. Overton, J.   Cases  
Clark v. State 19 Ala. 552, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. John D. Phelan.   Cases  
Clarke v. Jenkins 3 Rich.Eq. 318, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (January 01, 1851) 1851 Executors charged with neglect in the management of the plantations of testator under their charge; the Master and Chancellor having concurred that there had been no neglect, the Court of Appeals refused to disturb their judgment. Testator devised separate plantations to his three infant children; there being a considerable amount of debts of...   Cases  
Cole v. Robertson 6 Tex. 356, Supreme Court of Texas (January 01, 1851) 1851 Execution was issued on a judgment and levied; a delivery-bond was given; the delivery-bond was returned forfeited; execution was then issued against the principal and surety in the bond, and was returned no property; the plaintiff having brought suit to revive the original judgment, the defendant contended that it was satisfied by...   Cases  
Coles' Adm'rs v. Perry 7 Tex. 109, Supreme Court of Texas (January 01, 1851) 1851 The following instrument, made in 1830, was held to be an executory contract of sale, and not a mortgage: This day, settled all accounts with Stephen F. Austin up to this day, and fell eight hundred and fifty-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents in his debt, which I agree to pay by the half a grant of land which I received for a mill tract on the...   Cases  
Collins v. Lavenberg 19 Ala. 682, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Chancery Court of Lowndes. Tried before the Hon. J. W. Lesesne.   Cases  
Comby v. McMichael 19 Ala. 747, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Chancery Court of Benton. Tried before the Hon. D. G. Ligon.   Cases  
COSTS OF SUITS AGAINST OFFICERS OF THE NAVY. 5 U.S. Op. Atty. Gen. 397 (July 03, 1851) 1851     Administrative Decisions & Guidance  
Courtney v. Davidson 6 La.Ann. 453, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the District Court of St. Helena, Penn, J.   Cases  
Cox v. Buck 5 Rich. 604, Court of Errors of South Carolina (May 01, 1851) 1851 The opinion of the Court was delivered by The only question which has been argued, and the only one necessary to be decided, arises on the construction of Joseph Cox's will. The testator divided his property between his two sons, Harmon and Peter, and provides as follows: If either of my two sons should die without lawful issue, that my...   Cases  
Coyle v. Campbell 10 Ga. 570, Supreme Court of Georgia (November 01, 1851) 1851 [1.] Notes, bonds and other assumptions, made to a person as a physcian or surgeon, the consideration of which is services rendered in prescribing for the cure of diseases, without a license: Held to be null and void; so, also, any obligation which springs out of the exercise of the profession of medicine, without a license. Debt, in Baldwin...   Cases  
Craig v. Phipps 1 Cushm. 240, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (November 01, 1851) 1851 This action is founded on an assignment of an officer's receipt by C. to W., and an undertaking therein that its amount should be paid to W., or that C. would be liable for it, no particular time of payment being specified. The receipt shows the officer was to collect and pay over, and if he failed to do this, then an obligation to pay arose on the...   Cases  
Crawford v. Points 54 U.S. 11, Supreme Court of the United States (December 01, 1851) 1851 THIS was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Virginia. The facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the court so far as they bear upon the question of jurisdiction; and it is unnecessary to state the other facts. An appeal does not lie to this court, from the decision of a District Court in a...   Cases  
Cross v. Camp 7 Ired.Eq. 193, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1851) 1851 The tenant for life of a residue or of a sum of money can have the interest only; for, in effect, he is the donee of an annuity measured by the interest. The solvency of one in the best credit now is so uncertain as to any future time, especially through his life time, as not to authorize his having in his hands, or his own credit, money which must...   Cases  
Crossby v. Smith 3 Rich.Eq. 244, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (January 01, 1851) 1851 Testator bequeathed the whole of his personal estate to his wife for life, the same to be equally divided, at my wife's decease, among all my children:one reserve I wish my executors to enforce; that is, if either of my lawful heirs should die, leaving issue behind them, before a distribution should take place, as I have before mentioned, for...   Cases  
Crow v. State 14 Mo. 237, Supreme Court of Missouri (March 01, 1851) 1851 Crow and others, defendants, were jointly indicted by the grand jury of St. Louis county for dealing as merchants without a license as required by law. The indictment contains six counts substantially as follows: The first count charges that defendants, as co-partners in trade as merchants at St. Louis county, on, &c., and divers other days and...   Cases  
Crow v. State 18 Ala. 541, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before the Hon. Geo. Goldthwaite.   Cases  
Crump v. Thompson 13 Ired. 150, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1851) 1851 It must be understood, that the lessor of the plaintiff made no entry, in July 1845, on the land claimed by the defendant; but stopped at the corner, from which the first disputed line ran; and, therefore, that the single question is, whether an attempt to procession land is within the last proviso, in the first section of the act of limitations:...   Cases  
Cunningham v. Shannon 4 Rich.Eq. 135, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (November 01, 1851) 1851 By ante-nuptial contract, husband agreed, that, if his wife should survive him, and no provision should be made for her in his will in an amount equal to $20,000; or, if he should die intestate, and she, as his heir, should not receive from his estate an amount equal to $20,000; then, he charged his estate with the payment of $20,000, or such sum...   Cases  
Cuthbert v. Wolfe 19 Ala. 373, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. John Bragg.   Cases  
Dabney v. Kennedy 7 Gratt. 317, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (April 21, 1851) 1851 (Absent Cabell, P. and Daniel, J.) 1. An agreement made in contemplation of marriage, though void against creditors because not recorded, is valid between the parties; and the wife and children for whose benefit it is made, may call for a specific execution of the agreement, if there is no existing creditor or purchaser whose rights will be...   Cases  
Danner v. South Carolina R. Co. 4 Rich. 329, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (January 01, 1851) 1851 In an action on the case against a Rail Road Company, to recover damages for the loss of cattle of the plaintiff, killed by the engine and cars of the Company, in their passage along the road, a negligent killing must be shewn. If the proof shews that the killing was wilful on the part of the engineer, or that it was entirely accidental, the action...   Cases  
Davidson v. Potts 7 Ired.Eq. 272, Supreme Court of North Carolina (August 01, 1851) 1851 The bill in this case cannot be sustained in any point of view. The parties, both plaintiffs and defendants, are the next of kin of John Davidson, standing in equal relation to him, and equally entitled to a due proportion of his personal property--but none of them are entitled, in law, to its present possession, or to call upon a Court of Equity...   Cases  
Davis v. Loftin 6 Tex. 489, Supreme Court of Texas (January 01, 1851) 1851 Where rulings of the court below relate to questions which are superseded in their application to the particular case by some principle which underlies them, they are immaterial, and therefore can afford no ground for reversing the judgment. (Note 83.) Where the statement of facts was obviously imperfect, and the clerk, in making up the transcript,...   Cases  
Davis v. State 10 Ga. 101, Supreme Court of Georgia (July 01, 1851) 1851 The defendant was indicted for the murder of Eli Larkin, and on the trial, various exceptions were taken to the charge of the Court to the Jury. To the first portion of the charge, as contained in the record, to which exceptions were taken, we find no error. [1.] The second portion of the charge of the Court, to which error is assigned is, that the...   Cases  
Dawson v. Creditors 6 La.Ann. 212, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the District Court of East Baton Rouge, Burk, J.   Cases  
Dennis v. Chapman 19 Ala. 29, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Circuit Court of Randolph. Tried before the Hon. John J. Woodward.   Cases  
Desha v. Jones 6 La.Ann. 743, Supreme Court of Louisiana (October 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the District Court of Claiborne, Jones, J.   Cases  
Deshautels v. Fontenot 6 La.Ann. 689, Supreme Court of Louisiana (September 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the District Court of St. Landry, Voorhies, J.   Cases  
Dickinson v. Way 3 Rich.Eq. 412, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (May 01, 1851) 1851 Where a judgment, confessed for a much larger amount than is actually due the plaintiff, and intended not only to secure the amount due, but, also, to defeat other creditors, is set aside, at the instance of a creditor, for the actual fraud, the whole judgment is set aside so far as creditors are concerned, and the plaintiff must stand upon the...   Cases  
Dickson v. Jordan 12 Ired. 79, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1851) 1851 In an action on an express contract for the price of Rope sold and delivered, where no price was agreed upon, the defendant can only shew what was the market price, generally, of rope of this kind, at the time of the sale, but cannot shew what was the real or actual value of the article sold, so as to reduce the amount, which the plaintiff would be...   Cases  
Dorch v. Thompson 12 B.Mon. 379, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (December 09, 1851) 1851 Case stated. THIS was an action of ejectment by the junior patentee, against persons holding and claiming under the elder patent, and the plaintiff having recovered a judgment, the defendants have appealed to this Court. The principal question to be determined is, whether a junior patentee who has had such a possession of the land as is...   Cases  
Doss v. Campbell 19 Ala. 590, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before the Hon. Geo. Goldthwaite.   Cases  
Dougherty v. McDougald 10 Ga. 121, Supreme Court of Georgia (July 01, 1851) 1851 [1.] This was an application to the Chancellor, on a bill filed by the complainant, as a judgment creditor of the late Daniel McDougald, against his administratrix, for the appointment of a receiver, to take charge of the assets belonging to the decedent's estate, on the ground of alleged fraud and mismanagement by the administratrix. This bill,...   Cases  
Dowdell v. Neal 10 Ga. 148, Supreme Court of Georgia (July 01, 1851) 1851 [1.] When an execution is levied upon land, and at the same time upon personal property, and the land alone is sold, the execution is not, prima facie, satisfied by such a levy on personal property, and the purchaser of the land gets a good title. [2.] The Jury are not bound to believe according to the number of witnesses, but may take into view...   Cases  
Drake v. Moore 18 Ala. 597, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Circuit Court of Perry. Tried before the Hon. Geo. D. Shortridge.   Cases  
Drane v. Gunter 19 Ala. 731, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Chancery Court of Lowndes. Tried before the Hon. J. W. Lesesne.   Cases  
Dugans v. Livingston 15 Mo. 230, Supreme Court of Missouri (October 01, 1851) 1851 1. It is insisted, that the boy Toney did not pass to the plaintiffs, under the third clause of Stephen Dugan's will, but that as to him, Stephen Dugan died intestate. The operative words in that clause on which the plaintiffs found their claim, are perishable property. This term is defined under our law as meaning such property as is liable to...   Cases  
Dunn v. Dial 5 Rich. 41, Court of Appeals of Law of South Carolina (November 01, 1851) 1851 The payee of a sealed note assigned it in writing to D. and D. transferred it, by delivery, to W. and guarantied the solvency of the obligor: W. sued D. on his guaranty and recovered the amount of the principal of the note without interest: D. paid the judgment, and the obligor paid D. the full amount of the principal and interest of the note: W....   Cases  
Dupre v. Uzee 6 La.Ann. 280, Supreme Court of Louisiana (March 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the Second District Court of New Orleans, Lea, J.   Cases  
DUTY OF THE PRESIDENT RESPECTING DISTRICT MARSHALS. 5 U.S. Op. Atty. Gen. 287 (January 17, 1851) 1851     Administrative Decisions & Guidance  
Dwyer v. Cane 6 La.Ann. 707, Supreme Court of Louisiana (October 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the District Court of Bossier, Olcott, J.   Cases  
Emswiler v. Burham 6 La.Ann. 710, Supreme Court of Louisiana (October 01, 1851) 1851 Appeal from the District Court of Morehouse, Copley, J.   Cases  
Erwin v. Parham 53 U.S. 197, Supreme Court of the United States (December 01, 1851) 1851 Where a bill in chancery states that, at an execution sale, which was alleged to have been open and fair, the complainant purchased, for the sum of $600, certain promissory notes secured by mortgage, amounting in the whole to $260,000, and the bill was demurred to, and the demurrer sustained by the Circuit Court, this judgment must be reversed....   Cases  
Evans v. Battle 19 Ala. 398, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1851) 1851 ERROR to the Chancery Court of Wilcox. Tried before the Hon. J. W. Lesesne.   Cases  
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