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Guerin v. Bagneries 9 La. 471, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.   Cases  
Guerrier v. Lambeth 9 La. 339, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.   Cases  
Hampton's Heirs v. Barrett 9 La. 336, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.   Cases  
Handy v. Parkison 10 La. 92, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING.   Cases  
Hart v. Hill 1 Whart. 124, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (January 22, 1836) 1836 This case brings into the consideration of the court, a species of property, relating to which, we have not many decisions. Fisheries for shad and herring have, however, existed from a very early period; and though we have no act of Assembly expressly creating the right, yet we have acts regulating, and in some respects, restraining it, of an early...   Cases  
Hayes v. Goode 7 Leigh 452, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (April 01, 1836) 1836 (Absent Brooke, J.) A testator devised a tract of land to trustees, in trust to convey the same to a particular grandson, son of testator's son W. B. on his attaining the age of 21, and in case of his death before that age without leaving issue, to convey the same to any afterborn son of W. B. who might then be the oldest surviving son, on his...   Cases  
Hazard v. Irwin 18 Pick. 95, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (March 01, 1836) 1836 Much of the argument on the part of the plaintiff, is founded, we think, on a misapprehension of the force and effect of the plea. The argument is, that whether the defendants, upon the facts shown, are to be deemed either sureties or guarantors, in either character they are strangers to the contract of purchase and sale between the plaintiff and...   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Henderson v. Vaulx 18 Tenn. 30, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1836) 1836 John Henderson, late of the county of Rutherford, in the state of Tennessee, on September 13, 1833, duly made and published his last will and testament, and in that year departed this life. This will directs that all his just debts shall be paid, and adds, after which, I give and dispose of my property, both personal and real, in the...   Cases  
Henry v. Bollar 7 Leigh 19, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (January 01, 1836) 1836 And PER CURIAM, Decree affirmed.   Cases  
Hickman v. Cantrell 17 Tenn. 172, Supreme Court of Tennessee (March 01, 1836) 1836 Two questions arise for consideration in this case: 1. Is the transaction between complainant and defendant a mortgage, or a purchase with liberty to repurchase? By the common law all estates which were created defeasible by the payment of money on a particular day by the vendors were held to be estates upon condition, and, if the day appointed for...   Cases  
Hite v. State 17 Tenn. 198, Supreme Court of Tennessee (March 01, 1836) 1836 This record presents a piece of patchwork and confusion. It shows that on the 24th day of November, 1835, Andrew Hays, the attorney general for the 7th solicitorial district in the state of Tennessee, preferred a bill of indictment against the prisoner for stealing three several bank-notes of the denomination of five dollars each, the property of...   Cases  
Hoffman v. Gold 8 G. & J. 79, Court of Appeals of Maryland (June 01, 1836) 1836 The only question brought before this court by the record, is, whether the Orphans' court under the circumstances of this cause, should have passed the decree ordering letters to be delivered to the appellee. In the view we have taken of the cause, it will be entirely unnecessary to decide upon the right of The Charitable Marine Society, to be...   Cases  
Hogan v. Foison 35 U.S. 160, Supreme Court of the United States (January 01, 1836) 1836 IN error to the district court of the United States, for the southern district of Alabama. This case was argued by Coxe for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Key for the defendant. After the argument, the court, on inspecting the record, became satisfied that the amount in controversy between the parties, was not sufficient to give the plaintiff a...   Cases  
Hooper v. Pair 3 Port. 401, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1836) 1836 The first question presented by the record, in this case, is, has the claimant a right, upon the trial of the right to property, to prove that the judgment of the plaintiff in execution, had been fraudulently obtained by him? Into the comptency of such evidence to procure any remedy which the common law or Chancery might have afforded to the...   Cases  
Hutchings v. Field 10 La. 237, Supreme Court of Louisiana (September 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE jUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING.   Cases  
Hutchings v. Johnson's Heirs 10 La. 245, Supreme Court of Louisiana (September 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING.   Cases  
Inhabitants of Franklin v. Inhabitants of Dedham 18 Pick. 544, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (November 01, 1836) 1836 If, in order to show that a person was prevented from gaining a settlement in a town, by being warned to leave within one year after he came to reside there, pursuant to St. 4 W. & M. c. 13, and St. 12 & 13 Will. 3, c. 10, it be proved merely, that such a warrant was issued, served and returned to the Court of Sessions, it cannot be presumed, in...   Cases  
Irby v. Wilson 1 Dev. & Bat.Eq. 568, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1836) 1836 Where a marriage was solemnized in South Carolina, between persons resident there, and the parties afterwards removed to, and acquired a domicil in Tennessee, from whence the wife removed to this state, it was held, that a decree dissolving the marriage, made by a Court in Tennessee, upon the petition of the husband, exhibited six years after the...   Cases  
Jackson v. Inabnit 2 Hill Eq. 411, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (April 01, 1836) 1836 The Chancellor who pronounced the circuit decree, being in full possession of the whole case, has decided all the questions fairly involved in it. His decision leads to the conclusion that the plaintiffs' bill should be dismissed, and we concur in this conclusion. Whilst it was proper for him to decide on all the grounds taken below, it is not...   Cases  
Jenkins v. Picket 17 Tenn. 480, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1836) 1836 This case has been submitted to the consideration of a jury on two occasions in the court below. On the first a verdict was rendered for the defendant in error for the sum of four hundred and forty dollars, which was set aside and a new trial granted; on the second, for the sum of two hundred dollars, for which judgment was given, to reverse which...   Cases  
Jones' Heirs v. Perry 18 Tenn. 59, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1836) 1836 1. The first and principal question to be considered in this case is as to the constitutionality of the act of the legislature under which the defendants claim title. The act of 1825, ch. 154, enacted upon the application of the guardians of the complainants, authorized said guardians to sell the tract of land in controversy for the purpose of...   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Jones v. Ward 18 Tenn. 160, Supreme Court of Tennessee (December 01, 1836) 1836 The bill in this cause was filed by the legatees of Peter Jones, deceased, against E. Ward, the executor, praying for an account and for a decree against the executor for such sum as may be found due to them. The account was ordered and was taken in the court below, exceptions were filed to it by both complainants and defendant, a decree was...   Cases  
Justices of Hyde County v. Bell 1 Dev. & Bat. 475, Supreme Court of North Carolina (June 01, 1836) 1836 Upon the proper construction of those parts of the act of 1762 (Rev. ch. 69,) intended to provide at the instance of the sureties, for the removal of a guardian or for the indemnity of the sureties by counter-security or a new bond as guardian with other sureties; and upon the effect of any one of those several orders, if made by the County Court,...   Cases  
Kelso v. Beaman 10 La. 450, Supreme Court of Louisiana (October 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING.   Cases  
Kercheval v. Ambler 4 Dana 166, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 09, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR MASON COUNTY. Statement of the case. At the same term of the same court, Forman obtained a judgment of eviction against John Kercheval and his two sons (Lewis C. Kercheval and Franklin Kercheval;) and Ambler, in a separate action of ejectment, obtained a similar judgment against John Kercheval alone, for a part of the...   Cases  
Keys v. Powell 9 La. 572, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING.   Cases  
King's Adm'r v. Walton 3 Port. 289, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1836) 1836 This is a judgment upon a bond, given for a claim of property taken in execution. The proceeding below, was by motion under the statute. The bond was given before the passage of the act of 1828, on that subject, and the judgment is for the amount of the whole judgment in the original suit, on the return of the sheriff, that a part of the property...   Cases  
Kinnaird v. Williams' Adm'r 8 Leigh 400, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (July 01, 1836) 1836 (Absent Brooke and Cabell, J.) Where the will of a testator devises away land belonging to another person, and gives a legacy to that person, he cannot claim the benefit of the legacy, after asserting his right to the land and recovering it from the devisee. Though a legatee under a will which devises away property belonging to him, elect to retain...   Cases  
Knight v. Wall 2 Dev. & Bat. 125, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1836) 1836 Where a legacy is given to a described class of individuals, as to the children of A. B., and no period is assigned for the distribution of it, the persons answering this description, at the death of the testator--that is, the children of A. B., then in existence, or legally considered as then in existence--are alone entitled to the bequest. But...   Cases  
Macarty v. Bond's Adm'r 9 La. 351, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH OF ASCENSION.   Cases  
Marfield v. Davidson 8 G. & J. 209, Court of Appeals of Maryland (December 01, 1836) 1836 Where a party had offered evidence, without objection of the consideration, amount, dates, and times of payment of two promissory notes, (not before the court) and then proposed to prove, that they had been surrendered to the drawer, the one upon being paid, and the other upon being substituted by two other notes given in lieu of it; upon objection...   Cases  
Marie Louise v. Marot 9 La. 473, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.   Cases  
McBroom v. Governor 4 Port. 90, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1836) 1836 This was an action of debt, in the name of the Governor, for the use of Rives, against the plaintiffs in error, on a bond, as securities of William McBroom, late sheriff of Madison County. The declaration sets out the bond and condition, and assigns as a breach, that the sheriff, by the hands of one William Saunders, his deputy, received...   Cases  
McCauley v. Heriot Ril.Eq. 19, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (April 01, 1836) 1836 In this case, we are satisfied with the decree of the Chancellor, which is therefore affirmed. JOHN B. O'NEALL, HENRY W. DESAUSSURE, DAVID JOHNSON, J. S. RICHARDSON, B. J. EARLE, WM. HARPER, A. P. BUTLER, JOSIAH J. EVANS.   Cases  
McCauley v. Heriot Ril.Eq. 22, Court of Appeals of Equity of South Carolina (April 01, 1836) 1836 This is an appeal from the decision of Chancellor DeSaussure, upon the report of Mr. Commissioner Cohen. No grounds of appeal have been set down, but we learn from the argument of the defendant's solicitor, the objections taken to the decree. They relate entirely to the exclusion of the receipts offered by the defendant. The complaint is, that they...   Cases  
McDonough v. Gravier 9 La. 531, Supreme Court of Louisiana (May 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
McGowan v. State 17 Tenn. 184, Supreme Court of Tennessee (March 01, 1836) 1836 The first enquiry arising upon this record is, Did the circuit court err on the trial in putting to the prisoner as competent jurors, and imposing upon him the necessity of accepting or challenging peremptorily, Joseph Link, Charles J. F. Wharton, Anderson Tucker, and Matthew Barrow, all of whom stated that they had formed opinions of the guilt or...   Cases  
McLearn v. Wallace 35 U.S. 625, Supreme Court of the United States (January 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Georigia. Archibald McLearn, a native of Scotland, and afterwards a citizen of the United States, purchased a tract of land called Gowrie, and a small island, in Chatham county, in the state of Georgia, on which he established a rice plantation; and having paid part of the...   Cases  
McLeod v. Tutt 1 Howard 288, High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi (January 01, 1836) 1836 Where a false and fraudulent warranty constitute the gist of the action, it is not necessary to prove a scienter. By electing to sue in tort on a false warranty a party does not change the nature of his proof.   Cases  
McRae v. McLean 3 Port. 138, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1836) 1836 This was an action of debt, brought by the defendant in error, in the Circuit Court of Autauga county, against the plaintiffs in error, upon a replevy bond in an original attachment, by the plaintiffs in error, as securities of Thomas J. Augustin, whose good were attached at the instance of one Isaac C. Watson, for whose use this suit was brought....   Cases  
Millaudon v. Cajus 9 La. 306, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.   Cases  
Miller v. Shackleford 4 Dana 264, Court of Appeals of Kentucky (June 16, 1836) 1836 FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR FAYETTE COUNTY. Parties and their titles. This ejectment was brought by Rachel Shackleford, to recover land in the possession of Miller and Ross, claiming under deeds from William Barnett, to whom it had been conveyed by Bennett C. Shackleford, deceased, late husband of the plaintiff, by the same deed which was before...   Cases  
Miller v. Thompson 3 Port. 196, Supreme Court of Alabama (January 01, 1836) 1836 I will first examine the subject, in reference to the cases, in which the Millers are the claimants, and the other so far, only, as the same principles are equally applicable to itleaving out of view, for the present, the effect of the mariage, on the latter. The inquiry is presented, whether it is competent for a father, who is a debtor at...   Cases  
Montgomery v. Russell 10 La. 330, Supreme Court of Louisiana (October 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING.   Cases  
Montreuil v. Pierre 9 La. 356, Supreme Court of Louisiana (April 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF PROBATES FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.   Cases  
Morgan v. Crabb 3 Port. 470, Supreme Court of Alabama (June 01, 1836) 1836 In this case, Crabb, one of the defendants in error, had in his hands the sum of one thousand dollars, as a trustee of the estate of one Richard Dennis, sen. deceased: to which each of the other defendants, and the plaintiff in error, made a distinct and exclusive claim. For the purpose of compelling these persons, one of whom, was the...   Cases The case or administrative decision is no longer good law for at least one of the points it contains.
Morris v. Abat 9 La. 552, Supreme Court of Louisiana (June 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT.   Cases The case or administrative decision has some negative history, but has not been reversed or overruled.
Neely v. Torian 1 Dev. & Bat.Eq. 410, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1836) 1836 The plaintiff founds his claim to relief, not on the ground of the specific execution of a contract respecting the sale of a tract of land, but on the ground that the defendant has taken an unconscientious advantage of the plaintiff, in getting his land at a price below its value, and below what it would have commanded had not competition at the...   Cases  
Newby v. Skinner 1 Dev. & Bat.Eq. 488, Supreme Court of North Carolina (December 01, 1836) 1836 Where a testator directs land to be sold and the proceeds divided, it is not a conversion of the land into personalty out and out, but merely the appointment of a mode of division; and those entitled to the purchase-money take as devisees; and the money is not subject to the payment of debts until the personal estate is exhausted. WILLIAM LAYDEN...   Cases  
Nichols v. Alsop 10 La. 407, Supreme Court of Louisiana (October 01, 1836) 1836 APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING.   Cases  
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