AuthorTitleCitationSummaryYearTypeKey Terms in Title or SummaryCase Status
  Forest Lawn Memorial Park Ass'n V. De Jarnette 79 Cal.App. 601, District Court of Appeal, Third District, California, Docket Number CIV. 3141 (11/3/1926) Appeal from Superior Court, Los Angeles County; George H. Cabaniss, Judge. Action by the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Association and another against Mrs. C. S. De Jarnette and husband. From a judgment for plaintiffs, the defendant named appeals. Affirmed. 1926 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Giles V. Kelly 162 La. 512, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 27940 (11/29/1926) Appeal from Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; W. Carruth Jones, Judge. Suit by Josephine Whitner Giles against Richard Kelly, in which defendant prayed for certain affirmative relief and Nelson Whitner and others intervened and prayed for the same relief. Judgment for the defendant and for the interveners, and... 1926 Cases    
  Greathouse V. Board of School Com'rs of City of Indianapolis 198 Ind. 95, Supreme Court of Indiana, Docket Number 25134 (3/31/1926) Appeal from Superior Court, Marion County; T. J. Moll, Judge. Action by Archie Greathouse against the Board of School Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis, a school corporation. Judgment for defendant on demurrer to the complaint, and plaintiff appeals. Transferred to Supreme Court pursuant to Burns' Ann. St. 1926, § 1351. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
  Hatfield V. Scaggs 101 W.Va. 425, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, Docket Number 5665-5671 (4/20/1926) Error to Circuit Court, Logan County. Election contests for county offices by Tennis Hatfield against Emmett F. Scaggs, by A. D. Cook against J. N. Schweitzer, by J. G. Hunter against Elmo Gore, by I. M. Conley against Simp Thompson, by Ira P. Hager against John Chafin, by Ernest Thompson against G. F. Gore, and by K. P. Nowlan against J. W.... 1926 Cases    
  Hedrick V. Marshall 282 S.W. 289, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas, Docket Number 9765 (2/20/1926) Appeal from District Court, Dallas County; E. E. Hurt, Special Judge. Suit by Albert Hedrick and another against Schuyler Marshall and another. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal. Reversed and rendered. 1926 Cases    
  Henson V. Johnson 117 Okla. 87, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Docket Number 16227 (3/23/1926) Commissioners' Opinion, Division No. 5. Appeal from District Court, Cherokee County; J. T. Parks, Judge. Action by Jesse Henson and others against James Johnson and others to recover their interests by right of inheritance in the allotment of Mary Johnson, deceased. Judgment for defendants. Plaintiffs appeal. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
  Herkness V. Irion 11 F.2d 386, District Court, E.D. Louisiana, Docket Number 18272 (3/6/1926) In Equity. Suit by J. Smylie Herkness against Vanentine K. Irion and others. Bill dismissed. 1926 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  In re Rahn's Estate 316 Mo. 492, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1, Docket Number 25818 (12/31/1926) Appeal from Circuit Court, Carroll County; Ralph Hughes, Judge. In the matter of the estate of Jacob Rahn, deceased. Petition by Hugo Mundt, Consul of Germany at St. Louis, against Robert G. Martin, executor of the last will and testament of Jacob Rahn, deceased. From an adverse order, the executor appealed to the circuit... 1926 Cases    
Edwin D. Dickinson, University of Michigan Law School Jurisdiction at the Maritime Frontier 40 Harvard Law Review 1 (November, 1926) THE maritime frontier presents some unique jurisdictional difficulties. The line cannot be visibly marked. Instead of a boundary setting off the territorial authority of one state from that of another, there is only an imaginary limit separating the so-called territorial seas from the seas which are free. If jurisdiction on the one side is... 1926 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Koch V. Harris 117 Okla. 172, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Docket Number 16657 (4/13/1926) Commissioners' Opinion, Division No. 5. Appeal from District Court, Creek County; Fred A. Speakman, Judge. Action by Ben F. Harris and others, taxpaying voters of School District No. 8 of Creek County, against Herb Koch and others, to restrain the issuance of certain school bonds. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants appeal. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
  Koch V. Johnson 30 Ariz. 14, Supreme Court of Arizona, Docket Number 2331 (3/1/1926) Suit by William F. Koch against Vance M. Johnson and others, as members and constituting the Board of Supervisors of Cochise County, and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
  Kusnetzky V. Security Ins. Co. 313 Mo. 143, Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2, Docket Number 25110 (2/26/1926) Appeal from Circuit Court, Jackson County; E. E. Porterfield, Judge. Separate petitions, consolidated for trial, by I. Kusnetzky against the Security Insurance Company, the Old Colony Insurance Company, and the Phenix Fire Insurance Company. From judgments for plaintiff against each of the defendants, defendants appeal. Judgments affirmed on... 1926 Cases    
  Land Development Co. Of Louisiana V. City of New Orleans 13 F.2d 898, District Court, E.D. Louisiana, Docket Number 18345 (7/8/1926) In Equity. Suit by the Land Development Company of Louisiana, Limited, against the City of New Orleans. On defendant's motions to dismiss. Bill dismissed. 1926 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Liberty Annex Corp. V. City of Dallas 289 S.W. 1067, Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas, Docket Number 9902 (12/4/1926) Appeal from District Court, Dallas County; Louis Wilson, Judge. Suit by the Liberty Annex Corporation against the City of Dallas and others. From a judgment dismissing the suit, plaintiff appeals. Reversed and remanded. 1926 Cases    
  Lincoln V. Christian 94 Pa.Super. 145, Superior Court of Pennsylvania (1/1/1926) For the second time the plaintiff has recovered a verdict against the defendant for money which she alleges he borrowed from her in an individual capacity and upon his own credit, although the written evidence of indebtedness held by plaintiff and produced at the trial was the judgment note of the Booker T. Washington Hospital Association of... 1926 Cases    
  Mercantile Banking & Trust Co. V. Showacre 102 W.Va. 260, Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (9/28/1926) Appeal from Circuit Court, Marshall County. Suit by the Mercantile Banking & Trust Company, executor of the will of Charles A. Showacre, deceased, against Addie Showacre and others, for the construction of a will. From the decree below, complainant appeals. Affirmed in part, and reversed in part. 1926 Cases    
  Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. V. Hyche 214 Ala. 447, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 6 DIV. 617 (3/18/1926) Appeal from Circuit Court, Tuscaloosa County; Fleetwood Rice, Judge. Action by Ethel Hyche against the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under Code 1923, § 7326. Reversed and remanded. 1926 Cases    
  Midkiff V. State 29 Ariz. 523, Supreme Court of Arizona, Docket Number 608 (2/17/1926) Harry Midkiff was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon, and he appeals. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
  Miles V. New Orleans Public Service, Inc. 3 La.App. 496, Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Parish of Orleans (3/1/1926) The plaintiff in this case, who was mercilessly beaten and assaulted while a passenger on a suburban street car near the City of New Orleans, sues the defendant carrier and its bondsman for damages in the sum of $5,000.00. From a judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiff has appealed. The act of negligence charged in the petition is that the... 1926 Cases    
  Mitchell V. State 105 Tex.Crim. 297, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Docket Number 10388 (11/10/1926) Appeal from District Court, Bexar County; W. W. McCrory, Judge. Siester Mitchell was convicted of assault with intent to murder, and he appeals. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
  Myers V. U.s. 272 U.S. 52, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 2 (10/25/1926) Mr. Justice McReynolds, Mr. Justice Brandeis, and Mr. Justice Holmes, dissenting. Appeal from Court of Claims. Suit by Lois P. Myers, administratrix of the estate of Frank S. Myers, against the United States. Judgment for defendant (58 Ct. Cl. 199), and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. 1926 Cases   This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains.
  Norman V. City Island Beach Co. 126 Misc. 335, Supreme Court, Appellate Term, New York, First Department (1/15/1926) Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Seventh District. Action by Conrad V. Norman against the City Island Beach Company, Inc. From a judgment dismissing his complaint after trial, plaintiff appeals. Reversed, and new trial ordered. 1926 Cases    
  Owens V. State 215 Ala. 42, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 6 DIV. 500 (4/1/1926) Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; W.E. Fort, Judge. Frank Owens was convicted of robbery, and he appeals. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
  People V. Jeans 79 Cal.App. 464, District Court of Appeal, Third District, California, Docket Number CR. 941 (10/11/1926) Appeal from Superior Court, Mendocino County; H. L. Preston, Judge. Albert Jeans was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
Felix Frankfurter, Thomas G. Corcoran, Harvard Law School Petty Federal Offenses and the Constitutional Guaranty of Trial by Jury 39 Harvard Law Review 917 (June, 1926) IN an age so exuberantly preoccupied with material forces and mechanical production as ours, thinking can hardly fail to become infected by mechanistic aims, even where difficulties are not removable by mechanics. And so we find the psychology of mass production and of meretricious advertising carried over to the subtleties of human relations. The... 1926 Law Review Articles and Other Secondary Sources    
  Pickett V. Kuchan 323 Ill. 138, Supreme Court of Illinois, Docket Number 17600 (10/28/1926) Action by Jessie Pickett against Charles Kuchan. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
  Powell V. Hargrove 136 S.C. 345, Supreme Court of South Carolina, Docket Number 12053 (8/16/1926) Appeal from Common Pleas Circuit Court of Dillon County; E. C. Dennis, Judge. Suit for injunction by E. L. Powell and others against Mrs. John N. Hargrove and others. From an order discharging a rule to show cause, and dismissing their petition for a restraining order, plaintiffs appealed, and also filed petition in the original jurisdiction of the... 1926 Cases   This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed or overruled.
  Sango V. Willig 119 Okla. 128, Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Docket Number 16678 (7/13/1926) Commissioners' Opinion, Division No. 1. Appeal from District Court, Okmulgee County; James Hepburn, Judge. Action by Emma Sango against William Willig to recover land. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
  Shilling V. State 143 Miss. 709, Supreme Court of Mississippi, Division B, Docket Number 25788 (10/11/1926) Appeal from Circuit Court, Bolivar County; W. A. Alcorn, Jr., Judge. J. R. Shilling was convicted of attempting to interfere with, to entice away, and to employ a laborer who had contracted with another, and he appeals. Reversed and rendered. 1926 Cases    
  Smith V. Kennedy 214 Ala. 427, Supreme Court of Alabama, Docket Number 8 DIV. 616 (4/15/1926) Appeal from Circuit Court, Tuscaloosa County; Henry B. Foster, Judge. Action for damages for personal injuries by Warren Kennedy against W.M. Smith. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Transferred from Court of Appeals under Code 1923, § 7326. Affirmed. 1926 Cases    
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