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Kennedy V. Colclough |
67 S.C. 118, Supreme Court of South Carolina (7/13/1903) |
Appeal from Common Pleas Circuit Court of Sumter County; Klugh, Judge. Action by Richard Bertrand Kennedy and Leonidas Kennedy, by their guardian ad litem, against E. Bertrand Colclough. From the decree, the plaintiffs appeal. Affirmed. |
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Leach V. Burr |
188 U.S. 510, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 145 (2/23/1903) |
IN ERROR to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia to review a judgment which affirmed an order of the Supreme Court of the District admitting a will to probate. Affirmed. See same case below, 17 App. D. C. 128. The facts are stated in the opinion. |
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Martin V. State |
44 Tex.Crim. 538, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas (2/25/1903) |
Appeal from district court, Delta county; H. C. Connor, Judge. Brooks Martin was convicted of theft, and appeals. Reversed. |
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Mcgowan V. Moody |
22 App.D.C. 148, Court of Appeals of District of Columbia, Docket Number 1306 (6/2/1903) |
The COURT in the opinion stated the case as follows: This is an appeal from a judgment of the supreme court of the District, discharging a rule to show cause, on a petition for the writ of habeas corpus, and dismissing the said petition for want of jurisdiction. The petition was filed by George A. McGowan, a citizen of the State of California, on... |
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Moore V. Scott |
66 S.C. 283, Supreme Court of South Carolina (4/14/1903) |
Appeal from Common Pleas Circuit Court of Greenville County; Gary, Judge. Action by Samuel L. Moore against James Scott. From judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals. Affirmed. |
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Patterson V. Bingham |
101 Va. 372, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia (3/19/1903) |
Error to Circuit Court, King and Queen County. Action by Margaret Bingham against John Patterson. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendant brings error. Reversed. |
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Pope V. State |
137 Ala. 56, Supreme Court of Alabama (6/18/1903) |
Appeal from City Court of Gadsden; John H. Disque, Judge. Draper Pope was convicted of seduction, and appeals. Reversed. |
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Pope V. Williams |
98 Md. 59, Court of Appeals of Maryland (12/3/1903) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Montgomery County; James B. Henderson, Judge. Proceedings by William H. Pope against John M.C. Williams and another, constituting the board of registry of an election district in Montgomery county, to revise the action of the board in refusing to register petitioner as an elector. From a judgment dismissing the petition,... |
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Reynolds V. Board of Education of City of Topeka |
66 Kan. 672, Supreme Court of Kansas (4/11/1903) |
In Banc. Mandamus by William Reynolds against the Board of Education of the City of Topeka. Writ denied. |
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This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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Shriver V. Hering |
97 Md. 19, Court of Appeals of Maryland (4/1/1903) |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Anne Arundel County; I. Thomas Jones and Wm. H. Thomas, Judges. Mandamus by Robert Shriver against Joshua W. Hering, State Comptroller. From an order refusing the writ, petitioner appeals. Affirmed. |
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Smith V. State |
45 Tex.Crim. 405, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas (12/2/1903) |
Appeal from District Court, Grayson County; Rice Maxey, Judge. Robert Smith was convicted of murder in the first degree, and appeals. Reversed. Brooks, J., dissenting. |
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State V. Cole |
132 N.C. 1069, Supreme Court of North Carolina (5/19/1903) |
Appeal from Superior Court, Vance County; Winston, Judge. Joe Cole, Sr., was convicted of murder in the first degree, and appeals. Reversed. |
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State V. Tyson |
133 N.C. 692, Supreme Court of North Carolina (11/24/1903) |
Appeal from Superior Court, Pitt County; Ferguson, Judge. Simon Tyson was convicted of burning a barn and packing house, and appeals. Affirmed. Montgomery and Douglas, JJ., dissenting. |
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Tarrance V. State of Florida |
188 U.S. 519, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 202 (2/23/1903) |
IN ERROR to the Supreme Court of the State of Florida to review a judgment which affirmed a conviction in the Circuit Court of Escambia County of the crime of murder. Affirmed. See same case below, 30 So. 685. The facts are stated in the opinion. |
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The Roanoke |
189 U.S. 185, Supreme Court of the United States, Docket Number 123 (3/2/1903) |
APPEAL from the District Court of the United States for the District of Washington to review a decree enforcing a lien for labor and materials furnished to a contractor charged with the repair of a vessel. Reversed and remanded, with directions to dismiss the libel. |
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Thompson V. State |
45 Tex.Crim. 190, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas (5/27/1903) |
Appeal from District Court, Bexar County; John H. Clark, Judge. Earnest Thompson was convicted of rape, and appeals. Reversed. |
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Thompson V. State |
45 Tex.Crim. 397, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas (12/2/1903) |
Appeal from District Court, Bexar County; John H. Clark, Judge. Ernest Thompson was convicted of rape, and appeals. Affirmed. |
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U.s. V. Choctaw Nation |
38 Ct.Cl. 558, United States Court of Claims, Docket Number 23115 (4/27/1903) |
A bill in equity is filed by the United States requiring the defendants to come in and interplead concerning certain lands and funds in the possession of the complainants in which the Chickasaw freedmen claim an interest denied by the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations. They appear and interplead. |
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U.s. V. Hung |
126 F. 400, District Court, N.D. Ohio (12/17/1903) |
On the 3d day of October of this year one Hung Chang was arrested upon a warrant issued by John H. Simpson, United States Commissioner for the Northern District of Ohio, the basis for such warrant being the affidavit of Thomas P. H. O'Neill that, on or about the 3d day of October, A.D. 1903, at Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, in said... |
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This is no longer good law for at least one of the points of law it contains. |
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U.s. V. Lucius Beebe & Sons |
122 F. 762, Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit, Docket Number 452 (3/10/1903) |
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. For opinion below, see 117 Fed. 670. |
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U.s. V. Morris |
125 F. 322, District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Eastern Division (10/9/1903) |
On Demurrer to Indictment. |
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Weber V. Lane |
99 Mo.App. 69, St. Louis Court of Appeals, Missouri (2/17/1903) |
Appeal from circuit court, St. Louis county; J. W. McElhinney, Judge. Action by Theodore Weber against Dennis Lane and others. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendants appeal. Reversed. |
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Albert E. Pillsbury, Boston, February, 1902 |
A Brief Inquiry into a Federal Remedy for Lynching |
15 Harvard Law Review 707 (May, 1902) |
HAS the United States power to protect the lives of its citizens, or the lives of resident aliens to whom it owes protection, against mob violence within the states, if the states fail to protect them? Probably a majority of public men and constitutional lawyers, under prepossession of some abstract theory of the relations between the state and... |
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Adams V. Cronin |
29 Colo. 488, Supreme Court of Colorado (5/5/1902) |
Appeal from district court, Arapahoe county. Suit by Daniel Cronin against Frank Adams and others as the fire and policeboard of the city of Denver. From a decree for plaintiff, defendants appeal. Reversed. |
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This has some negative history but hasn’t been reversed
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Bradley V. District of Columbia |
20 App.D.C. 169, Court of Appeals of District of Columbia, Docket Number 1193 (5/20/1902) |
The COURT in the opinion stated the case as follows: Two informations in the police court charged Thomas Bradley, as the occupant of a building, with two distinct violations of the act of Congress of February 2, 1899, prohibiting the emission of a certain character of smoke from the chimneys of such buildings. The informations were tried together,... |
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Bradley V. Richardson |
62 S.C. 494, Supreme Court of South Carolina (2/22/1902) |
Appeal from common pleas circuit court of Barnwell; Hudson, Special Judge. Action by John R. Bradley and others against Jane Richardson and G. O. Riley. From an order sustaining a demurrer to second cause of action and granting a nonsuit as to the first cause of action, plaintiffs appeal. Affirmed. |
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Cox V. Lea's Heirs |
110 La. 1030, Supreme Court of Louisiana, Docket Number 14,050 (11/17/1902) |
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Walter Byers Sommerville, Judge. Action by Robert M. Cox and others against the heirs of W. O. Lea. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal. Modified. |
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Davis V. State |
69 S.W. 502, Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas (6/18/1902) |
Appeal from district court, Tarrant county; M. E. Smith, Judge. Lee Davis was convicted of assault with intent to commit rape, and appeals. Affirmed. |
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Dunham V. Harvey |
3 Cates 620, Supreme Court of Tennessee (6/12/1902) |
Appeal from chancery court, Shelby county; F. H. Heiskell, Chancellor. Ejectment bill by J. C. Dunham and others against Bridget Harvey and others. From a decree overruling a demurrer to the bill in part, defendants appeal. Modified. |
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Ex Parte Dickson |
4 Ind.T. 481, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory (10/25/1902) |
Appeal from the United States court for the Northern district of the Indian Territory; before Justice John R. Thomas, November 4, 1899. Petition for habeas corpus by John Dickson against the United States marshal for the Northern district of the Indian Territory. From an order denying the writ, petitioner appeals. Affirmed. Gill, C. J., dissenting. |
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