...plaintiff in error. Mr. Gua. A Jiredux for defendants in error. Opinion of the Court. MR. JUSTICE WOODS, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court. It is well settled in Louisiana that when a claim against a succession has been formally acknowledged...

...January 14, 1887. AP Mathews, for plaintiff in error. RS & CL Brown, for defendants in error. GREEN, J., after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court: The declaration in this case was in assumpsit, and it contained only the common counts, and was in proper...

...plaintiff in error. Mr. James Ryon and Mr. John W. Ryon for defendant in error. MR. JUSTICE LAMAR, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court. The first assignment of error is to the effect that the court below erred in rejecting the offer of the...

...Statement. Penn & Cocke, for the appellants. GW & LC Hansbrough, for the appellees. RICHARDSON, J., after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court. 1st. The first assignment of error is, that the bill attempts to set up a cotemporaneous parol agreement,...

...purchased with her means. MF Morris, for appellant. I, VD Heard, for appellees. Mr. Justice HARLAN, after stating the facts, in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court. It is not claimed, as it could not well be, that the writing executed by plaintiffs on Decembers, 1881,...

...GE Wallace, for defendant in error. Before PARDEE and SHELBY, Circuit Judges. PARDEE, Circuit Judge, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court. The first assignment of error, complaining of the refusal of the court below to instruct the jury at the...

...CHESTER H. KRUM, for Plaintiff in Error. GEO. D. REYNOLDS, for Defendant in Error. MR. JUSTICE HARLAN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court. 1. The court, against the objections of the defendant, permitted the plaintiff, testifying as a witness...

...decree dismissing the bill (28 Fed. Kep., 570) the plaintiff appealed to this Court. Mr. Justice BROWN, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the Court. The bill in this case was dismissed by the court below upon the ground either that the second claim of...

...equity has no power to do this ; and Congress cannot confer such power upon it. Mr. Justice BKKWER, after stating the facts in the foregoing language, delivered the opinion of the court. The case presented by the bill is this : The United States, finding that the interstate transportation...

...DEL1VERS THE OP1N1ON OF THE COURT. Mr. Justice Peckham, after stating the facts in the foregoing langmage, delivered the opinion of the court. The defendants...dismissal of the appeal is that the requisite amount (over one thousand dollars) is not in controversy in the suit, - tc - p and that as an appeal would only...