2. In Illinois, a will probated in Virginia is as available in proof as if pro-
bated in Illinois. Long v. Patton, 573.
District of Columbia. See STATUTE OF FRAUDS.
The mandate of this court in this case was fully complied with by the
Court of Claims. United States v. Atchison, Topeka &c. Railroad Co.,
A common day laborer in the employ of a railroad company, who, while
working for the company under the order and direction of a section
"boss" or foreman, on a culvert on the line of the company's road, re-
ceives an injury by and through the negligence of the conductor and
of the engineer in moving and operating a passenger train upon the
company's road, is a fellow-servant with such engineer and such con-
ductor, in such a sense as exempts the railroad company from liability
for the injury so inflicted. Northern Pacific Railroad Co. v. Hambly,
349.
See PUBLIC LAND, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1. The legislature of Iowa had power to authorize the city of Keokuk to
subscribe for and take stock in a railway company, to issue its bonds
therefor and to lay a tax to pay the interest thereon. Rogers v. Keo-
kuk, 546; Same v. Lee County, 547.
2. It had also power to give validity to bonds informally issued for such
purpose. Ib.
3. A plaintiff who purchases such bonds in the open market is not charge-
able with defects or irregularities in their issue. Ib.
1. The reissue of June 10, 1884, by which the patent of May 8, 1883, to
Joseph T. Dunham, for a combined tag and envelope, with an end
flap covering the side of the envelope, was so enlarged as to include an
envelope with a flap of any size or shape, is void. Dunham v. Dennison
Manufacturing Company, 103.
2. The patent of November 24, 1885, to Joseph T. Dunham, for an im-
provement in tag envelopes, with a flap so constructed that it can be
opened and the contents taken out without tearing the envelope or
removing or breaking the fastenings, is not infringed by an envelope
in which the flap is fastened down so that it cannot be opened with-
out injury, and the contents are taken out by opening a flap at the
opposite end of the envelope. Ib.
1. Dismissed by stipulation of counsel. The Niagara v. Van Pelt, 533.
2. A decree entered by consent of parties modifying the decree of the
court below. Coggeshall v. Hartshorn, 533.
3. It appearing that this cause was brought here for delay only, the court
dismisses it on motion of the defendant in error, and awards damages
at the rate of ten per cent a year. Watterson v. Payne, 534.
4. A motion made by the plaintiff in error after the entry of such judg-
ment to appear and for leave to file a brief comes too late. Ib.
5. Two records from the court below being docketed here in the same
case and one being heard and disposed of by decree of reversal, the
second is dismissed. United States v. Osio, 535.
6. The appellant was a proper party defendant in the court below, and
duly took his appeal. Connellsville & Southern Pennsylvania Railroad
v. Baltimore, 553.
7. The order assigning the case for hearing at this term is rescinded. Ib.
8. After a cause is at issue, and on the day when it is set for trial before
a jury, it is too late to take a peremptory exception that a partner
with plaintiff in the transaction sued on is not a party plaintiff. Bur-
bank v. Bigelow, 558.
9. An objection in an action at law that the matter of plaintiff's demand
is one of equitable cognizance in Federal courts cannot be taken for
the first time in this court. Ib.
10. A certified question is answered coupled with a statement that, through
subsequent legislation, it has ceased to be of any importance. United
States v. Stafford, 590.
11. This case is dismissed without an opinion, as no exceptions appear to
have been taken during the trial. Bank of New Orleans v. Caldwell, 592.
12. A judgment is entered according to the stipulation of the parties.
Woodman Pebbling Machine Co. v. Guild, 597.
13. A bill of exceptions cannot bring up the whole testimony for review
whether the case has been tried by the court, or by a jury. Betts v.
Mugridge, 644.
14. The refusal of a charge asked for which is wholly immaterial is no
ground for reversal. Bank of Montreal v. White, 669.
PRESCRIPTION.
See LOCAL LAW.
1. A loan was negotiated through a banker, who received the money from
the lender, and failed before the borrower called for it. Held, on the
facts disclosed by the proof, that he held it as the agent of the bor-
rower. Merriam v. Haas, 542.
2. B., who had transactions with the appellees who were bankers, delivered
to them his five promissory notes secured by mortgage. The appel-
lant was also a creditor of B. and had a claim upon the fund in the
appellees' hands. Held, (1) That the fact that the notes were in the
possession of the appellees raised a legal presumption that they were
their property; (2) that the weight of the evidence was in favor of
the position that the appellees were to be first paid before transferring
the notes to appellants. Finley v. Isett, 561.
See EXECUTOR AND ADMINISTRATOR.
1. By the grant of public land made to the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company by the act of July 2, 1864, c. 217, 13 Stat. 365, all mineral
lands other than iron or coal are excluded from its operation, whether
known or unknown; and all such mineral lands, not otherwise specially
provided in the act making the grant, are reserved exclusively to the
United States, the company having the right to select unoccupied and
unappropriated agricultural lands in odd sections, nearest to the line
of the road, in lieu thereof. Barden v. Northern Pacific Railroad Co.,
288.
2. Proceedings to obtain a Mexican grant in California commenced in
1845 and diligently prosecuted up to May, 1847, when judgment is
rendered in the applicant's favor, and title issues to him, are held to
be binding upon the United States, in the absence of fraud. United
States v. Olvera, 538.
3. A plat made in 1853 of land adjudged to be covered by a Mexican
grant, and confirmed in 1862, is sustained as the correct designation
of the property covered by the grant. United States v. De Haro, 544.
4. After a careful examination of the proof relating to the identity of the
appellants' ancestor with the grantee from the Mexican government,
the court affirms the judgment of the court below, without deciding
the questions of law. Hardy v. Harbin, 598.
5. The treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo had no relation to property within
the State of Texas. Basse v. Brownsville, 610.
6. When it does not appear that a grant from the Mexican Republic had
been deposited and recorded in the proper public office, among the
public archives of the republic, this court must decide adversely to a
claim under it. Berreyesa v. United States, 623.
1. A railroad company is bound to furnish sound machinery for the use of
its employés, and if one of them is killed in an accident caused by a
defective snow-plough, the right of his representative to recover dam-
ages therefor is not affected by the fact that some two weeks before
he was sent out with the defective machinery, he had discovered the
defect, and had notified the master mechanic of it, and the latter had
undertaken to have it repaired. Northern Pacific Railroad Co. v.
Babcock, 190.
2. Some alleged errors in the charge of the court below are examined and
held to have no merit. Ib.
3. If an assessing board, seeking to assess for purposes of taxation a part
of a railroad within a State, the other part of which is in an adjoining
State, ascertains the value of the whole line as a single property and
then determines the value of that within the State, upon the mileage
basis, that is not a valuation of property outside of the State; and the
assessing board, in order to keep within the limits of state jurisdic-
tion, need not treat the part of the road within the State as an inde-
pendent line, disconnected from the part without, and place upon that
property only the value which can be given to it if operated separately
from the balance of the road. Cleveland, Cincinnati,Chicago & St. Louis
Railway Co. v. Backus, 439.
4. Where an assessing board is charged with the duty of valuing a certain
number of miles of railroad within a State forming part of a line of
road running into another State, and assesses those miles of road at
their actual cash value determined on a mileage basis, this does not
place a burden upon interstate commerce, beyond the power of the
State, simply because the value of that railroad as a whole is created
partly and perhaps largely by the interstate commerce which it
is doing. Ib.
5. A railroad company which runs its line by telegraph, is bound to have
a suitable telegraph line, with a proper number of operators, and in
case of an accident it is for the jury to decide whether their duty in
this respect has been performed. Grand Trunk Railway Co. v. Walker,
653.
See COMMON CARRIER, 2;
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 3, 5;
MASTER AND SERVANT;
TAX AND TAXATION, 1, 2.
1. A French vessel leaving France for New Orleans in May, 1861, with
knowledge of the blockade, and obtaining full knowledge of the same
at the Bahamas, continued its voyage and attempted to enter that
port. Held, that it was subject to capture, and that so much of the
cargo as belonged to citizens of New Orleans was subject to condem-
nation as enemy's property, and so much as belonged to citizens of
New York to condemnation for illicit trading with the enemy.
United States v. Hallock, 537.
2. This court affirms after the close of the civil war, a judgment con-
demning a vessel and cargo for violation of the acts of July 13, 1861,
c. 3, and August 6, 1861, c. 60, in transferring goods from Alexandria
to a part of Virginia then in a state of insurrection. Duvall v. United
States, 548.
3. The liability of the maker of a note given for the purchase of slaves
before the civil war was not affected by their emancipation. Holmes
v. Sevier, 582.
The removal or appointment of a receiver rests in the sound discretion of
the court making the order, and is not revisable here. Milwaukee &
Minnesota Railroad v. Soutter, 540; Same v. Same, 541.
Part-performance of an oral contract for the conveyance of an interest in
real estate in the District of Columbia takes it out of the operation of
the statute of frauds, and authorizes a court of equity to decree a full
and specific performance of it, if proved. Riggles v. Erney, 244.
1. When a railroad runs into or through two or more States, its value, for
taxation purposes, in each is fairly estimated by taking that part of
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