New York Court of Appeals, 1865

201 opinions

Patrick Higgins, Respondent, v. Hiram Reynolds and Samuel Donaldson, Appellants 1865-01
Ziba A. Leland, Appellant, v. Charles Cameron et al., Respondents 1865-01
Theoderic Gage v. Simon L. Brewster et al. 1865-01
Mary Elliott v. Thomas Gibbons 1865-01
The British Commercial Life Insurance Company v. The Commissioners of Taxes and Assessments in New York 1865-01
Thomas Darlington v. The Mayor, &c., of the Ctty of New York 1865-01
James S. Carpenter v. James C. Willett, &c 1865-01
George Rinchey, Respondent, v. Burdett Stryker, Appellant 1865-01
The Board of Commissioners of Pilots, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Defendant and Respondent 1865-01
Albert Smith, Respondent, v. Robert Paton, Appellant 1865-01
Alfred Booth, Respondent, v. Jeremiah S. Bunce et al., Appellants 1865-01
Barbara Klein and Joseph Myer, Plaintiffs in Error, v. The People, Defendants in Error 1865-01
Henry M. Strong et al. v. The Sun Mutual Insurance Company 1865-01
Benjamin F. Metcalf et al. v. Burdett Stryker 1865-01
Bethilda Glass, Respondent, v. Benjamin McAllister, Jr., Appellant 1865-01
George L. Brown, Executor, &c., of Charles Burrall, deceased, Respondent, v. George A. Leavitt and others, Appellants 1865-01
Lyman Wolcott and Wife v. Friend Holcomb and Charles P. Holcomb 1865-01
The Pennsylvania Coal Company v. The President, Managers, &c., of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company 1865-01
Almere Walker v. Nicholas H. Caywood et al. 1865-01
Ziba Leland, Appellant, v. Charles Cameron, Executor, and William E. Bidwell et al., Respondents 1865-01
Horatio N. Tuthill et al., Appellants, v. Ira Tracy et al., Respondents 1865-01
George M. Chapman, Executor of Eunice Chapman, deceased, v. John W. Brooks and others 1865-01
George Thurst v. William H. West 1865-01
The Marine Bank of the City of New York, Respondents, v. Nelson Clements, Appellant 1865-01
Hart F. Pease, Appellant, v. Jacob Christ, Respondent 1865-01
William T. Graff, Receiver, &c., Appellant, v. Patience Bonnett and others, Executors, &c., of Peter Bonnett, deceased, Respondents 1865-01
Samuel N. Dodge v. Juliana Gardiner 1865-01
Emanuel Bidenlac, Appellant, v. James E. Smith et al., Respondents 1865-01
Winter S. Bond v. James S. Willett 1865-01
Thomas A. Weed, Plaintiff in Error, v. The People, &c., Defendants in Error 1865-03
Alonzo Doty and Charles N. Button v. William Carolus 1865-03
James H. McWilliams, Respondent, v. John M. Mason, Appellant 1865-03
Warren Ackley and Demarias Ackley, Appellants, v. Levi Tarbox and another, Respondents 1865-03
Barber G. Buel v. The New York Central Railroad Company 1865-03
William G. Sands, Receiver, &c., Respondent, v. Morris N. Campbell, et al., Appellants 1865-03
William S. Holmes, Respondent, v. Alanson Carley, Appellant 1865-03
Samuel J. Underhill v. George G. Johnson, and others. Two actions; Samuel J. Underhill v. Richard F. Blydenburgh. Four actions. The six actions are now entitled; George G. Johnson and Amos F. Bingham, Appellants, v. William Judson Blydenburgh, Executor, and others, Respondents 1865-03
Retire F. Crocker v. Stephen Crocker and others 1865-03
Joan Boyce and others, Respondents, v. Jesse Brookway, Appellant 1865-03
William Murray, Appellant, v. Michael Walker, Respondent 1865-03
Thomas Roberts, Appellant, v. James Donnell et al., Respondent 1865-03
Orestes Hubbard v. Samuel S. Briggs 1865-03
James W. Elwell and others, Appellants, v. Moses Chamberlin, Jr., Respondent 1865-03
Anson Doolittle, Respondent, v. John W. Dininny, Appellant 1865-03
The New York Exchange Company, Respondent, v. David R. De Wolf, Appellant 1865-03
Wm. White, Respondent, v. James M. Nellis, Appellant 1865-03
Leonard Kirby et al. v. Patrick Fitzgerald; Delaware and Hudson Canal Company v. The Same 1865-03
Sylvanus Burnham, Appellant, v. Jason Butler and others, Respondents 1865-03
Bank of Salina v. Thomas G. Alvord 1865-03
Abraham R. B. Moses, Respondent, v. Moritz Bierling et al., Appellants 1865-03
Thomas Van Buskirk v. Marshall O. Roberts 1865-03
James Salter v. Daniel H. Ham and Obadiah Holmes, impleaded with others 1865-03
In the matter or the Petition of the Trustees of the New York Protestant Episcopal Public School, on the application of Charles H. Davis, Jr., Joseph Bresley, Robert Somerville, James B. Warden 1865-03
Elmore P. Ross v. Hiram C. Curtiss 1865-03
James B. Dayton, Receiver, &c., v. John B. Borst, Appellant 1865-03
Daniel Blauvelt, Respondent, v. William W. Woodworth, Appellant 1865-03
Norris Matthews v. John R. Rice 1865-03
Douglass W. Williams, Respondent, v. Sarah Townsend, Appellant 1865-03
Michael Kenny v. The People 1865-03
Sherman B. Burns, Respondent, v. Henry C. Bryant, Appellant 1865-03
Johh Lounsbery, Respondent, v. Jacob L. Snyder and James H. Vandemark, Appellants 1865-03
James Parker, Jr., and Thomas Wright v. The City of Syracuse 1865-03
The People of the State of New York and Barnabas Osborn and Josiah Albertson, Jr., Plaintiffs, v. Ira B. Tuthill, David Billard and Chauncey W. Tuthill, Defendants 1865-03
Edward C. Wilcox, Respondent, v. William Hawley and Abram H. Cuyler, Appellants 1865-03
Richard E. Mount, Jr., Executor, &c., Respondent, v. John Mitchell and Abraham Cummings, Appellants 1865-03
Oliver Bascom and others, Respondents, v. Lewis E. Smith, Appellant 1865-03
Duncan McDougall v. Jeremiah Cooper 1865-03
Harmon Edmunds, Sheriff of Otsego County, v. Russell P. Barton 1865-03
John McIntyre and others, Appellants, v. Benjamin Clapp, Respondent 1865-03
Abram M. Benton v. Stanley Martin 1865-03
Theodore P. Sheldon et al. v. Daniel Chapman and Chas. Demmon 1865-03
Jacob Bakeman v. Absalom Talbot 1865-03
Milton St. John, Appellant, v. John P. Roberts and Sylvester Lay, Respondents 1865-03
George W. Smith, Receiver, v. Robert Beattie 1865-03
Martin B. Scott, Respondent, v. Wm. T. Rogers, impleaded with George W. Rogers, Appellant 1865-03
Jesse W. Benedict v. The Ocean Insurance Company 1865-03
Merlin Jackson, Receiver of the Union Insurance Company, v. Abner S. Roberts and Hollis D. Perkins 1865-03
James W. Cyphers, Plaintiff in Error, v. The People of the State of New York, Defendants in Error 1865-03
John Becker v. Cyrenius C. Torrance 1865-03
McCartney v. Bostwick 1865-03
James Stephens, Appellant, v. Chas. A. Wider, Respondent 1865-03
Sarah A. Stinson, Administratrix, &c., of Poplin Stinson, Respondent, v. The New York Central Railroad Company, Appellant 1865-03
Marcus P. Woodruff, Executor, &c., Respondent, v. Charles E. McGrath et al., Appellants 1865-03
Charles G. Miller, Respondent, v. Orrin Lockwood, Sherriff, &c., Appellant 1865-03
The People v. Hugh Kennedy 1865-03
Chester Field v. The New York Central Railroad 1865-03
Emily Mead, Administratrix of David Mead, Jr., deceased, Respondent, v. William A. Bunn, Appellant 1865-03
The President, Directors and Company of the Third Great Western Turnpike Road Company, Appellants, v. Edwin D. Loomis, Respondent 1865-03
Edward M. Townsend, Appellant, v. Thomas G. Stearns, Respondent 1865-03
HANNAH TOBIAS, Respondent, v. HENRIETTA KETCHUM and others, Appellants 1865-03
Aaron H. Cronkite and Charles Cronkite v. Henry Wells, President of American Express Company 1865-03
Edwin G. Stiles and Ephram Lockwood v. Henry T. Howland and John H. Philips, Survivors, &c., of Abner Loveland 1865-03
Charles Petersen v. The Chemical Bank 1865-03
The People ex rel. Bartlett v. The Medical Society of the County of Erie 1865-03
John A. Lipe v. Peter O. Eisenlerd 1865-03
Charles Dimon, Receiver &c., v. William H. Hazard and William H. Hazard, Jr 1865-03
Marie L. C. Damainville and another v. Abijah Mann, Jr.; Mathilde A. D. Arrican and others v. Abijah Mann, Jr.; The Same v. The Same 1865-03
Roswell S. Benedict and others, Appellants, v. E. H. Huntington and others, Respondents 1865-03
Amos Pettit and others, Appellants, v. Orson Shepard, Respondent 1865-03
Robert McKee, Plaintiff in error, v. The People, &c., Defendants in error 1865-03
Hosea Wood v. Catherine Seely and Abel Seely 1865-03
George W. Patterson, Jr., v. Jonathan Brown and Horace G. Phelps, Recr, &c., impld with Harriet A. Lombard 1865-03
Johanna Bell and Margaret Hinchman, Administratrices of Charlotte S. Earle, deceased, Appellants, v. Oliver H. Day, Daniel Fletcher and Abraham Witmire, Respondents 1865-03
John A. Lipe v. Peter O. Eisenlerd 1865-03
Peter P. Demarest, Appellant, v. Martha Darg, Respondent 1865-03
The East River Bank, Respondents, v. Anson B. Hoyt and others, Appellants 1865-03
The Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New York v. The Second Avenue Railroad Company 1865-03
Charles H. Walter, Plaintiff in Error, v. The People, Defendants in Error 1865-03
Same v. Anson D. Ellis 1865-06
Bank of Salina v. Alvord 1865-06
Shaler & Hall Quarry Co. v. Brewster 1865-06
James S. Thomas, Appellant, v. Thomas Murray and others, Respondents 1865-06
Henry J. Wright, Respondent, v. Richard A. Storrs and another, Appellants 1865-06
The Farmers Bank of Saratoga Co., Appellant, v. Joshua Maxwell 1865-06
Samuel T. Champney, Administrator, &c., of Mary Champney, deceased, Appellant, v. David Coope and others, Respondents 1865-06
Francis Dunlevy and Willis Robbins, Administrators of Elias Fassett, deceased, Respondents, v. Samuel W. Tallmadge, impleaded with Henry C. Bowers et al. Appellants 1865-06
George S. Vosburgh, Respondent, v. William B. Teator and Andrew Teator, Appellants 1865-06
The People ex rel. A. Oakey Hall v. The Board of Supervisors of New York 1865-06
The Bank of the State of New York v. Jacob W. Vanderhorst 1865-06
Joseph B. Enos and others, Respondents, v. George L. Eigenbrodt and others, Appellants 1865-06
John C. Winans et al., Appellants, v. Corbet Peebles et al., Respondents 1865-06
John S. Dygert, Respondent, v. George Remerschnider and Catharine Remebschnider, impld, &c., Appellants 1865-06
The People of the State of New York, Respondents, v. James W. Booth and others, impleaded, &c., Appellants 1865-06
David Magee, Executor of David Magee, decd, v. Abner Osborn, impleaded with Joseph Naylor and Richard Calrow, Jr 1865-06
Belfast and Angelica Plank Road Company, Respondents, v. Cal. T. Chamberlain et al., Appellants 1865-06
William Willis v. The People 1865-06
The People of the State of New York, Appellants, v Hiram W. Bostwick and others, Respondents 1865-06
Duncan McGregor v. James McGregor 1865-06
The People of the State of New York, Respondents, v. Charles C. Pinckney, James W. Booth, Martin B. Brown and Philip W. Engs, Appellants 1865-06
Wood v. Poughkeepsie Mutual Insurance Co 1865-06
Thomas L. Braynard v. Eli Hoppock 1865-06
Theodore Yates, Plaintiff in Error, v. The People of the State of New York, Defendants in Error 1865-06
The Same v. Samuel L. Watson 1865-06
The People of the State of New York, on the relation of Josiah W. Brown, Appellants, v. Christian B. Woodruff, Respondent 1865-06
Hoffman & Place v. Ætna Fire Insurance Co 1865-06
Metcalf & Bull, Respondents, v. Mattisons, Appellant 1865-06
John G. Lawrence v. Anthony F. Cambpell 1865-06
Mount v. Mitchell 1865-06
James Callanan, Jr., v. James Edwards, Receiver of National Bank of Albany, Moses T. Clough and Manufacturers Bank of Troy 1865-06
Samuel Brabin v. Milton A. Hyde 1865-06
The Monterey, Coopers Plains, Painted Post and Corning Plank Road Company v. Phite Chamberlain, exr, &c., of Curtis J. Chamberlain, decd 1865-06
Job Andrew v. Thomas W. Newcomb and William Wells, Sheriff, &c 1865-06
John S. Wright, Respondent, v. William H. Holbrook, Executor, and Elizabeth T. Holbrook, Executrix, of Darius B. Holbrook, deceased, Appellants 1865-06
Nathaniel Smith and another, Executors, &c., of Jonathan Smith, Appellants, v. The Mechanics and Traders Fire Insurance Company, Respondents 1865-06
Frances A. Brown, by her next friend, Respondent, v. The New York Central Railroad, Appellant 1865-06
Walsh v. Washington Marine Insurance Company 1865-06
Henry D. Brookman et al., Respondents, v. Benjamin Metcalf, Appellant 1865-06
Fanny Springsteen, Administratrix, and Simon C. Springsteen, Administrator, &c., Respondents, v. Henry A. Samson and Susan M. H. Springsteen, Administrators, &c., Appellants 1865-06
John H. Mills and Isaac M. Dean v. The City of Brooklyn 1865-06
The People of the State of New York, Respondents, v. Charles C. Pinckney, James W. Booth, Martin B. Brown and Philip W. Engs, Appellants 1865-06
Washington D. Merritt et al. v. Lonis Walsh et al 1865-06
The People, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Johh Bransby, Defendant in Error 1865-06
Moses White, Patrick Scott, Richard Hennessey, William Harty, John OBrien and John French, Plaintiffs in Error, v. The People of the State of New York, Defendants in Error 1865-06
James Savage et al., Appellants, v. Rockwell Putnam et al., Respondents 1865-06
Luther Wright, President of Luther Wrights Bank, Respondent, v. Henry M. Ames and others, Appellants 1865-06
William G. Sands, Receiver, etc., of the Ætna Insurance Company, Appellant, v. Smith Shoemaker, Respondent 1865-06
George W. Nexsen and others, Appellants, v. William Nexsen, Executor, Respondent 1865-06
William Dorsheimer, Respondent, v. Asher P. Nichols, as Administrator of the goods and chattels of Aaron D. Patchin, deceased, impleaded with Isabella Patchin, Appellant 1865-06
The People ex rel. Wetmore and others, Respondents, v. The Board of Supervisors of the county of New York, Appellants 1865-06
The Supervisors of Onondaga County v. Leroy Morgan and others, Committee of Alfred Tyler, a Lunatic 1865-06
In the Matter of the Application of Robert Hollister and William Wilkinson, Appellants, v. The Hollister Bank of Buffalo, Respondent 1865-06
The Erie and New York City Railroad, Appellant, v. Richard Patrick, Respondent 1865-06
John Deyo, Appellant, v. New York Central Railroad Company, Respondents 1865-09
James M. Hutchins, Appellant, v. Russell Hebbard, Respondent 1865-09
The West River Bank, Respondent, v. James B. Taylor, impleaded, &c., Appellant 1865-09
George W. Pratt et al., Appellants, v. David S. Ogden et al., Respondents 1865-09
D. Lafayette Bartlett, Survivor, &c., Respondent, v. Eli Hoppock and Tunis Van Brunt, Appellants 1865-09
William A. Willard, Respondent, v. Evelina M. Bunting, Executrix, &c., Appellant 1865-09
John Wall, Respondent, v. Patrick Lee and another, Appellants 1865-09
Peter Lynch, Respondent, v. John Kennedy, Appellant 1865-09
Samuel Gardiner, Appellant, v. William C. Gardiner and others, Respondents 1865-09
Sylvester R. Hathaway, Appellant, v. Gideon R. Payne, Respondent 1865-09
Hallock Stillwell, Respondent, v. The New York Central Railroad Company, Appellant 1865-09
The New York and New Haven Railroad Company v. Robert Schuyler, Morris Ketchum, Edward Bement, et al. 1865-09
Morse and others, Respondents, v. Pesant and another, Appellants 1865-09
Abigail W. Eaton and others, Administrators, etc., of Josiah Eaton, deceased, v. John P. Alger, and Wilks S. Alger 1865-09
Marc Caussidiere v. George W. Beers 1865-09
Jeremiah Castle and Mary Ann Castle his wife, Respondents, v. Abraham Duryee, Appellant 1865-09
Samuel Downs, Appellant, v. Edgar Sprague and others, Respondents 1865-09
Gideon C. McClune, Appellant, v. Josiah H. Cain and others, Respondents 1865-09
William Baldwin, Respondent, v. The City of Oswego, Appellant 1865-09
De Witt C. Graham and others, Executors of David Graham, v. Peter Chrystal 1865-09
Abijah Mann, Jr., Appellant, v. Egbert H. Fairchild and Henry R. James, Executors, etc., Respondents 1865-09
Garret T. B. Fonda v. John B. Borst 1865-09
The Second Manhattan Building Association, v. Dennis Hayes and Wife 1865-09
Horatio N. Farnham, Respondent, v. Wheeler Hotchkiss, impleaded, etc., Appellants 1865-09
Samuel S. Thorn, Respondent, v. Jacob H. Helmer, Appellant 1865-09
William W. Hurlbert and others, Appellants, v. Delos W. Dean and others, Respondents 1865-09
Mary V. Stratton and others, by their Guardian, Respondents, v. Amelia Cornfield, Appellant 1865-09
Clarissa Forman, Respondent, v. Edwin H. Whitney and others, Executors, Appellants 1865-09
John Fallon, Plaintiff in Error, v. The People, Defendants in Error 1865-09
De Witt C. Halsted, Respondent, v. Jonas McChesney, Appellant 1865-09
Farmers Bank of Washington County, Respondent, v. Hugh R. Cowan, Sheriff of Washington County, Appellant 1865-09
John Fisk, Respondent, v. Robert B. Potter and others, Appellants 1865-09
Anthony McReynolds, Appellant, v. James Munns and Maria his wife, Eli P. Sherman, Loraine Freeman and Thomas Cockman, Respondents 1865-09
Joseph Fells, Respondent, v. Felicita Vestvali and Henry Vestvali, Appellants 1865-09
Abijah Mann, Jr., Appellant, v. Everard Palmer, Administrator, etc., Respondent; Same, Respondent, v. Same, Appellant 1865-09
Reuben R. Thompson, Appellant, v. William Menck, Respondent 1865-09
Morris S. Van Buskirk and others, Respondents, v. Joseph M. Warren and Charles W. Tillinghast, Appellants; Morris S. Van Buskirk, Edward P. Pickett, Jason C. Osgood, George T. Blair, Darwin Adams, Edward Ogden, Francis A. Fales, Isaac N. Haight, James L. Hatch, A. H. Wood, B. B. Woodbury and Horatio B. Sisson v. Hannibal Green 1865-09
Phillip J. Jetter, Respondent, v. The New York and Harlem Railroad Company, Appellants 1865-09
Thomas McSpedon and Charles W. Baker, Appellants, v. The Troy City Bank, Respondents 1865-09