Term recap
October Term 1855 in review
Every writing the Court issued during October Term 1855, as we tracked it in real time: merits decisions with the Reporter's one-line holdings, cert-stage statements, and emergency applications.
93
Merits decisions
0
Cert-stage statements
0
Emergency applications
28
Decision days
The term's first merits decision came down December 18, 1855 and the last on May 18, 1856. The busiest single day was May 12, 1856 with 15 decisions.
Merits decisions, month by month
December 1855 · 8 decisions
January 1856 · 29 decisions
- Savignac v. Garrison
- United States v. Reading
- United States Ex Rel. MacKey v. Coxe
- United States v. Fremont
- Richards v. Holmes
- Griffith v. Bogert
- Jecker, Torre, & Co. v. Montgomery
- William J. McLean v. James L. Meek
- Isaac Hartshorn, in Error v. Horace H. Day
- Barnard's Heirs v. ASHLEY'S HEIRS
- Wright v. Mattison
- Bush v. Cooper's Administrator
- Minter v. Crommelin
- McCREADY v. GOLDSMITH
- United States v. Jones
- Curtis v. Petitpain
- Guild v. Frontin
- Parker v. Overman
- Jones v. Johnston
- Kissell v. Board of President and Directors of St. Louis Public Schools
- Edwin C. Little, and Oliver Scovill v. Levi W. Hall, Anthony Gould, David Banks, William Gould, and David Banks, Jr
- Craighead v. Wilson
- Ham v. Missouri
- Cooper v. Roberts
- Schooner Freeman, &C. v. Buckingham
- The Heirs of General Lafayette, in Error v. Joseph Kenton the Heirs of General Lafayette, in Error v. Edward C. Carter
- United States v. Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad
- James L. Calcote, in Error v. Frederick Stanton and Henry S. Buckner
- Poydras De La Lande's Heirs v. Treasurer of Louisiana
February 1856 · 16 decisions
- Sessions v. Pintard
- The Steamboat New York, &C. v. Rea, &C.
- McKinney v. Saviego
- Abbott Et Ux. v. Essex Company
- McLaughlin v. Swann
- The Ship Howard v. Wissman
- Shields v. Thomas
- Den Ex Dem. Murray v. Hoboken Land & Improvement Co.
- William D. Nutt, of Alexander Hunter, Deceased, in Error v. Philip H. Minor
- New York & Cumberland R. Co. v. Myers
- Ward v. Peck
- Kinsman v. Parkhurst
- Ransom v. Davis's Administrators
- LESSEE OF McCALL v. CARPENTER
- Orton v. Smith
- Stockton v. Ford
April 1856 · 13 decisions
- Connor v. Peugh's Lessee
- Ex Parte Wells
- Dodge v. Woolsey
- Joseph Wilkins v. David Allen
- Euphrosine Fouvergne v. The Municipality No. 2, of the City of New Orleans
- South v. Maryland Ex Rel. Pottle
- Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co.
- The Lafayette Ins. Co. v. FRENCH
- Stanford v. Taylor
- Greely's Administrator v. Burgess
- Amaron Ledoux v. John Black
- The Mechanics' and Traders' Bank, Branch of the State Bank of Ohio, in Errors v. Henry Debolt, Late Treasurer of Hamilton County
- Mechanics' and Trders' Bank v. Thomas
May 1856 · 27 decisions
- Pennsylvania v. Wheeling & Belmont Bridge Co.
- Solomon S. Masters v. Frederick L. Barreda
- Beauregard, &C. v. the City of New Orleans
- The Union Bank of Tennessee v. Jolly's Adm'rs.
- Stairs v. Peaslee
- Maria De La Solidad De Arguello and v. The United States. The United States v. Maria De La Solidad De Arguello
- The United States v. Cruz Cervantes
- United States v. Vaca
- United States v. Larkin
- A. Dennistoun & Co. v. Stewart
- Adam Ogilvie v. The Knox Insurance Company
- Crockett v. the Steamboat Isaac Newton
- Culbertson v. the Steamer Southern Belle
- The United States v. William G. Shackleford
- Conner v. St. John Elliott
- Bacon v. Robertson
- McMicken v. Perin
- Maxwell v. Newbold
- Watson v. Tarpley
- Hudgins v. Kemp, Assignee, &C.
- The Steamer Oregon v. Rocca
- Pease v. Peck
- Goslee v. Shute's
- Wood v. Davis
- United States v. Booth
- Ableman v. Booth
- Strader v. Graham
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