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# Davis & Rankin Building & Manufacturing Company v. Barber/Opinion of the Court

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United States Supreme Court
157 U.S. 673
Davis & Rankin Building & Manufacturing Company v. Barber
This was an action brought against certain subscribers to a contract to recover damages for its breach. Defendants demurred, upon the grounds that the court had no jurisdiction over the subject-matter of the action, and that the complaint did not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against them. The demurrers were sustained, and judgment rendered in favor of defendants on June 28, 1892. The writ of error from this court was sued out February 16, 1894. It does not appear by the record, but is conceded by counsel, that a writ of error was taken to the circuit court of appeals for the Seventh circuit, and dismissed for want of jurisdiction. 9 C. C. A. 79, 60 Fed. 465. The jurisdiction of this court is invoked upon the ground that the only question in the case was as to the jurisdiction of the circuit court; but that question was not certified to this court by the circuit court for decision, and the writ of error must be dismissed, upon the authority of Maynard v. Hecht, 151 U.S. 314, 14 Sup. Ct. 353, and Colvin v. Jacksonville, 15 Sup. Ct. 634, and cases cited.
Writ of error dismissed.

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# Davis Sewing Machine Company of Delaware v. United States

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United States Supreme Court
273 U.S. 324
Davis Sewing Machine Company of Delaware v. United States
Argued: Jan. 6, 1927. --- Decided: Feb 21, 1927
Mr. Raymond M. Hudson, of Washington, D. C., for appellant.
The Attorney General, for the United States.
Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cookson, James

​COOKSON, JAMES (1752–1835), divine, was a native of Martindale, Westmoreland. He received his academical education at Queen's College, Oxford, as a member of which house he proceeded B.A. on 13 June 1781, and M.A. on 13 July 1786. Meanwhile he had been instituted, in September 1775, on his own petition, to the rectory of Colmer with Priors Dean, Hampshire, to which he was inducted the following October. He was also for many years curate of the neighbouring village of Steep, and about 1796 was presented to the vicarage of Harting, Sussex. Popular report says that he was put into the last-named living as a locum tenens only, and that when asked to resign he said ‘his conscience did not allow him to do so.’
Despite the cares of three parishes some miles apart, Cookson found time for writing. He published, first, ‘Thoughts on Polygamy, suggested by the dictates of Scripture, Nature, Reason, and Common-sense; with a description of Marriage and its obligations; a contemplation of our National System of Laws relative thereto; and particularly, an examination of 26 Geo. II, ch. 33, commonly called the Marriage Act. Including remarks on Thelyphthora [by the Rev. Martin Madan] and its scheme, with some hints for the prevention of Prostitution. … In two parts,’ 8vo, Winchester, 1782. His next work was ‘A New Family Prayer-Book. … Elucidated with explanatory notes and observations on an entire new plan,’ 8vo, Winchester, 1783 (3rd ed. 1786). This was followed by ‘The Universal Family Bible … illustrated with notes and observations,’ fol. London, 1784. Between the appearance of the last two works Cookson had become master of Churcher's College, Petersfield, at which place he died on 6 Jan. 1835, aged 83, and was buried on the 12th in the chancel of Colmer church. He was of eccentric habits, and is said once to have announced in church, ‘I have forgotten my sermon, but I will read you a true account of the battle of Waterloo.’ In 1814 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
[Hervey's Hist. of Colmer and Priors Dean, pp. 190–4; information from the vicar of Harting; Gent. Mag. 1835, iii. 441; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Watt's Bibl. Brit.]
G. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cooley, Thomas

​COOLEY, THOMAS (1740–1784), architect, was born in 1740 in England, and originally apprenticed to a carpenter. He obtained a premium at the Society of Arts in 1753, and in 1769 was the successful competitor for building the Royal Exchange in Dublin, which he completed in 1779, and continued to reside in Dublin. He also erected a tower to Armagh Cathedral, and the Newgate prison in Dublin; neither of these was a successful work. He was employed on several other public buildings in Dublin, but died in 1784 while engaged on the Four Courts, having only completed the western wing. From 1765 to 1768 he contributed architectural designs to the exhibitions of the Free Society of Artists.
[Redgrave's Dict. of English Artists; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880; Pasquin's Artists of Ireland; Catalogues of the Free Society of Artists.]
L. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cookesley, William Gifford

​COOKESLEY, WILLIAM GIFFORD (1802–1880), classical scholar, was born at Brasted in Kent on 1 Dec. 1802, and was educated at Eton and at King's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1825, M.A. in 1827. He was for many years one of the assistant masters at Eton. In 1857 he was appointed vicar of Hayton, Yorkshire, and became incumbent of St. Peter's, Hammersmith, in 1860, and rector of Tempsford, Bedfordshire, in 1868. He died on 16 Aug. 1880. His publications on classical subjects are: 1. ‘Selections from Pindar. With English Notes,’ 1838, 8vo. 2. ‘Pindari Carmina. Notas quasdam Anglice scriptas adjecit G.G.C.,’ 1844, &c., 8vo (another edition, ‘pars prima,’ 1850, &c., and an edition in 2 vols., 1851). 3. ‘Selecta e Catullo’ (with notes), 1845, 12mo. 4. ‘Account and Map of the Ancient City of Rome,’ 1850; and a similar ‘Account and Map of Ancient Athens,’ 1851, 8vo (also 1852, 8vo). 5. ‘Selecta e Propertio’ (with notes), 1851, 12mo. 6. ‘Eton Selections from Ovid and Tibullus’ (with notes), 1859, 12mo (another edition, 1860,12mo). 7. ‘Cæsar's Gallic War’ (with English notes), 1861, 12mo. Cookesley also published: 8. ‘Sermons,’ London, 1843, 12mo; and ‘Old Windsor Sermons,’ London, 1844, 12mo. 9. ‘A revised translation of the New Testament,’ 1859, &c., 8vo. 10. ‘A few Remarks on some of the more prominent errors contained in Bishop Colenso's Book on the Pentateuch,’ London, 1863, 8vo. 11. ‘Memorial Sketch of F. J. Cookesley, edited by W. G. C.,’ 1867, 12mo. 12. Various pamphlets published between 1845 and 1867 (see Brit. Mus. Cat.)
[Men of the Time, 10th ed. 1879, 11th ed. 1884 (‘Necrology’); Martin's Handbook of Contemporary Biog. 1870; Athenæum, 21 Aug. 1880, No. 2756, p. 240; Brit. Mus. Cat.]
W. W.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cooke, William John

​COOKE, WILLIAM JOHN (1797–1865), line engraver, was born in Dublin 11 April 1797, but came to England with his parents when only a year old. He was placed under the tuition of his uncle, George Cooke, the engraver, and in 1826 he received from the Society of Arts a gold medal for the great improvements which he made in engraving upon steel. He was employed upon the annuals, Stanfield's ‘Coast Scenery,’ Daniell's ‘Oriental Annual,’ and other illustrated publications of that day; but upon their decline about 1840 he left England and settled at Darmstadt, where he died 6 April 1865. His best plates are those after Turner of ‘Nottingham’ and ‘Plymouth’ in the ‘Views in England and Wales,’ ‘Newark Castle’ in Scott's ‘Poetical Works.’ Besides these he engraved ‘The Thames at Mortlake,’ also after Turner, ‘Calais Pier,’ after David Cox, for the ‘Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours,’ and ‘Returned from his Travels, or the Travelled Monkey,’ after Sir Edwin Landseer.
[Bryan's Dict. of Painters and Engravers, ed. Graves, 1886; information from Mrs. Cooke.]
R. E. G.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cookes, Thomas

​COOKES, Sir THOMAS (d. 1701), benefactor of Gloucester Hall, Oxford, belonged to an old Worcestershire family, and resided at Bentley Pauncefot in Worcestershire. He was a liberal patron of Bromsgrove grammar school, and endowed the school of Feckenham. By his will, dated 19 Feb. 1696, and proved in the prerogative court of Canterbury 15 Oct. 1701, he gave ‘to the archbishop of Canterbury, the bishops of Oxford, Lichfield, and Gloucester, and to the vice-chancellor and all the heads of colleges and halls in the university of Oxford, for the time being and their successors,’ the sum of 10,000l. to purchase lands, the profits whereof were to be devoted ‘either to build an ornamental pile of buildings in Oxford and endow the same with so many scholars' places and fellowships as they should think the revenue would maintain, or to endow such other college or hall in Oxford with such and so many fellowships and scholars' places as they should think fit.’ In the election to fellowships and scholarships preference was to be given to those who had been educated at Bromsgrove or Feckenham. The executors and the law courts kept the bequest unsettled till 1714, when the property was acquired by Glou​cester Hall, and (by royal letters patent, dated 14 July 1714) the hall was converted into Worcester College. It appears that Cookes had originally intended that the 10,000l. should be devoted to building a workhouse in Worcestershire, and that he had abandoned this intention at the instance of Dr. Woodroffe of Gloucester Hall. The Rev. John Baron, fellow of Balliol, in 1699 preached a sermon before Cookes at Feckenham, in the hope of diverting the stream of bounty to Balliol, but the sermon failed to produce the desired effect. Cookes died 8 June 1701.
[Nash's Worcestershire, i. 441, ii. 403; Wood's Hist. and Antiq. of Coll. of Oxford, ed. Gutch, pp. 630–1; Reliq. Hearn. ii. 274; Ballard MSS. iv. 25, vi. 37, xxi.; information from T. W. Jackson, esq., vice-provost of Worcester College.]
A. H. B.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Coggeshall, Henry

​COGGESHALL, HENRY (1623–1690), mathematician, was the third son of John Coggeshall of Orford in Suffolk, where he was baptised 23 Dec. 1623, and buried 19 Feb. 1690. He married, and left one son, William Coggeshall of Diss, Norfolk. He invented the sliding-rule known by his name, first described by him in 1677 in a pamphlet entitled. 'Timber-Measure by a Line of more Ease, Dispatch, and Exactness than any other ​ Way now in use, by a Double Scale. As also Stone-Measure and Gauging of Vessels by the same near and exact Way. Likewise a Diagonal Scale of 100 parts in a Quarter of an Inch, very easie both to make and use' (London, 1677). He soon after improved the rule, and revised the little work in which the mode of using it was set forth, republishing it in 1682, with the heading, 'A Treatise of Measuring by a Two-foot Rule which slides to a Foot.' A third, considerably modified, edition appeared in 1722. It was designated 'The Art of Practical Measuring easily performed by a Two-foot Rule which slides to a Foot,' and contained ' some useful Instructions in Decimal Arithmetick, and lastly some useful Directions in Dialling not hitherto published.' A fourth edition, carefully revised by John Ham, was issued in 1729, and a seventh in 1767.
[Davy's Athenæ Suffolcences, in Brit. Mus. MSS. i. 533 ; Button's Mathematical Diet. ii. 404.]
A. M. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cogan, William

​COGAN, WILLIAM (d. 1774), philanthropist, son of John Cogan by Elizabeth, daughter of John Battie, was a citizen of Kingston-upon-Hull of which town he was chamberlain in 1712, sheriff in 1714, and mayor in 1717 and 1736. In 1753 he founded a charity school for twenty girls In Salthouse Lane, Kingston-upon-Hull, endowing it with stock to the amount of 2.000l., which he subsequently increased by 500l. He lived on terms of intimacy with the Wilberforces and other benevolent families. By his will he bequeathed 2,000l. in trust for apprenticing poor lads to certain trades. He died in 1774.
[Hadley's Kingston-upon-Hull, p.874; Tickell's Kingston-upon-Hull, pp. 831-8; Gent. Mag. (1856), i. 151.]
J. M. R.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cokayne, George

​COKAYNE, GEORGE (1619–1691), independent minister, son of John and Elizabeth Cokayne, was baptised at Cople, Bedfordshire, on 16 Jan. 1619. He was educated at Sidney College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1639-40. In the civil war period he was presented to the rectory of St. Pancras, Soper Lane, London, and became a celebrated preacher among the independents. Wood speaks of him as 'a prime leader in his preachings in Oliver's time' (Athena Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 470). On 9 Nov. 1648 he was appointed to preach the monthly fast sermon before the House of Commons, in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, and was ordered to print it. Not long afterwards he became chaplain to Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, one of Cromwell's lords. In 1658 he published 'Divine Astrologie, or a Scripture Prognostication of the sad events which ordinarily arise from the good man's fall by Death,' being a funeral sermon on Colonel William Underwood. He was ejected from his rectory in 1660, and his congregation going out with him formed an independent community in Redcross Street. Among the eminent citizens who adhered to him were Sir Robert Tichborne, Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke, Sir John Ireton, and Sir John More. He died on 21 Nov. 1691, and was buried in Tindall's Ground, afterwards called the Bunhill Fields Burial-ground. After his death the congregation removed to a building in Hare Court, called the Stated Room, which was succeeded by a more commodious building in 1772. An elaborate biography of Cokayne will be found in 'The Story of Harecourt, being the History of an Independent Church, by John B. Marsh,' 1871. That work contains ​a portrait of him, engraved on wood, from an oil-painting preserved in the vestry at Hare Court.
Besides the above-mentioned sermons, Cokayn wrote prefaces to T. Crisp's 'Christ alone Exalted,' 1643, to Obadiah Sedgwick's funeral sermon for Rowland Wilson, and to Bunyan's 'Acceptable Sacrifice.' It has been stated that he had some share in the 'English-Greek Lexicon,' 1658, compiled by Joseph Caryl and others (Wilson, Dissenting Churches, iii. 281); but the contributor to that work was more probably Thomas Cokayne [q. v.] (Wood, Athenæ Oxon. ed. Bliss, iii. 470, 982). Cokayne made free remarks upon the quakers, on which account he is animadverted upon by George Fox in his 'Great Mystery.'
[Authorities quoted above; also Calamy's Ejected Ministers, ii. 35; Calamy's Contin. 51; Palmer's Nonconf. Memorial, ed. 1 802, i. 175; Crowe's Cat. (1668), 74, 108.]
T. C.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cokayne, Thomas (1519?-1592)

​COKAYNE, Sir THOMAS (1519?–1592), hunt-master, born about 1519, was the eldest son of Francis Cokayne or Cockaine of Ashbourne, Derbyshire, by his wife, Dorothy, daughter and heiress of Thomas Marrow, serjeant-at-law (Cockayne Memoranda, 1st series, pp. 246). Thomas was brought up in the house of the Earl of Shrewsbury, but succeeding to the family estates at the age of nineteen, on the death of his father in 1538, he was known as 'a professed hunter and not a scholler' for fifty-two years, and he became a great hunting authority. In 1544 he was sent by Henry VIII to Scotland, and knighted for his services. About 1547 he married Dorothy, daughter of Sir Humphrey Ferrers of Tamworth Castle (at that time married to Cokayne's widowed mother). By this marriage he had several children, among them a son, Edward, the father of Thomas Cokayne, lexicographer [q. v.] In 1548 Cokayne was sent by Edward VI to 'rescue the siege at Haddington,' after which he returned to his country occupations, which he never again left. He served several times as high sheriff; he was arbitrator in 1550 in a ​Ashbourne and became one of the governors. His most important county work was in 1587, when Sir Ralph Sadler, then conducting Mary Stuart from Wingfield to Tutbury, desired him ‘to be ready to attend the queene to Derbie, with but a small traine.’ After this he prepared his book, ‘A Short Treatise of Hunting, compyled for the Delight of Noblemen and Gentlemen,’ and dating it ‘from my house neere Ashbourne, the last of December 1590,’ he dedicated it to Gilbert Talbot, earl of Shrewsbury, the grandson of his early friend, and it was published in 1591. This quaint, little work concludes with directions for blowing huntsmen's horns. These are, Cokayne asserts, the identical measures of blowing ordered by Sir Tristram, King Arthur's knight, whose ‘first principles of hunting, hawking, and blowing’ are the best he knows.
Cokayne was of the reformed religion. He died in 1592, aged about seventy-two, and was buried at night on 15 Nov. at Ashbourne. The monument erected to him and his wife (who died 1595) still exists.
[Cockaine's Hunting n.p.; Cockayne Memoranda, 1st ser. pp. 24–6.]
J. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Coggeshall, Ralph of

​COGGESHALL, RALPH of (fl. 1207), chronicler, a native of Bernewell, Cambridgeshire, and a monk of the Cistercian abbey at Coggeshall, was chosen abbot in 1207, and about midsummer 1218, contrary to the wish of the convent, resigned the abbacy on account of ill-health. He took up the chronicle of Ralph Niger (edited by Colonel Robert Anstruther for the Caxton Society, 1851), who ended his work at 1161, corrected the expressions of indignation against Henry II with which the earlier writer concludes, and carried the chronicle down to 1178. The 'Chronicon Anglicanum' that bears the abbot's name begins at 1066. It contains several references to the affairs of the Cistercian order and to local events, such as those which concerned the monastery itself or its neighbourhood, and a large number of matters which were either told to the writer by visitors to the abbey, or which in various ways came under his notice and struck him as especially important or curious. Up to 1187 the entries are generally brief. After that date, when Ralph undertook the work, they become full, and are often of considerable importance. Although from an entry under 1207 it would seem as though the work was carried down to 1227, none of the copies of it extend beyond 1224. Manuscripts of the 'Chronicon' exist in the Cottonian collection in the British Museum, in the College of Arms, and in the National Library at Paris. From the imperfect Paris thirteenth-century manuscript, formerly belonging to the church of St. Victor, Martene printed the 'Chronicon' down to 1200, and from 1213-16 as distinct works in his 'Veterum Scriptorum . . . collectio,' v. 801-69, and nearly the whole is reprinted in 'Dom. Bouquet,' vol. xviii. The Cottonian MS., the author's autograph copy, has been followed by Mr. J. Stevenson in the edition he prepared for the Rolls Series in 1875. The 'Chronicon Terræ Sanctæ,' which has been ascribed to the author of the 'Coggeshall Chronicle,' is by another hand. Both the 'Chronicon Anglicanum' and the 'Chronicon Terræ Sanctæ' were printed by Mr. A. J. Donkin in 1856.
[R. de Coggeshall's Chronicon Anglicanum, preface, and 162, 163, 187, ed. Stevenson, Rolls Series; Hardy's Descriptive Catalogue, ii. 415, 541, iii. 65, Rolls Series.]
W. H.
# Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Cokayne, John

​COKAYNE, Sir JOHN (d. 1438), judge, son of Edmund Cokayne of Ashbourne in Derbyshire and Pooley in Warwickshire, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sir Richard de Herthull, was recorder of London in 1394, and appears as an advocate in a suit before the privy council in 1397 between two grantees by letters patent of the governorship of Rothelan Castle in Wales. Cokayne appears also in two cases (reported by Bellewe) in 1399, being still recorder of London. In 1400 he was created chief baron, was summoned to the council in the following year, and created a justice of the common pleas in 1405. In May of this year he was accused in parliament of having seized by force the manor of Baddesley Ensor in Warwickshire, and of keeping the owners out of possession, and was ordered to appear in person to answer to the charge. Of the further proceedings in this matter there is no record. The manor, however, remained in his possession, since by his will, which he made before starting for France with the military expedition sent to the aid of the Duke of Orleans in his struggle with the Duke of Burgundy in 1411–12, he entailed it upon his son John. It is not clear in what capacity he accompanied the expedition to France. On the accession of Henry V he retained the office of justice of the common pleas, but vacated that of chief baron. His patent for the former office was again renewed on the accession of Henry VI. In 1422–3, 1428–9, 1434–5, he held the office of sheriff of the combined counties of Derby and Nottingham. He is included in the list of contributors to the expenses of the French war drawn up in 1436 by the title of Sir John Cokayne, but as no fine appears to have been levied before him after the summer of 1429, it is probable that he resigned office in that year. At his death, which occurred in 1437–8, he held, besides the manor of Ashbourne in Derbyshire, extensive estates in Warwickshire and Staffordshire. He was buried in the north aisle of the parish church of Ashbourne under an alabaster monument representing him in a recumbent posture, wearing his judicial robes and the coif of a Serjeant, and with a greyhound at his feet. The monument is no longer extant, but an engraving of it is given by Dugdale (Orig. 100), and reproduced in Mr. Serjeant Pulling's 'Order of the Coif.' His wife Isabel was the daughter of Sir Hugh Shirley, who was killed at Shrewsbury fighting on the side of Henry IV. By her he had four sons, A lineal descendant of the judge, Charles-Cokayne of Rushton in Northamptonshire, was raised to the peerage of Ireland as Viscount Cullen in 1642. The peerage became extinct by the death of the sixth viscount in 1810.
[Dugdale's Warwickshire, ed. Thomas, 1120-1121; Bellewe's Ans du Roy Rich. II, pp. 2, 195; Proceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, i. 72-4, 162, iv. 327; Dugdale's Chron. Ser. 55, 56, 58; Rot. Parl. iii. 561; Fuller's Worthies (Derby); Cal. Inq. P.M. iv. 182; Cussans's Hertfordshire (Half Hundred of Hitchin), p. 27; Collins's Peerage, ed. Brydges, iv. 92; Burke's Extinct Peerage; Foss's Judges of England.]
J. M. R.