New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-12-11
Law INTELLIGENCE.
THE CIVIL CouRTs.


In the United States District Court yester~
day. the following described property was condemned sy
default OF any claimants appearing IN answer TO legal
bbls distilled spirits, found at No So Broadway ile bbs
distilled spirits, found in iansiu from Nhiteallst 100
distilled spirits found at WeiDbergers dsteIy In Thirty
fthst bb distilled spirits found at Nc. O. Frontst
distilled spirits found No 10 westst bbls distilled
spirits, found In Forty-nnth-sty between Ninth ana
Tenth-ayes.
The case of the United States to forfeit SO
bales Of wool was before Judge Batchiord yesterday
The wool in this II 06 lbs was seized at the Gus
and falls entries had been made in the invoice Iest
mOny for the Government was to the effect that me wo9i
was underyalued both as TO quality aud price Tie eV
dence for claimant that the wool was OF two grades
and was correctly inyoced. Case still on .,..,
lows: Petition OF Edgar 8. Buge, referred TO Register
Williams Of Jose Antonio Peasant ana Lnllio PstlS nrn
Mansfield. referred 10 Register Dayton; OF William ID
Albert referred 70 Register Allen; and OF william ~.
Little, referred TO Register Dwight AL OF these pettoh
are Of this city -,
In January, 1865, the Indiana and Chicago
Railway Company bought. through Francis b. Cutting "a
stakeholder ia the Company, from Ih9nas VI, ay!z, =
broker in railway supplies In this city, TWO locomotives
Tying $500 as commission Tie Railway Company brought
suit land the trial before Judge Bacon OF the SUI
preme Court yesterday for damages alleging tna tho
locomotives were not what defendant represented them
TO be- beng in fact worthless except for old metal Dc
were verbally represented be; that he made the con-
tract for their sale with Mr. Cntting as pInepa no.
Cutting closed the bargain on the representations OK
Mr.. Levi Bisse, whom Mr. Cutting regarded as an ex
pert The IL still on
Judge Ingraham of the Supreme Court, hasJust
given important opinion TO the stdsof the National
banks Pitt Cooke having claim against the State Ma
tOnal Bank OF Boston, commenced suit by attachDeDt
that writ being issued the ground that the Bank was
foreign corporation. The Bank moved TO yacate the or
der mainly the ground that the act OF Congress crea
ing the National Banks provided that they may DC SUED
i'm the United States Courts OF the District IN which they
are located and that being Government agents they arc
free from the Jurisdiction OF all other Courts Judge ih
graham decides that their Incorporation does not make
them United agents, and II 10 did, would not after
general position, except as TO the particular trans
action IN which they agents being Ia this respect IN
the position OF any bank that the word In the act
was permssOry restrictive and that state courts
had lrsdlcion and that the United States was foreign
to the State of within the meaning Of the code
and therefore the attachment must stand.
Judge Ingraham has decided in the OF Crofsky,
boy committed TO the House Of Refuge for term OF
years that the fixed term improper but mere sur
pusage. and the boy having been regularly committed.
the period during which he should be held was entirety
IN tie discretion of the managers OF the House until he
came of