The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-04
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BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL.
SUPREME COURT ADJouRNs.
IL VIII RehssembIe on the First
Monday of October.

OtAohfNs
Washington. June 3.-There were seven
teen cases disposed of by the. United
States supreme court to-day and then it
adjourned for the term. 1t will assemble
again for the term of 1895 on the first
Monday Of October The record Of decis-
IONS to-day was remarkable for the unus-
ualiy large number of land cases II con-
tanned, Mr.. Justice Brewer reading the
opinions in the most of them.
A review of the work accomplished by
the court in the term which ended to-day
shows that Il IS making substantial pro-
gress toward the time when IL shall have
caught up with the business on the docket
The docket OF original cases brought in the
court contained at the beginning of this
term, the second Monday of last October
eight cases; during the term eight adGi-
uonal ones were docketed, making a total
Of sixteen In all OF these. nine have been
disposed Of, seven remaining to be enter
ed upon the docket for 1898.
The appellate docket, the one in which
the public IS most Interested, had ia
cases last October. and 332 have since
been added, making a total Of l,Oi5 for the
whole term. OF these there were dispos-
ed, by opinion of the court by dismissal
under tho rules and by dismissal by the
appellants, 406, leaving 90 to be carried
over TO the next term, a gain of "a.
When the court adjourned to-day there
were IS cases still pending under advise
ment, having been argued and submitted
to the court for its determination. These
include number of cases of general in
terest and Importance, among them being
the following:
The two Cases of the United states
against the Western I Mon Telegraph
Company and the Union and Central Pa
cihc Railroad Company IN which the gov
ernment seeks to break the arrangements
or the operation of the telegraph lines
along the aided railroads
Meyer VS.. Richards, in which arises the
validity of the Louisiana. state bonus,
once paid by the state and afterward re-
sold by Burke, the fugitive state treas
urer.
The somewhat famous case of John G.
Moore VS.. Joseph 5. Miller, commissioner
of internal revenue, for an injunction TO
restrain that official from executing the
row defunct income tax law, also goes
over without a decision.
A question of jurisdiction certified to the
supreme court of the United States by
the court of appeals for the Sixth cir
cunt was answered in an opinion read to-
day by Mr. Justice Brown The Cardiff
Coal and Iron Company Of Tennessee was
placed in the hands of a receiver in the
ordinary course of such proceedings, anu
the receiver found that about 100 persons,
some residents of Tennessee, others of
different states, were indebted to the COM
pany in sums many of which were less
than $1,000, payment whereof was secured
by mortgages upon land which the com
pany had sold them. He petitioned the
court for an order to bring suit against
these debtors in one proceeding in or
der to avoid the great expense that would
attach to individual suits. The petition
case went forward to Judgment From
this judgment the debtors appealed to the
court OF appeals, and that court asked
the supreme court of the United States 10
answer the question: "Had the circuit
court of the United States in a general
creditors suit properly pending therein,
for the collection, administration and dis
tribution of the assets of an insolvent
corporation, the jurisdiction to hear and
determine an sncilary suit instituted in
the same cause by its receiver in. accord
ance with its orders against debtors CT
such corporation as far as in said sus,
the receiver claimed the right to recover
from any one debtor aAsum not exceeding
SCOOP
The question was answered in the az
frmatiVe, Justice Brown stating that the
jurisdiction of the court to wind up the
affairs of the corporation under the cred
sue the debtors of the concern for the
amounts due it, although in some case.
they might be less than $1,000 the mini,
mum sum that can be involved in a single
proceeding before the Court