The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-19
IN THE MESHES
Of THE LAW,
Decisions by the Supreme
Court in Complicated
Cases.
HETTY GREEN A WINNER
Her Title to a Large Tract of
Chicago Land Not I'm
paired.
JUSTICE GRAY IS SARCASTIC.
Expresses an Opinion as to the At.
tempts of Corporations to
Dodge Their Taxes.
JUSTICE GRAY IS SARCASTIC.

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1S.-In the
Supreme Court to-day the following cases,
among others, were disposed of:
John Evans Cornell VS.. Hetty 81. R.
Green ct al. This case involved Mrs.
Green's title to a large tract of land in
Chicago, said to be valued at $5,OO0,0O0, OBJ
tanned by sale under foreclosure proceed
ings, and the bill was dismissed in the
Federal Court there by Judge Blodgett
Justice Gray said the case presented no
Federal question, and Cornell's appeal
was dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
The steamer Coquitlam, etc., VS.. the
United States. In this case Justice Har-
Ian held that the Court of Appeals has
jurisdiction to review the final judgments
of the Supreme Court of Alaska.
Alfred f. Webster VS.. Milo ]. Luther, ct
al. This case involved the question
whether or not homesteader under the
law OF 1862, who had made an additional
entry of land under subsequent law, could
dispose ofthat additional entry as of other
property. The court said, in an opinion
read by Justice Harlan, that it was the
intention of Congress to give the additional
land outright to the homesteader for him
to dispose OF as he pleased.
The Salina Stock Company ct al. VS.. the
Salina Creek Irrigation Company. This
was a controversy between these two COR
porations over the right to use the waters
of Yogo and Neoche creeks, Utah, the
former appealing from Judgment of the
Supreme Court of the Territory in respect
thereto. Justice Shiras stated that there
was nothing in the record for the Supreme
Court to review, and the judgment OF the
Territorial Court was confirmed.
Bob Talton VS.. Wash Moyes, High
Sheriff of the Cherokee Nation. Talton
was convicted of murder by the Indian
Court and sentenced to death. He applied
to Judge Parker of the United States
Court for the Western District of Arkansas
for release on writ of habeas corpus on
the ground that the proceedings in his
case were irregular. Judge Parker de-
clined to issue the writ, and the Supreme
Court affirmed his decision.
The Illinois Central Railroad Com pany
was triumphant in the Supreme Court to-
day in a rather singular litigation with the
State of Illinois. There is a State law
which requires every railway passenger
train to stop at county seats within the
State. The railroad company operates a
line of road from Chicago to New Orleans,
which passes Cairo at point three and o
half miles distant from the station in that
city. Proceedings were begun in relation
of the State to compel the railroad COM
panv TO run the fast mail train into the
city under the provisions of the county
seat law, and the Supreme Court Of the
State decided that it must do so. The
company appealed to the Supreme Court
and the judgment was reversed.
In announcing the judgment and opin-
ion of the court upon the case of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company VS.. Thomas
Taggert, Auditor of Marion County, In
diana, ct al, Justice Gray waxed some
the validity of the Indian tax law of 1891,
relating to corporations, which had been
sustained in the State courts, from whose
judgment the telegraph company ap-
pealed. Justice Gray said this was one of
the cases which annually came before the
court, brought by some corporation which
felt itself constitutionally aggrieved. The
court, he said, was asked in the appeal to
modify or overrule decisions in substan-
TALLY similar cases relating to the tax laws
OF States brought to the Supreme Court OF
the United States, some of them by the
same corporation. Without going into
the reasons for the action of the court, he
said the Judgment of the Indiana Supreme
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