Case Name: VOCKE v. YAEGER
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1872-06
Citations: 28 F. Cas. 1237
Docket Number: 
Parties: VOCKE v. YAEGER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 28
Pages: 1237–1238

Head Matter:
Case No. 16,980.
VOCKE v. YAEGER.
[3 Biss. 300.]
Circuit Court, N. D. Illinois.
June, 1872.
Bilí, to Establish Set-Off.
[This was a suit by Vocke. assignee of the Germania Mutual Insurance Company, against Yaeger.]
In this case, founded on essentially the same state of facts and tried at the same time [with Sawyer v. Hoag, Case No. 12,-400], Rosenthal & Pence, for assignee, cited the following authorities: Curran v. Arkansas, 15 How. [56 U. S.] 304; Wood v. Dum-mer [Case No. 17,944]; Hightower v. Thornton, 8 Ga. 493; Nathan v. Whitlock, 3 Edw. Ch. 215, 9 Paige, 152; Vose v. Grant. 15 Mass. 505; Richards v. Insurance Co., 43 N. H. 263; Briggs v. Penniman, 8 Cow. 387; Slee v. Bloom. 19 Johns. 456; Dudley v. Price, 10 B. Mon. S4; Ward v. Griswoldville Manuf’g Co., 16 Conn. 593; Henry v. Vermillion R. Co., 17 Ohio. 1S7; Barry v. Merchants’ Exp. Co., 1 Sandf. Ch. 280; Lawrence v. Nelson, 21 N. Y. 15S; Hillier v. Alleghany Mut. Ins. Co., 3 Pa. St. 473.
The supreme court affirmed the decree of the court below in above cases: opinion filed Dec. 22. 1S73. Sawyer v. Hoag [17 Wall. (84 U. S.) 610].
[Affirmed in 17 Wall. (84 U. S.) 610.]

Opinion:
These cases [Sawyer v. Hoag, Case No. 12,-400, and Vocke v. Yaeger, Id. 16,980] were heard and taken under advisement at the same time with Hitchcock v. Rollo [Id. 6,535], and Drake v. Rollo [Id. 4,066], and the bills dismissed by DRUMMOND, Circuit Judge, and BLODGETT, District Judge, on the grounds stated in the opinions in these cases. The cases are now pending in the United States supreme court.