United States Reports (Volume 243); Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at and Rules Announced at

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Excerpt: ... INDEX. ABATEMENT AND REVIVOR: Pagk 1. In the absence of a statute otherwise providing, a suit to restrain a state official and his successors from levying and assessing a tax under a state law, claimed to be unconstitu- tional, abates upon expiration of his term of office. Pullman Co. v. Knott r 447 2. Under Texas Rev. Stats., Art. 1206, a suit against a cor- poration is not abated by its dissolution pending appeal. Pease v. Rathbun-Jones Co 273 3. Error in suing out writ of error in the name of a plaintiff after he had died while case was pending in Circuit Court of Appeals held waived by stipulation of counsel in that court that administrator might be substituted. McCluskey v. Marysville & Northern Ry 36 ACTION. See Cause of Action. ACTS OP CONGRESS. See Table at front of volume; Stat- utes. ADEQUATE REMEDY AT LAW, See Equity, 4. ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES. See Executors and Administrators. ADMINISTRATIVE CONSTRUCTION AND REGULA- TIONS. See Procedure; Public Lands. ADMIRALTY: 1. A violation of neutrality by a belligerent, in wrongfully making use of an American port for storing indefinitely a merchant vessel and cargo captured on the high seas affords jurisdiction in admiralty to the District Court to seize the vessel and cargo and restore them to their private owners. TheAppam 124 ADMIRALTY--Continued. Pack 2. Proceedings in a prize court of the belligerent country could not oust the jurisdiction of the District Court having the vessel in custody or defeat its judgment. Id. 3. The British steamer Appam, captured on the high seas and navigated to an American port in control of German officers and crew, held to have been brought here as a prize. Id. 4. Under established principles of international law, it is a breach of our neutral rights for one of two belligerents, with both of wh...