8. A certificate of sale of public lands for taxes is
not void or inoperative because signed by only two
of three commissioners.
2. A chancery case in the territorial courts of
Montana should have been tried by the modes of
proceeding known to courts of equity.
Idem,
9. The Act of 1862 contemplates a certificate of
sole of land for taxes in cases where the U. S. be- TRADE-MARK.
comes the purchaser.
10. The Wisconsin Statute of Apr. 10, 1867, that
the holder of a certificate of tax sale should give no-
tice to whoever might be found in possession of the
land before taking a deed,does not impair the obli-
gation of the contract made at the sale.
11. Goods imported from a foreign country are
not subject to state taxation while remaining in
the original cases, in the hands of the importer, un-
broken and unsold.
568, 570
13. A law offering to all persons and corporations
a bounty for salt manufactured in the State, and
exemption from taxation of the property used in
its manufacture, is not a contract in such a sense
that it cannot be repealed.
611
14. Such a law is nothing but a bounty law, and
may at any time be altered, amended or repealed.
Idem,
611
15. A tax deed executed under a statute, declaring
that such deeds should be prima facie evidence of a
good and valid title in the grantee, his heirs and as-
signs, did not dispense with the performance of all
the requirements prescribed by law for the sale of
the lands. It only shifted the burden of the proof of
such performance from the party claiming under
the deed to the party attacking it.
1. A company has not an exclusive right to the
use of the words "Lackawanna Coal," as a distinc-
tive name or trade-mark for the coal mined by it.
Canal Co. v. Clark, ・
2. Where rights to the exclusive use of the trade-
mark are invaded, the essence of the wrong con-
sists in the sale of the goods of one manufacturer
or vendor as those of another.
683
16. The provision of the California Statute that 1. Where the cashier of a bank used money of the
the sheriff,in selling property upon a judgment re-bank to purchase real estate, the title of which was
covered by the State against the property, for de- taken to his wife, the real estate will be decreed to
linquent taxes, shall only sell the smallest quantity be sold.at the suit of the bank,to repay the money.
of the property which any purchaser will take and
Mann v. Bk..
pay the judgments and costs, is mandatory upon
the officer and not directory merely.
has full knowledge and a long experience on the | and the Proclamation that the war had closed gives
subject.
the date of its ending.
Freeborn v. The Protector,
463
3. The war did not begin or close at the same time
in all the States. Different dates of its beginning and
1. Usury in a bond is governed by the place where closing in the different States given.
payable.
2. A law against usury on loans will not prevent
the purchase of securities at any price.
Idem,
463
4. The treasury regulation forbidding all trans-
portation of coin or bullion to any State or section
declared by the President's Proclamation to be in
insurrection, was valid.
WASHINGTON CITY.
SEE TAXES AND TAX SALES, 18.
WILL.
4. Such an order, founded on a judgment in N. Y.
declaring the will void, obtained by collusion be-
tween the devisee under the will and the heirs at
law, cannot affect the purchaser from the devisee,
made in good faith before such judgment.
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