Woods v. . Wilder
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial district, directing judgment for the defendant on a verdict ordered at the Mew York circuit subject to the opinion of the court at General Term. The defendants are sued as drawers of a bill of exchange for $5,000, alleged in the complaint to have been drawn by ' them at Savannah, Georgia, under the firm name of Wilder, Wheaton & Co., payable in Mew York, and protested for non-acceptance.
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Appeal from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial district, directing judgment for the defendant on a verdict ordered at the Mew York circuit subject to the opinion of the court at General Term. The defendants are sued as drawers of a bill of exchange for $5,000, alleged in the complaint to have been drawn by ' them at Savannah, Georgia, under the firm name of Wilder, Wheaton & Co., payable in Mew York, and protested for non-acceptance. The hill was drawn by John F. Wheaton, in the name of the firm of Wilder, Wheaton & Co., on the 23d of August, 1861, at…
1Opinion of the CourtRapallo, J.
The historical events and the acts of the national executive, in connection with the hostile relations between the government and the rebel States, which had transpired prior to the act of congress of July 13, 1861, are detailed in the opinion of the court in the case of Swinerton v. The Columbian Ins. Co. (37 N. Y., 174), and it is not necessary to repeat them here.
The question whether these events and acts established a state of war between the government' and the sections in rebellion, was determined in the Prize Cases (2 Black., 635), and it was there held that a state of civil war…
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- United States v. GrossmayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1870
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