Decisions announced without Opinions. March 6, 1899. Mr. Joseph H. Choate, Mr. Arthur v. Briesen and Mr. Antonio Knauth for petitioner. Mr. Edmund Wetmore and Mr. Charles G. Coe opposing. No. 719. STATE BANK OF AMBIA V. CHICAGO TITLE AND TRUST COMPANY. Seventh Circuit. Denied March 13, 1899. Mr. Daniel Fraser and Mr. Otto Gresham for petitioner. Mr. Samuel O. Pickens and Mr. Smiley N. Chambers opposing. No. 270. GRATZ V. LAND AND RIVER IMPROVEMENT COMPANY. Seventh Circuit. Denied April 11, 1899. Mr. Henry S. Wilcox for petitioner. Mr. John C. Spooner, Mr. A. L. Sanborn and Mr. Maxwell Evarts opposing. No. 730. MEXICAN CENTRAL RAILWAY COMPANY v. MARFifth Circuit. Denied April 11, 1899. Mr. A. T. Britton and Mr. A. B. Browne for petitioner. SHALL. No. 754. CHAPMAN v. YELLOW POPLAR LUMBER COMPANY. Fourth Circuit. Denied April 17, 1899. Mr. J. F. Bullitt and Mr. R. A. Ayers for petitioner. Mr. John N. Baldwin opposing. No. 717. GLAW v. PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY. Sixth Circuit. Denied April 17, 1899. Mr. Charles Dick and Mr. Frederick C. Bryan for petitioner. Mr. William B. Sanders opposing No. 748. SCAIFE v. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA LAND COMPANY. Fourth Circuit. Denied April 17, 1899. Mr. A. C. Avery for petitioner. VOL. CLXXIII-45 In Memoriam. BARON HERSCHELL, D.C.L., LL.D. On the coming in of the court on March 1, 1899, the Chief Justice said: It is with sincere sorrow that I announce to the members of the bar the sudden death of Baron Herschell, former Lord Chancellor of England, information of which has just been received by the court with deep sensibility. Lord Herschell had been some months in this country in a pub lic and international capacity, and but a few days have elapsed since he sat with us here, a compliment which has been extended only once previously in the instance of the then Lord Chief Justice of England. In view of the cordial relations between Lord Herschell and the members of this court, his great distinction in our common profession and on the bench, and his unexpected death while absent from home in the discharge of high public duty, we feel called upon to take notice of this sad event, and as a mark of respect to his memory the court will adjourn until to-morrow at the usual hour. In Memoriam. STEPHEN JOHNSON FIELD, LL.D. Mr. Justice Field was born on the 4th of November, 1816. On the 10th of March, 1863, he was commissioned as a Justice of this court. Having resigned, he ceased to be a member of the court on the first day of December, 1897. He died on Sunday the 9th of April, 1899. On the coming in of the court on Monday morning, the 10th, the Chief Justice said: It becomes my sad duty to inform the gentlemen of the bar that Mr. Justice Field on yesterday (Sunday) evening passed peacefully from this life. He died full of years and of honors, and attended by all that should accompany old age. The judicial career of Mr. Justice Field was unexampled in length and distinction, and he occupied a seat upon this bench for a longer period than any of its members from the beginning. His labors left no region of jurisprudence unexplored, and now that he rests from them, his works will follow him. His retirement when he saw port approaching was so recent that he hardly seems to have been absent, and his death comes home to us the more keenly. As a mark of respect to his memory, the court will adjourn until to-morrow. On the morning of Thursday, the 13th of April, the funeral services took place at the church of the Epiphany in Washington, at half-past ten o'clock. INDEX. ABATEMENT. 1. An action, pending in the Circuit Court of the United States sitting 2. A right given by a statute of a State to revive a pending action for 8. Whether a pending action may be revived in a Federal court upon ADMIRALTY. 1. Undoubtedly there was jurisdiction in admiralty in this case, in the 2. Although a wharfinger does not guarantee the safety of vessels com- 3. This court is unable to decide that the Court of Appeals of the Dis- 4. The Golden Rule, a Canadian topsail schooner with twelve sails, all 709 |