APPENDIX. I. SUMMARY STATEMENT OF BUSINESS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR OCTOBER TERM, 1899. Original Docket. Number of cases, Number of cases disposed of, Leaving undisposed of, Appellate Docket. Number of cases on appellate Docket at close of October Term, 1898, Number of cases docketed at October Term, 1899, Total, Number of cases disposed of at October Term, 1899, . reduction of one case, 18 4 14 304 370 674 371 303 II. AMENDMENT TO RULES. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. OCTOBER TERM, 1899. Ordered, That an amendment be made of Rule 31 of this court, to take effect at the commencement of October Term, 1900, so that the Rule as amended shall read as follows: 617 31. FORM OF PRINTED RECORDS AND BRIEFS. All records, arguments and briefs, printed for the use of the court, must be in such form and size that they can be conveniently bound together, so as to make an ordinary octavo volume; and, as well as all quotations contained therein, and the covers thereof, must be printed in clear type (never smaller than small pica) and on unglazed paper. (Promulgated May 14, 1900.) INDEX. ADMIRALTY. Where this court in a collision case directed a decree dividing the damages as between the two vessels, and allowing to the owners of the cargo of one vessel a full recovery against the other vessel; and the court below, upon the production of the mandate of this court, refused to permit the latter vessel to recoup against the other one half the damages to the cargo, it was held that the remedy was by a new appeal and not by mandamus from this court, no disobedience of the mandate being shown. The Union Steamboat Co., 317. APPEAL. See ADMIRALTY. ATTACHMENT. See NATIONAL BANK, 5. BANKRUPTCY. 1. The provisions of the second clause of section 23 of the Bankrupt Act of 1898 control and limit the jurisdiction of all courts, including the several District Courts of the United States, over suits brought by trustees in bankruptcy to recover or collect debts due from third parties, or to set aside transfers of property to third parties, alleged to be fraudulent as against creditors, including payments in money or property to preferred creditors. Bardes v. Hawarden Bank, 524. 2. The District Court of the United States can, by the proposed defendant's consent, but not otherwise, entertain jurisdiction over suits brought by trustees in bankruptcy to set aside fraudulent transfers of money or property, made by the bankrupt to third parties before the institution of the proceedings in bankruptcy. Ib. 3. A District Court of the United States has no jurisdiction, without the proposed defendant's consent, to entertain an action of replevin by a trustee in bankruptcy to recover goods conveyed to the defendant by the bankrupt in fraud of the Bankrupt Act and of his creditors. Bardes v. Hawarden Bank, ante, 524, followed. Mitchell v. McClure, 539. 4. A District Court of the United States has jurisdiction, by the proposed defendant's consent, but not otherwise, to entertain a bill in equity by a trustee in bankruptcy to recover property conveyed to the defendant by the bankrupt in fraud of the Bankrupt Act and of his creditors. Bardes v. Hawarden Bank, ante, 524, followed. Hicks v. Knost, 541. 5. After an adjudication in bankruptcy, an action of replevin in a state CALIFORNIA WATER RATES. 1. The appropriation and disposition of water in California is a public use, 2. It is not for the court to go into the reasonableness of the established CASES AFFIRMED OR FOLLOWED. 1. The judgment in High v. Coyne, ante, 111, is followed in this case. 2. Knowlton v. Moore, ante, 41, followed in this case as to the points there 3. Plummer v. Coler, ante, 115, affirmed and followed in this case. Ib. Taylor and Marshall v. 5. It results from the conclusions announced in No. 603, ante, 548, that the See BANKRUPTCY, 3, 4; CONTRACT, 6, 7, 8; INHERITANCE TAX, 6. COAL MINE. 1. The act of Congress of March 3, 1891, concerning coal mines, makes three 2. The act does not give to mine owners the privilege of reasoning on the 3. It does not allow standing gas, but requires the mine to be kept clear of 4. It is the master's duty to furnish safe appliances and safe working places, 5. On the issues made, and on the evidence, and regarding the provisions Ib. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. 1. It is a doctrine firmly established that the law of a State in which land 2. The courts of a State where real estate is situated have the exclusive Ib. 3. When a suit does not really and substantially involve a dispute or con- |