Murphy v. Ramsey
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS PROM THE SUPREME COURT OP THE .TERRITORY OP UTAH. I'll these actions, five in number, Alexander Ramsey, A. 'S. Paddock.
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APPEALS PROM THE SUPREME COURT OP THE .TERRITORY OP UTAH. I'll these actions, five in number, Alexander Ramsey, A. 'S. Paddock. G-. L. 'Godfrey, A. B. C.arleton and J. R. Pettigrew, defendants in all,' were persons who ' composéd the board appointed under § 9 of the act of Congress,, approved March 22,1882, entitled “ An act to amend section' fifty-three hundred and fifty-two of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in reference to bigamy, and for Other purposes.” -22 Stat. 30. E. I). Hoge, also a defendant," in all the cases, was appointed registration officer for the county of Salt…
1Opinion of the Court
Mt?.. JustiCe Matthews,
after making tbe foregoing statement, delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
These cases, although actions at law, were not tried by jury; and, therefore, are rightly brought here by appeal, according to the provision' of the aet of Congress of April Y, 1874, 18 Stat. 27. Stringfellow v. Cain, 99 U. S. 610; Hecht v. Boughton, 105 U. S. 235; Woolf v. Hamilton, 108 U. S. 15.
The wrong complained of in each case by the respective plaintiffs is, “ that the defendants, and each of them, intending to wrongfully deprive the plaintiff of the elective franchise in said Territory,…
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