Legal Opinion
De Sobry v. Nicholson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 18, 1866PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
70 U.S. 420
18 L.Ed. 263
3 Wall. 420
DE SOBRY
v.
NICHOLSON.
December Term, 1865
THE Judiciary Act declares that the assignee of a chose in action shall not recover in a suit brought on it in the Federal courts, 'unless a suit might have been prosecuted in such courts, &c., if no assignment had been made.'
With this provision in force, a partnership in Pennsylvania, of which a certain Nicholson was one member, and Armstrong and others the remaining partners, made a contract with De Sobry, of Louisiana, 'to build a mill' on his plantation. The Pennsylvania partnership, after the contract was made, went…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- De Sobry v. NicholsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1865
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