Calder v. Wife
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error from the State of Connecticut. The caufe was argued at the laft term, (in the abfence of the chief justice) and nqw the court delivered their opinions feriatim. . Chase, Juftice. The decilion of one queftion determines (in my opinion), thé prefent difpute. I fhall, therefore, ftate from the record no more of the cafe, than I think neceftary for theconfideration of that queftion only.
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IN error from the State of Connecticut. The caufe was argued at the laft term, (in the abfence of the chief justice) and nqw the court delivered their opinions feriatim. . Chase, Juftice. The decilion of one queftion determines (in my opinion), thé prefent difpute. I fhall, therefore, ftate from the record no more of the cafe, than I think neceftary for theconfideration of that queftion only. The Legiflature of Connecticut, on the 2d Thurfday of May 1795, palled a refolution or law, which, for the reafons,affign-ed, let afide a decree of the court of Probate for Harford, on the2ill of March…
1Opinion of the Court
I am of opinion, that the.decree of the Supreme'Cotirt of Errors of Connecticut be affirmed, with coils.
Paterson, Justice.
The Conftitution of Connecticut is made up of ufages, and it appears that its Legiflature have, from the » beginning, exercifed the power of granting new trials. This has been uniformly the cafe till the year 1762, when this power was,-by a legiflative aft, imparted to the fuperior and county, courts. But the aft does not remove or annihilate the pre-ex-i'fting power of the Legiflature, in this particular; it only communicates to other authorities a concurrence of…
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