Legal Opinion

Overton v. Cheek

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 24, 1860PublishedCited by 6 opinions

This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of West Tennessee.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN

This purports to be a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of West Tennessee.

By reference to the transcript, it appears that the judgment of the Circuit Court was rendered the sixteenth of April, 1857. At the ensuing term of the Supreme Court, the transcript was filed.

It appears that a writ of error in the Circuit Court was allowed, in open court, and signed by the clerk the seventeenth day of April, 1857, which was returnable to the Supreme Court on the first Monday of December, 1857. But this writ had no seal, nor was it returned with the transcript to…

2Cited by6 opinions

  1. Ex Parte JonesCourt of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma · 1923
  2. Kipp v. BurtonMontana Supreme Court · 1903
  3. Wolf v. CookU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin · 1889
  4. Cotter v. Alabama G. S. R.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1894
  5. Southwestern Settlement & Development Co. v. RandolphCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1922

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