Livingston v. Jefferson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Virginia
This was an action of trespass, brought in the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Virginia, by Edward Livingston, a citizen of the state of New York, against Thomas Jefferson, a citizen of the state of Virginia, and late president of - the United States, for a trespass alleged to have been committed by the defendant whilst he was president, in removing him from the batture. in the city of New-Orleans, in the then territory of Orleans, now the state of…
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This was an action of trespass, brought in the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Virginia, by Edward Livingston, a citizen of the state of New York, against Thomas Jefferson, a citizen of the state of Virginia, and late president of - the United States, for a trespass alleged to have been committed by the defendant whilst he was president, in removing him from the batture. in the city of New-Orleans, in the then territory of Orleans, now the state of Louisiana. The suit was commenced in 1810, after the expiration of Mr. Jefferson’s last term of office. I The declaration…
1Opinion of the Court
2[TYLER, District Judge.3
This case,- although so ably and elaborately argued on both sides, affords but a single question; and that may be drawn within a narrow compass; and while I freely acknowledge how much I was pleased with the ingenuity and eloquence of the plaintiff's counsel, I cannot do so much injustice to plain truth, as to say, that any conviction was wrought on my mind, of the soundness of the arguments they exhibited in a legal acceptation. It is the happy talent of some professional gentlemen, and particularly of the plaintiff’s counsel, often to make “the worse appear the…
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