Coal Co. v. Blatchford
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The case was this: The eleventh section of the Judiciary Act enacts: “That the Circuit1 Courts shall have original cognizance . . . of all suits of a civil nature, &c., where an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State.”
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The case was this: The eleventh section of the Judiciary Act enacts: “That the Circuit1 Courts shall have original cognizance . . . of all suits of a civil nature, &c., where an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State.” With this provision in force, B. M. Blatchford and J. B. Newman filed their bill for the foreclosure of a mortgage executed by the Susquehanna and Wyoming Valley Bail-road and Coal Company to them as trustees, to secure the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The eleventh section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 vests in the Circuit Courts original jurisdiction of suits of a civil nature, at law and in equity, when the matter involved exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, in three classes of eases: 1st, when the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners; 2d, when an alien is a party; and, 8d, when the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State.
In the last two classes the designation of the party, plaintiff or defendant, is in the singular number, but the…
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