Cheang-Kee v. United States

70 U.S. 320

18 L.Ed. 72

3 Wall. 320

CHEANG-KEE

v.

UNITED STATES.

December Term, 1865

A STATUTE of the United States,1 relating to the Circuit Court for California, enacts that, by consent of parties, 'issues of fact in civil cases may be tried and determined by the said Circuit Court without the intervention of a jury.'

Under this statute the court, in giving its decision, is to state the facts found and the conclusions of law separately; and a review by this court is to be limited to a determination of the sufficiency of the facts found to support the judgment, and to the rulings of the court in…