Shepard v. Adams
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was an action brought in the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado, by Frank Adams, receiver of the Commercial National Bank of Denver, against J. B. Shepard on a promissory note, dated June 7, 1893, wherein said Shepard promised to pay to the said bank, thirty days after date, the sum of twenty thousand dollars.
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOE THE DISTRICT OF COLORADO. This was an action brought in the District Court of the United States for the District of Colorado, by Frank Adams, receiver of the Commercial National Bank of Denver, against J. B. Shepard on a promissory note, dated June 7, 1893, wherein said Shepard promised to pay to the said bank, thirty days after date, the sum of twenty thousand dollars. A writ of summons, in the form prescribed by the rule of that court, was sued out against the said defendant on the 24th day of August, . 1895, whereby he was required…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice ShiRas
This case is brought here, under section 5 of the act of March 3, 1891, as one involving a question of the jurisdiction of the District Court of the United States for the District of : Colorado; and the first contention we have to meet is that of the, defendant in error, that the case is not really within the meaning of that section of said act, but presents only the case of an alleged error in the judgment of the District Court, redress for which should have been sought in the Circuit Court of Appeals. It is said that the question of whether or not the District Court acquired jurisdiction by…
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