Ex parte Jenkins

GI1IEK, Circuit Justice.

The jurisdiction of the courts of the United States is limited, but within its limits supreme. The state courts have often in many cases, a concurrent. jurisdiction over the same subjects and persons. But neither can treat the other as an inferior jurisdiction, except in the cases where the constitution and acts of congress have given such power to the courts of the Union. Where persons or property are ha-ble to seizure or arrest by the process of both, that which first attached should have the preference. Any attempt of either to take them from the legal custody of…