M'Kim v. Voorhies
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was a case certified from the Circuit Court for the district of Kentucky, in which the opinions of the Judges'were opposed. Ac the July adjourned term of the Court below, in the year 1808, MfKvm, a citizen oí Maryland, recover-0f ed a judgment in ejectment against Voorhies, a citizen of Kentucky, for the undivided third part of a watermill, with its appurtenances, in the county of Franklin, in the state of Kentucky.
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THIS was a case certified from the Circuit Court for the district of Kentucky, in which the opinions of the Judges'were opposed. Ac the July adjourned term of the Court below, in the year 1808, MfKvm, a citizen oí Maryland, recover-0f ed a judgment in ejectment against Voorhies, a citizen of Kentucky, for the undivided third part of a watermill, with its appurtenances, in the county of Franklin, in the state of Kentucky. At the same time Voorhies filed his bill in Chen eery in the Court below against M‘Kim, and John Instone, a citizen of Kentucky, and Hayden Edw;ards, a citizen of South…
1Opinion of the CourtTodd, J.
stated the opinion of the Court to be; that the State Court liad no jurisdiction to enjoin a judgment of the Circuit Court pf the United ' States; and that the Court below should be ordered to issue, the writ of habere facias.
2Cited by1 opinion
- M'kim v. VoorhiesSupreme Court of the United States · 1812