Nations v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the District Court of the United States for the western district of Texas. All the facts in the case, and also the proceedings of the court below, are set forth in the opinion of this court.
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This case was brought up by writ of error from the District Court of the United States for the western district of Texas. All the facts in the case, and also the proceedings of the court below, are set forth in the opinion of this court. Mr. Paschal commenced- his argument by stating it as a general principle, that a judgment obtained by publication and without personal service cannot be the foundation of an action in another State, nor, indeed, in the State where the suit is brought; that all suits are either in personam or in rem ; that when in personam, there must be personal.service to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
'This case comes before the court' upon a writ of error to the District Court of tin-United States for the western district of Texas. It was a petitory suit, commenced by the present defendants, and was founded upon a certain final decree rendered at the April term, 1854, by the district chancery court,'held at Carrollton, in the State of Mississippi, for the northern district of that State. Among other things, the petitioners allege that Nancy A. Johnson, then Nancy A. Alvis, and a minor, by her next friend, brought a suit by bill of complaint in that court against the present plaintiffs to…
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