Calder v. Bull

3 U.S. 386 (____)

3 Dall. 386

CALDER et WIFE,

versus

BULL et WIFE.

Supreme Court of United States.

CHASE, Justice.

The decision of one question determines (in my opinion) the present dispute. I shall, therefore, state from the record no more of the case, than I think necessary for the consideration of that question only.

The Legislature of Connecticut, on the 2d Thursday of May 1795, passed a resolution or law, which, for the reasons assigned, set aside a decree of the court of Probate for Harford, on the 21st of March 1793, which decree disapproved of the will of Normand Morrison (the grandson) made…