First Nat. Bank of Canton v. Williams
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The case is stated in the opinion. The District Court did not have jurisdiction of the person of the defendant. He was not personally served in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Service of process outside the district in which suit is brought cannot be had without express statutory authority. Winter v. Koon, Schwarz & Co., 132 Fed. Rep. 273; Cely v. Griffin, 113 Fed.
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APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The case is stated in the opinion. The District Court did not have jurisdiction of the person of the defendant. He was not personally served in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Service of process outside the district in which suit is brought cannot be had without express statutory authority. Winter v. Koon, Schwarz & Co., 132 Fed. Rep. 273; Cely v. Griffin, 113 Fed. Rep. 981; Toland v. Sprague, 12 Pet. 300; Green v. Railway Co., 205 U. S. 530; Hughes, Federal Procedure, 264, 265. As the bill was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
Appellant, whose place of business is within the Middle District of Pennsylvania, brought this suit in the United States District Court for that District, seeking an injunction to prevent John Skelton Williams, Comptroller of the Currency, from doing certain things under color of his office declared to be threatened, unlawful, arbitrary and oppressive.
The bill alleges that, in order to injure complainant’s president, towards whom be entertained personal ill will, the Comptroller determined to destroy its business and to that end he had maliciously persecuted and oppressed it for three years,…
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