United States v. Knight's Administrator
Supreme Court of the United States
This cause (a California land claim brought here on appeal by the United States from the decree of the District Court) was reached on the docket at the present term, was called in its regular order, and was argued by counsel on both sides; the opinion of the court upon it was delivered, and a decree pronounced, that the decree of the District Court be reversed and. the cause remanded, with directions to dismiss the petition of the claimant.
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This cause (a California land claim brought here on appeal by the United States from the decree of the District Court) was reached on the docket at the present term, was called in its regular order, and was argued by counsel on both sides; the opinion of the court upon it was delivered, and a decree pronounced, that the decree of the District Court be reversed and. the cause remanded, with directions to dismiss the petition of the claimant. (See ante, p. 227.) At a subsequent day of the term, Mr. Reverdy Johnson, for the claimant, moved the court so far to modify its order entered therein, as…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
The court cannot receive the depositions, nor hear an argument upon the motion'. The point has already been decided at the present term in the case of The United States vs. Hensley, and a similar motion- overruled.
In the case of Southard et al. vs. Russell, (12 How., 139,) the court held that it could not look beyond the record as transmitted from the inferior court, nor suffer its judgment to be influenced in any respect by new testimony offered here. And that case was before us in the exercise of the-general chancery powers conferred by the Constitution, in which a broad discretionary power…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Russell v. SouthardSupreme Court of the United States · 1851
- Southard v. RussellSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
- United States v. NourseSupreme Court of the United States · 1832
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