Clerke v. Harwood
Supreme Court of the United States
`HIS was a writ of Error to the High Court of Appeals, of the State of Mary/and, to remove the pr~eedings in a caute, invojvlng a con1tru~tion ot tile treaty ot peace betWeen the United States and Great Britain, which that Court had de.~ cidcd again{t the title claimed under the Treafy, by reverfing and annulling a previous judgment given in the General Court of the State, in favor of the claim.
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`HIS was a writ of Error to the High Court of Appeals, of the State of Mary/and, to remove the pr~eedings in a caute, invojvlng a con1tru~tion ot tile treaty ot peace betWeen the United States and Great Britain, which that Court had de.~ cidcd again{t the title claimed under the Treafy, by reverfing and annulling a previous judgment given in the General Court of the State, in favor of the claim. The only objeaion arifing on the record, was-whet•her a paper money payment of a Brit-. iJh debt into the treafury of Maryland, during the war, by vir-. of a law of the Pcate~ was a bar to the…
1Opinion of the Court
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by the ’Court
The judgment of the Superior. .Const.oí Maryland being reverfed, it has become a mere nul- - lity ; and cofts muft follow the right as decided here.
Let the Judgment of the General Court be affirmed; let the cofts in the Courts of Maryland, and in this Court, be allowed to the Plaintiffin error; and let the-mandate for execution iffue to the General Court."
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- Clerke, in Error v. HarwoodSupreme Court of the United States · 1797