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Sonnentheil v. Christian Moerlein Brewing Co.

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 3, 1899No. 45PublishedCited by 112 opinions

ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. This was an action at law, brought by Sonnentheil, trustee under a deed of trust executed December 16, 1892, by Freiberg, Klein & Co., of Galveston, Texas, against the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company, an attaching creditor, and one Dickerson, whose Christian name is unknown, marshal of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas, to recover the value of a stock of goods seized by the marshal under writs…

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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. This was an action at law, brought by Sonnentheil, trustee under a deed of trust executed December 16, 1892, by Freiberg, Klein & Co., of Galveston, Texas, against the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company, an attaching creditor, and one Dickerson, whose Christian name is unknown, marshal of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas, to recover the value of a stock of goods seized by the marshal under writs of attachment in favor of the Brewing Company. Prior to December 16, 1892, Moses Freiberg, Sam Klein and Joseph…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown

1. At the last term of this court motion was made to dismiss the writ of error upon the ground that under section 6 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1891, establishing the Circuit Courts of Appeals, the judgment of the Court of Appeals .affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court was final. By this section the judgments or decrees of the Circuit Courts of Appeals shall be final in all cases in which the jurisdiction depends entirely upon the opposite parties to the suit being aliens and citizens of the United States, or citizens of different States. In this case the plaintiff Sonnentheil…

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