Diggs v. Wolcott
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the district of ■Connecticut, in a suit in chancery. The appellants, Diggs & Keith, had commenced a suit at law against Alexander Wolcott, the appellee, in the county court for the county of Middlesex, in the state of Connecticut, upon two promissory notes given by Wolcott to one Richard Matthews, for the purchase of lands in Virginia, and by him indorsed to the appellants ; whereupon, Wolcott filed a bill in…
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This was an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court for the district of ■Connecticut, in a suit in chancery. The appellants, Diggs & Keith, had commenced a suit at law against Alexander Wolcott, the appellee, in the county court for the county of Middlesex, in the state of Connecticut, upon two promissory notes given by Wolcott to one Richard Matthews, for the purchase of lands in Virginia, and by him indorsed to the appellants ; whereupon, Wolcott filed a bill in •chancery in the superior court of the state, against the appellants, Diggs & Keith, and also against Robert Young and Richard…
1Opinion of the Court
but The Court
being of opinion, that a circuit court of the United States had not jurisdiction to enjoin proceedings in a state court,
Reversed the decree.
2Cited by1 opinion
- Diggs v. WolcottSupreme Court of the United States · 1807