Norris v. Crocker
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana, upon, a certificate of division in opinion between the judges thereof. The following certificate explains the. question: United States of America, District of Indiana.
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This case came up from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana, upon, a certificate of division in opinion between the judges thereof. The following certificate explains the. question: United States of America, District of Indiana. At a Circuit Court of the United States, begun and holden at Indianapolis, for the District of Indiana, on Monday, the nineteenth day of ..May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and continued from day to day until Friday, the thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. John Norris, v. Edwin B.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
The following questions are certified to us c ,- a ‘division of opinion from the Circuit Court for the District Indiana. .
1; 'Whether the 4th section of the act of 1793, respecting persons escaping from service • of their masters is repealed, so far as relates to the penalty, by the act of 1850, on the same subject, .
2. Whether, if the act of 1793 is repealed as to the penalty, the repeal will bar an action that was pending at the time of the repeal. .
The fugitive slave law of 1850 does not repeal the 4th. section'of the act of 1793 in terms; and if it is repealed, it mnst be by implication.…
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