Gregory v. McVeigh
Supreme Court of the United States
On motion to dismiss, for want of jurisdiction, a writ of error to the Corporation Court of Alexandria, Virginia. The case was thus: Towards the close of the late rebellion, the United States filed a libel of information, under the act of 17th July, 1862, “ to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes ” — the act commonly known as “ the Confiscation Act ” — against certain real estate in…
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On motion to dismiss, for want of jurisdiction, a writ of error to the Corporation Court of Alexandria, Virginia. The case was thus: Towards the close of the late rebellion, the United States filed a libel of information, under the act of 17th July, 1862, “ to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate the property of rebels, and for other purposes ” — the act commonly known as “ the Confiscation Act ” — against certain real estate in Alexandria, Virginia, a State then within the government lines, belonging to one McVeigh, a person then in the rebel lines,…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court.
The motion to dismiss this cause for want of jurisdiction is denied.
“ A final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had,” may in a proper case be re-examined in this court. *
The Court of Appeals is the highest court in the State of Virginia. If a decision of a suit could be had in that court, we must wait for such a decision before we can take jurisdiction, and then can only examine the judgment of that court. If, however, the suit is one of which that court cannot take…
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