Winter v. Baker

These, I believe, are the only actions on the October calendar, which are founded on an alleged contract, ■ arising under an act of the legislature of the state of Georgia, approved December 21, 1830.

The main question presented by these cases is, whether this liability can be enforced within any other jurisdiction than that of Georgia ?' If this liability is founded upon contract, in the ordinary legal sense of the term, it can, without doubt, be enforced here ; - for, although laws have no force, by their inherent vigor, beyond the territorial limits of the state,- in which they are made,…