Prentiss v. Brennan
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
In equity. The plaintiff [Douglass Fren-tiss] filed his bill in this case against the defendant [Charles W. Brennan] for the settlement of a partnership account, claiming a large balance due to him from the firm, charging that the defendant had wrongfully taken possession of the partnership books, papers and effects, and had absconded with them from Kingston’, in the province of Canada, where the partnership business had been carried on, into the state of New-York, and…
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In equity. The plaintiff [Douglass Fren-tiss] filed his bill in this case against the defendant [Charles W. Brennan] for the settlement of a partnership account, claiming a large balance due to him from the firm, charging that the defendant had wrongfully taken possession of the partnership books, papers and effects, and had absconded with them from Kingston’, in the province of Canada, where the partnership business had been carried on, into the state of New-York, and praying for an account and an injunction, &c. The bill described the plaintiff as of the city of Kingston, in the province of…
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, Circuit Justice.
The second section of the third article of the constitution of the United States provides, that the judicial ■power of the United States shall extend, among other things, to controveraies between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects; and the eleventh section of the judiciary act of 1789 (1 Stat. 78), in carrying into effect this provision, declares that the circuit courts shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several states, of all suits of a civil nature, at common law or in equity, where the United…
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