State ex rel. Chapman

The petition of relator alleges, that he is an alien, and a subject of the Queen of Great Britain; that having been sued by one Thomas II. Parish, in the Fifth District Court of New Orleans, relator applied to said court, by petition, for leave to remove the cause into the Circuit Court of the United States for this district, and gave bond for costs, as required by the Act of Congress ; but that the Judge of the court refused leave to remove the cause, as prayed for.

Relator represents that, under the Act of Congress, of September 24th, 1789, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the…