Metcalf v. Watertown
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of the united states for the WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This action was brought in .the court below, in the year 1883, to recover the sum of $10,207.86, the amount of a judgment rendered May 8, 1866, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Wisconsin, in favor of Pitkin C. Wright, against the city of Watertown, a municipal corporation of that State. The plaintiff in the present action, E. W. Metcalf, is a citizen of Ohio, and sues as. assignee of certain named persons who became, under assignments from Wright in 1873, the owners, in different proportions, of that judgment.
Although the question of the jurisdiction of the…
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