Brooks v. Laurent
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
■ Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida. This litigation was begun by an original bill in chancery, filed in the state circuit court of Florida on September 17, 1897. The complainants were William M. Brooks and his wife, Sue G. Brooks, citizens of Florida, and the defendants were Achille Laurent and Leon Laurent and Paul Jumeau, agent of the former, citizens of the republic of France! The bill alleged that on April 10, 1895,…
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■ Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Florida. This litigation was begun by an original bill in chancery, filed in the state circuit court of Florida on September 17, 1897. The complainants were William M. Brooks and his wife, Sue G. Brooks, citizens of Florida, and the defendants were Achille Laurent and Leon Laurent and Paul Jumeau, agent of the former, citizens of the republic of France! The bill alleged that on April 10, 1895, William M. Brooks leased in writing to one W. A. Fulton a certain tract of land in Florida for the purpose of mining and…
1Opinion of the CourtShelby, Circuit Judge
It is assigned as error that the United States circuit court had no jurisdiction of the case. The position taken by counsel is ¡hat the suit in which relief is granted is one by Achille Laurent, as the as signet; of Fulton, to enforce specifically the lease, and that the lease is within the prohibition of the statute providing that the circuit court shall not “have cognizance of any suit * ⅞ ⅞ to recover the contents of any promissory note or oilier chose in action in favor of any assignee, ⅞ ⅞ unless such suit might have been prosecuted in such court to recover the said contents if no…
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