Manning v. French
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort to recover damages trom the judges of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims for prohibiting the plaintiff from practising as an attorney in that court. The defendant French, upon whom only service was made, alone defended. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Blodgett, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The following facts appeared in evidence.
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Tort to recover damages trom the judges of the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims for prohibiting the plaintiff from practising as an attorney in that court. The defendant French, upon whom only service was made, alone defended. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Blodgett, J., who allowed a bill of exceptions, in substance as follows. The following facts appeared in evidence. The Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims was established by the act of Congress of June 23, 1874, c. 459, re-established by the act of June 5, 1882, c. 195, and continued by the act of June 3,…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The act of Congress approved June 5, 1882, (22 U. S. Sts. at Large, 98,) provided in § 1, “ that the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims, created by chapter four hundred and fifty-nine of the laws of the Forty-third Congress, is hereby re-established, in the manner and with the obligations, duties, and powers imposed and conferred by said chapter, except as changed or modified by this act”; in § 2, “that the number of judges for said court, to be nominated and appointed in the mode directed by section two of said chapter, shall be three, each to receive the compensation provided by…
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