Express Co. v. Kountze Brothers
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska. The case, which involved two distinct subjects, one of jurisdiction and the other of merits, was thus: I. Ns to the matter of jurisdiction. This again involved two different points.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Nebraska. The case, which involved two distinct subjects, one of jurisdiction and the other of merits, was thus: I. Ns to the matter of jurisdiction. This again involved two different points. An act of 1847* provided, that in all cases of Federal character and jurisdiction commenced.in the Superior Courts of the Territory of Florida, and the Court of Appeals of that Territory, after the 3d of March, 1845, “in which judgments or decreeawere rendered, or which are claimed to have been since pending there, in the records and proceedings thereof, and…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr, Justice DAYIS
delivered the opinion of the court.
Before proceeding to consider the merits of this controversy, it is necessary to dispose of the point of jurisdiction which is raised.
It is urged that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction over the cause, because there was no authority to transfer it. This depends on the construction of the acts of Congress relating to the subject.
On the admission of a new State into the Union, it be comes necessary to provide not only for the judgments and. decrees of the Territorial courts, but also for their unfinished business. In recognition of this…
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