Bank of the United States v. Martin

Marshall, Ch. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court. — This is a writ of error to a judgment rendered in the court of the United States for the district of Alabama, dismissing a suit brought by the Bank of the United States, in that court, for want of jurisdiction. Consequently, the jurisdiction of that coux’t presents the only question tobe considered.

The act, which establishes a district court in the state of Alabama, declares, that the judge thereof “ shall in all things have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which were by law given to the judge of the Kentucky district, under…