Scott v. Jones
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by a writ of .error, issued under me twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act, from the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan. It was an ejectment brought in the Circuit Court for the county of Wayne, State of Michigan (State.court), by the Detroit Young Men’s-Society against the plaintiffs in error, to recover lot No: 56, in section’ one, in the city of Detroit.
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This case was brought up by a writ of .error, issued under me twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act, from the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan. It was an ejectment brought in the Circuit Court for the county of Wayne, State of Michigan (State.court), by the Detroit Young Men’s-Society against the plaintiffs in error, to recover lot No: 56, in section’ one, in the city of Detroit. On-the. tried of thé caus.e, in December, 1841, the plaintiffs below offered in' evidence, — 1. An act of incorporation by the legislature of the State of Michigan, passed on the 26th of March, 1836,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
I am instructed by the court to say its opinion in this case is, that it possesses no jurisdiction over the questions submitted. No other point is decided by us, though others of much interest are involved ih the merits respecting the due organizatiop of States, under our political system, and tjie effect which their admission into the Union by Congress has on the validity of their previous proceedings.
Some contend, that when" these matters properly arise in a cause, they are mere political questions, — to’ be settled by the action of the other departments of .the government, and noi to be…
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