Manning v. French
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Motion to dismiss or affirm. The case, as stated by the court in its opinion, was as follow's.
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ERROR TO THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Motion to dismiss or affirm. The case, as stated by the court in its opinion, was as follow's. Jerome F. Manning brought an action of tort in the Superior Court of Massachusetts against James Harlan of Iowa, Andrew S. Draper of New York, and Asa French pf Massachusetts, to recover damages for being prevented from acting as an attorney and counsellor in or before the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims of the United States, or in relation to any matter of business pending 'therein, by the defendants, who “falsely pretended to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Mu. Chief Justice Fulleé
delivered the opinion of the court.
Jurisdiction to review the final judgment rendered in this case cannot be maintained upon the ground of the denial by the state courts of any title, right, privilege, or immunity claimed under the Constitution, or some treaty, or statute of, or commission held or authority exercised under, the United States, as the plaintiff in error set up and claimed none such. Spies v. Illinois, 123 U. S. 131, 181; Chappell v. Bradshaw, 128 U. S. 132. And the decision that the defendant was not liable in damages, because in concurring in the order…
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