Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Norton

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 9, 1883PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

108 U.S. 237

2 S.Ct. 490

27 L.Ed. 709

Ex parte NORTON, Petitioner.

April 2, 1883.

C. Case and

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to the circuit court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, requiring that court to take jurisdiction of, and hear and determine, an appeal by the petitioner, Emery E. Norton, from a decree of the district court of that district.

The case as presented shows that Norton, being assignee in bankruptcy of Govy Hood, filed in the district court a bill in equity against Hood, the bankrupt, John Asberry, sheriff of the parish of East Carroll, and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ex parte NortonSupreme Court of the United States · 1883

3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Keystone Manganese & Iron Co. v. MartinSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
  2. Stauth v. BrownSupreme Court of Kansas · 1987
  3. Spencer v. SmithCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1912
  4. Merriman v. Chicago & E. I. R.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1894
  5. East Coast Cedar Co. v. People's Bank of BuffaloCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1901

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