Senior v. Pierce
U.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Iowa
This cause is now before the court upon the application of the plaintiff to attach said Frank Pierce for contempt. The alleged contempt consists in the refusal of said Pierce to deliver to the United States marshal, in obedience to the command of a writ of replevin issued in said cause, certain spirituous liquors, valued at about $6,000, which said Pierce had seized under the Iowa liquor law.
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This cause is now before the court upon the application of the plaintiff to attach said Frank Pierce for contempt. The alleged contempt consists in the refusal of said Pierce to deliver to the United States marshal, in obedience to the command of a writ of replevin issued in said cause, certain spirituous liquors, valued at about $6,000, which said Pierce had seized under the Iowa liquor law. The property in question was seized by said Pierce by virtue of a warrant issued by a j'ustice of the peace of Polk county. From the decision and judgment of the justice an appeal had been taken to the…
1Opinion of the CourtLove, J.
We live under two separate and distinct governments. In this respect our situation is peculiar, since there is not, perhaps, under the sun, another people subject to the rule of more than one government. While neither of the governments over us is absolutely sovereign, each is clothed with certain sovereign powers, to be exercised within the limits of the fundamental law, and each is supreme within its proper sphere. One of the most difficult problems in our polity has always been to define the limits of our two governments and keep each in its true orbit. There are, in this dual system, two…
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