Nazro v. Cragin

(orally). The eleventh section of the judiciary act contains the provision that “no civil suit shall be brought before either of said courts against an inhabitant of the United States, by any original process in any other district than that whereof he is an inhabitant, or in which he may be found at the time of serving the writ.”

The jurisdiction of the district court over the defendant, who was neither a citizen of Iowa, nor found therein, cannot therefore be maintained unless by some subsequent act of congress repealing the above restriction. It is urged that jurisdiction in such cases is…