Ex Parte State Insurance Company
Supreme Court of the United States
On petition for a mandamus to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Alabama, at Mobile. The case was thus: Between December 14th, 1819, when Alabama was admitted into the Union, and the 3d of March, 1873, various statutes were passed fixing the judicial districts of the State and the powers of District- Courts established for them.
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On petition for a mandamus to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Alabama, at Mobile. The case was thus: Between December 14th, 1819, when Alabama was admitted into the Union, and the 3d of March, 1873, various statutes were passed fixing the judicial districts of the State and the powers of District- Courts established for them. Among them were two acts, one of March 10th, 1824,* and the other of February 6th, 1839,† whose conjoint effect ap- ' parently was to divide the State into three districts, a northern, a middlé (this latter embracing Barbour County, one of the counties of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
Much argument is addressed to us on the construction of the act of March 3d, 1873, concerning the District and Cir- cult Courts of Alabama, especially whether by that act the Circuit Court sitting at Mobile has circuit court jurisdiction over the whole State or not. In the view we take of the present case it is not necessary for us to decide that question.
Prior to that time the District Court of the United States for the Middle District of Alabama was a court invested with circuit court powers. Among those powers, in our opinion, was that of receiving and exercising jurisdiction over cases…
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