Georgia v. Stanton
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a bill filed April 15,1867, in this court, invoking the exercise of its original jurisdiction, against Stanton, Secretary of War; Grant, General of the Army, and Pope, Major-General, assigned to the command of the Third Military District, consisting of the States of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama (a district organized under the Acts of Congress of the 2d March, 1867, entitled “ An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” and an act of…
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This was a bill filed April 15,1867, in this court, invoking the exercise of its original jurisdiction, against Stanton, Secretary of War; Grant, General of the Army, and Pope, Major-General, assigned to the command of the Third Military District, consisting of the States of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama (a district organized under the Acts of Congress of the 2d March, 1867, entitled “ An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel States,” and an act of the 23d of the same month supplementary thereto), for the purpose of restraining the defendants from carrying into…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE:
Without being able to yield my assent to the grounds stated in the opinion just read for the *78dismissal of the complainant’s bill, I concur fully in the conclusion that the case made by the bill, is one of which this court has no jurisdiction.
Bill dismissed for want of Jurisdiction.
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