Johnson v. Bishop

MILLEB, Circuit Justice.

If the matters set forth in the plaintiff’s petition are true, which we are here to assume, the title to the goods attached vested in the assignee as soon as the assignment to him was executed. And with this title he acquired a right of immediate possession. This possession he could recover in a court of justice. But to what court should he apply? Had this property been in the possession of a party who could not shelter himself behind the -jurisdiction of a court of law, undoubtedly the federal court would have had jurisdiction of the case. It would then have been…