Taaks v. Schmidt

Leonard, Justice.

The defendants, John W. Schmidt, Ger-hard Jansen and Edward Yonder Heydt, are each consuls of different foreign governments, accredited to this country; and by virtue of their offices the plaintiff is barred from the right of maintaining an action against them in any state court.

It is not necessary to consider how far a state court is bound to exercise its authority to restore a foreign consul to any property or rights, in the possession of which he has been disturbed by the operation of an injunction order inadvertently granted, when the court were ignorant of the fact that…