Legal Opinion

Ogle v. Lee

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 15, 1804PublishedCited by 1 opinion

This cause came up to this court, upon a question on which the opinions of the judges of the Circuit Court were opposed. It was made a question, whether this court would consider the whole case, or only the question upon which the court below divided.

1Opinion of the Court

The Court

were unanimously of opinion, that they could only consider the single question upon which the judges below divided in opinion;1 but that the parties will not be precluded from bringing a writ of error upon *16the final judgment below; and the whole cause will then be before the court. A court may at any time reverse an interlocutory decree.

The case was afterwards settled by the parties.

If the whole case be sent up, the cause will be remanded. Saunders v. Gould, 4 Pet. 392; Harris v. Elliott, 10 Id. 25: Adams v. Jones, 12 Id. 207; Dennistoun v. Stewart, 18 How. 565; Daniels v. Rock…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Saunders v. GouldSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
  2. Jonathan W. Nesmith v. Thomas C. SheldonSupreme Court of the United States · 1848
  3. A. Dennistoun & Co. v. StewartSupreme Court of the United States · 1856

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Ogle v. LeeSupreme Court of the United States · 1804

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