United States v. City of Chicago
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up, on a certificate of division in opinion, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Illinois.
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This case came up, on a certificate of division in opinion, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Illinois. In 1839, soon after the decision of the Supreme Court in Wilcox v. Jackson, 13 Pet. 498, deciding that southwest fractional quarter-section ten, township thirty-nine north, range fourteen east, in the Chicago land district, having been selected and used for military purposes, was hot subject to preemption, the Secretary of War, in virtue of the authority vested in hita, directed the sale of a portion thereof. The act under which the Secretary of-War derived…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
This case comes before us on a certificate of a division of opinion between the judges of the.Circuit Court in the-District of Illinois.
A preliminary question has. arisen as to our jurisdiction, which first deserves attention.
The proceedings in the court below were a bill, filed on the 19th of April, 1845, by the United States against the city of Chicago, to obtain an injunction not to lay out. certain streets through land belonging to the United States, which the city was preparing to open.
Before the return day a temporary injunction was issued, and when the term arrived, a motion was made…
Also in this document: Dissent.
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