Ex Parte Royall
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEALS FROM AND ERROR TO THE ' CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. On the 29th day of May, 1885, William L. Royall filed two petitions in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, each verified 'by oath, and addressed to the judges of that court. ■ In one of them he represented, in substance, that he was as citizen of the United States ; that, in June, 1884, as a represen-: tative of a citizen of New…
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APPEALS FROM AND ERROR TO THE ' CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA. On the 29th day of May, 1885, William L. Royall filed two petitions in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, each verified 'by oath, and addressed to the judges of that court. ■ In one of them he represented, in substance, that he was as citizen of the United States ; that, in June, 1884, as a represen-: tative of a citizen of New York — who was the owner of.'certain bonds issued by Virginia under the act approved.March 30, 1871, entitled “An act to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice HaelaN
After stating the case as above reported, he continued :
These cases come here under the act of March 3, 1885, ch. 353, 23 Stat. 437, which so.amends § 764 of the Revised Statutes as to give this court jurisdiction, upon appeal, to review the final decision of the Circuit Courts of the United States in certain specified- cases, including that of a writ of habeas corpus sued out in behalf of a person alleged to be restrained of his liberty in violation of the Constitution.
The first question to be considered is whether the Circuit Courts have jurisdiction on habeas corpus to discharge from…
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