United States v. Thompson
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Court of. Appeals of the State of Maryland. In the progress of a suit pending in the Circuit Court of Queen Anne’s County, Md., to settle the affairs of McFreely & Hopper, an insolvent partnership, and to collect and apply the assets of the. firm to the payment of its liabilities, the United States presented a petition for the allowance of a claim in their favor, and its payment out of the fund in court in preference to other creditors, on account of the…
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Error to the Court of. Appeals of the State of Maryland. In the progress of a suit pending in the Circuit Court of Queen Anne’s County, Md., to settle the affairs of McFreely & Hopper, an insolvent partnership, and to collect and apply the assets of the. firm to the payment of its liabilities, the United States presented a petition for the allowance of a claim in their favor, and its payment out of the fund in court in preference to other creditors, on account of the priority given to debts due the United States by the act of March 8, 1797. 1 Stat. 515, sect. 5; Rev. Stat. sect. 3466. This…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
of the court.
Judgments in the State courts against the United States cannot be brought; here for re-examination upon a writ of error, except in cases where the same relief would be afforded to private parties. It was conceded upon the argument in behalf of the United States, that the question of priority of payment, under the laws of the United States, was not decided in the court below, because it was found that there was- no debt due. With this concession, which could not be avoided, it is difficult to see what Federal question there is in the record.
It appears affirmatively that the…
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