Ahart v. Young

Jurisdiction means power, and cases involving questions of jurisdiction are most serious, because they touch the foundation of a free society — the power of the sovereign, through her courts, to select the winner of a dispute between otherwise free parties, and, once selection is made, to coerce compliance with the decision; but, sometimes cases dealing with jurisdiction have the raciest facts. This is such a case.

Never Doubt, a thoroughbred stallion racehorse, was registered with The Jockey Club, a New York not-for-profit corporation. That registration made Never Doubt a racehorse, for no…