Dinsman v. Wilkes
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Columbia, holden in and for the county of Washington. It was the same case which is reported in 7 Howard, 89. It was then Wilkes v. Dinsman, and this court, having reversed the judgment of the Circuit Court, sent it down to be tried' again.
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This case was brought up by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Columbia, holden in and for the county of Washington. It was the same case which is reported in 7 Howard, 89. It was then Wilkes v. Dinsman, and this court, having reversed the judgment of the Circuit Court, sent it down to be tried' again. Upon such new trial, the verdict'was for Wilkes, and Dinsman brought-it up again upon the exceptions to the rulings of the court. - The statement of the evidence offered by the plaintiff in- the Circuit Court was the same, in substance, with tha,t…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This cáse was. before the court on a former occasion, and is fully reported in 7 How. 89. The present defendant in error was then the plaintiff, and the judgment of the Circuit Court was reversed, and a venire de novo awarded, the new trial to be governed by the principles decided by this court. Upon the trial under the mandate the judgment was in favor of the present defendant, and the plaintiff thereupon brought this writ of. error. The testimony, so far as the questions of law upon the merits are concerned, is substantially the same with that offered at the former trial.
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